Transforming Healthcare through Entrepreneurial Innovations: An Institutional View

Although digitalization has profoundly changed the business logic in many industries, the healthcare sector still operates in many areas as in the pre-digital era. During recent years, humans have witnessed the rise of new digital health ventures, many of which have revolutionary ideas of how to tra...

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Published in:International journal of e-services and mobile applications Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 1 - 17
Main Author: Wallin, Arto
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Hershey IGI Global 01.01.2017
Subjects:
Actors
Businesspeople
Digital technology
Digitization
Ecosystems
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Health care
Health care industry
Influence
Innovations
Value creation
ISSN:1941-627X, 1941-6288
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Summary:Although digitalization has profoundly changed the business logic in many industries, the healthcare sector still operates in many areas as in the pre-digital era. During recent years, humans have witnessed the rise of new digital health ventures, many of which have revolutionary ideas of how to transform business logics in the organizational fields of healthcare. However, in many cases the institutional arrangements of the field are so strong that new ventures face major challenges in breaking the institutional elements that prevent the introduction and diffusion of service innovations. This paper studies the cases of five companies that aim to transform specific niche areas in healthcare and how these entrepreneurs perceive the influence of institutional elements on their actions.
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ISSN:1941-627X
1941-6288
DOI:10.4018/IJESMA.2017010101