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Identifying health care stakeholders: a key to strategic implementation
Health Care Strategic Management
|August 8, 1987
Summary
Effective stakeholder management is crucial for healthcare strategic plan implementation. This study introduces a refined stakeholder definition and a framework for prioritizing stakeholder influence to ensure successful strategy execution.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Management
- Strategic Planning
- Organizational Behavior
Background:
- Increasing complexity of healthcare organizations necessitates robust stakeholder engagement.
- Traditional stakeholder models often lack operational utility for strategic implementation.
- Healthcare managers face challenges in navigating diverse stakeholder interests.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose a more operationally relevant definition of stakeholders in healthcare.
- To introduce a framework for assessing situational stakeholder importance.
- To emphasize the critical role of stakeholder management in strategic plan success.
Main Methods:
- Literature review of existing stakeholder models.
- Development of a novel stakeholder definition.
- Proposal of a situational evaluation framework for stakeholder assessment.
Main Results:
- A refined, narrower stakeholder definition is presented.
- A framework for assessing the relative importance of stakeholders is outlined.
- Situational evaluation is identified as key to successful strategy implementation.
Conclusions:
- Effective stakeholder management is indispensable for healthcare strategic plan success.
- The proposed framework offers a practical approach for healthcare managers.
- Prioritizing stakeholders based on situational relevance enhances strategic outcomes.