Abstract
This article examines Hong Kong's experience in modernizing and corporatizing public healthcare governance in order to enhance management autonomy and service efficiency, against the background of a previous regime of centralized departmental control and amid the worldwide trend of new public management. The reform, culminating in the establishment of a hospital authority, is found to be wrought with intense intra-bureaucratic conflict, as well as rivalries between professional and administrative bureaucrats, between professionals of different sectors, and between medical and para-medical providers. Instead of breaking up traditional professional monopoly and opening up the system to non-medical general management, corporatization has resulted in an unplanned entrenchment and re-empowerment of medical professional power. © 2002 Taylor & Francis Ltd.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 343-365 |
| Journal | Public Management Review |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2002 |
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Research Keywords
- Corporatization
- Healthcare finance
- Medical managerialism
- Power
- Professional
- Public hospital governance
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