(Voluntary) Health Care Management in SMEs

Julia Brandl; Matthias Fink; Sascha Kraus

(Voluntary) Health Care Management in SMEs

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(Voluntary) Health Care Management in SMEs. / Brandl, Julia; Fink, Matthias; Kraus, Sascha.

In: International Journal of Business Research, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2008, p. 61-72.

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title = "(Voluntary) Health Care Management in SMEs",

abstract = "With reference to topical debates in which the lack of voluntary corporate health care programs in small and medium sized enterprises (SME) and the obstacles of their realization are pointed out, we analyze – by means of the resource based approach – to analyze to what extent there are differences in corporatehealth care activities according to company size. An analysis of work reports on corporate health care of 101 Austrian SMEs of different sectors which presented their health promotion programs from 1999 and 2005 serves an empirical basis (document analysis). In terms of the analysis of the derived quantitativedata, correlation and regression analyses have been used in order to compute the statistical results. Contrary to expectations, our findings indicate that smaller companies do not conduct less health care activities than larger enterprises.",

keywords = "Management studies, health care, voluntary, management, SMEs",

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AU - Brandl, Julia

AU - Fink, Matthias

AU - Kraus, Sascha

PY - 2008

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N2 - With reference to topical debates in which the lack of voluntary corporate health care programs in small and medium sized enterprises (SME) and the obstacles of their realization are pointed out, we analyze – by means of the resource based approach – to analyze to what extent there are differences in corporatehealth care activities according to company size. An analysis of work reports on corporate health care of 101 Austrian SMEs of different sectors which presented their health promotion programs from 1999 and 2005 serves an empirical basis (document analysis). In terms of the analysis of the derived quantitativedata, correlation and regression analyses have been used in order to compute the statistical results. Contrary to expectations, our findings indicate that smaller companies do not conduct less health care activities than larger enterprises.

AB - With reference to topical debates in which the lack of voluntary corporate health care programs in small and medium sized enterprises (SME) and the obstacles of their realization are pointed out, we analyze – by means of the resource based approach – to analyze to what extent there are differences in corporatehealth care activities according to company size. An analysis of work reports on corporate health care of 101 Austrian SMEs of different sectors which presented their health promotion programs from 1999 and 2005 serves an empirical basis (document analysis). In terms of the analysis of the derived quantitativedata, correlation and regression analyses have been used in order to compute the statistical results. Contrary to expectations, our findings indicate that smaller companies do not conduct less health care activities than larger enterprises.

KW - Management studies

KW - health care

KW - voluntary

KW - management

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JO - International Journal of Business Research

JF - International Journal of Business Research

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