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Description

If you think corporate governance has nothing to do with you, this book was written for you. Before you dismiss corporate governance as something for executives and board members, answer these questions:  Why do policies that look right on paper sometimes fail where it matters most in practice? What truly determines whether a healthcare organization performs as intended: leadership, culture, structure, or the systems designed to keep it in control? Corporate Governance in Public Healthcare is a book that presents each of these topics sequentially. Rather than treating governance as a collection of policies, committees, and regulations, this book looks beneath these formal mechanisms to explore the organizational conditions that allow governance to function effectively in practice. Drawing on a conceptual and comparative perspective, it brings these dimensions together into an integrated perspective on governance in public healthcare. The book targets healthcare leaders, policy-makers, administrative managers, researchers, academics, and postgraduate students. Because good governance is not defined by how many policies an organization has. It is defined by what happens when those policies are put into practice.