Health care as a worldwide concern. insights on the Italian and Indian health care systems and PPPs from a VSA perspective

EuroMed Journal of Business

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 198-220

  Saviano, Marialuisa ^a   Parida, Ratri ^b   Caputo, Francesco ^a   Datta, Saroj Kumar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b VIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Approach (VSA); Health care system; Public private partnerships (PPP); Public private reports; Service science (SS); Service dominant logic (SDL); Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914163897     PISSN: 14502194     EISSN: 1758888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EMJB-10-2013-0050     Document Type: Article

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