Analysis of Transaction Cost Theory of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Services Provided by Outsourcing in Hospitals: A University Hospital Example
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As in the literature, hospitals often resort to outsource within the framework of transaction cost theory in service provision, also its observed in the result of this study; hospitals are getting profit via outsourcing services and they could focus on providing their basic ability ‘health services’. Transaction cost theory seeks to find the most productive boundaries of the enterprise by seeking an answer to the question of whether it is more appropriate for businesses to produce goods or services themselves or buy them from the market. "Basic ability" and "outsourcing" are two important interrelated concepts in businesses. One of the areas that is the most observed in Turkey is the outsource of imaging services. With this study, MRI services performed for 9 months in 2017 through outsourcing in a university hospital were examined within the framework of the transaction cost theory and it was determined that the hospital earned 511.798,18 TL profit. As in the literature, hospitals often resort to outsourcing within the framework of transaction cost theory in service provision, outsourcing services for their profit and they were also observed in the result of this study, where they could better focus on providing health services with basic ability.
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Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Sağlık Kurumları Yönetimi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
7 Ocak 2019
Gönderilme Tarihi
18 Nisan 2018
Kabul Tarihi
30 Ekim 2018
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2019 Cilt: 1 Sayı: 1
