Healthcare Strategy: In Pursuit of Competitive Advantage
Roice D. Luke, PhD Patrick M. Plummer, DBA Stephen L. Walston, PhD
Book Description
With a focus on the five P's of competitive advantage—power, position, pace, potential, performance—this text selectively applies and adapts the concepts and methods of strategy analysis to the unique constraints and realities of the healthcare industry.
It also discusses how to access market structure, an activity that is critically important in today's competitive enviornment.
Instructor Resources: Chapter-specific teaching tips, study questions, and PowerPoint slides. To see a sample, click the link in the right-hand navigation bar.
What Readers Are Saying
"This is truly a masterpiece. Conceptually solid, coherent and integrated, nicely organized, very interesting (I was drawn to it, constantly wondering what was coming next), practical and useful (every time I needed an example or illustration, one was provided), and well written. It forwards a great paradigm for thinking rigorously and creatively about strategy, markets, and competitive advantage."
—Dennis D. Pointer, PhD, Austin Ross Professor Department of Health Services School of Public Health and Community Medicine University of Washington
"Business strategy (finally) comes to healthcare. Roice Luke and his colleagues produce the definitive work on competitive advantage in healthcare, successfully combining classical market structure theory and the resource-based view of strategy with an innovative web site application tool. The result is comprehensive, intellectually challenging, cutting edge, and eminently practical. This work sets the standard for healthcare strategy students and practitioners."—James W. Begun, PhD, James A. Hamilton Term Professor Department of Healthcare Management Carlson School of Management
“This is one of the best books I have ever read on healthcare strategy. It is educational, practical, and interesting.”—Doody Review Service
