Publication: Sustainability trends in public hospitals: efforts and priorities
Authors
Rodríguez Herrera, Rocío ; Svensson, Göran ; Wood, Greg
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Elsevier
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.101742
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
This document is the Accepted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Evaluation and Program Planning. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2019.101742
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine the previous and the current efforts and the priorities of sustainability initiatives in the public sector.
Design/Methodology/approach
This study has been conducted in one industry, overcoming contextual bias as a judgmental sampling was used to select the public hospitals that were studied. Only knowledgeable key informants were approached and used.
Findings
The examination of the previous and the current efforts and the priorities of the sustainability initiatives revealed in this study indicate the existence of different trends in the public hospitals studied.
Research limitations/implications
The results report the key trends that were disclosed in the public hospitals studied in their efforts towards sustainability. In particular, the results show that there appears to be a lack of guidelines and homogeneity in sustainability planning in public hospitals in Spain, accompanied by the near universal absence of the evaluation phase in respect to the outcomes of the sustainability initiatives that have been put in place in these organizations.
Managerial Implications
The multi-dimensional factors of sustainability initiatives provide managerial guidance to assess the previous and the current efforts and priorities. These factors also provide organizational guidance to assess the trends of an organization through time.
Originality/Value
This study contributes to a selection of factors regarding the previous and the current efforts and the priorities of sustainability initiatives applicable in public hospitals. It provides a multi-dimensional framework of factors that can be used in order to describe sustainability trends.
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Evaluation and Program Planning, 2020, Vol. 78 : 101742
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