Public private partnership in Italian health care management An organizational matury assessment model

DOI: 10.5176/2251-3833_GHC14.34

Authors: Marcello Martinez and Caterina Galdiero

Abstract: This work aims to analyze a specific phenomenon of innovation in health management: public private partnerships within the Italian healthcare sector. The object of the study is to measure the degree of organizational maturity (OM) of the forms of public-private partnerships (PPP) analyzing and measuring key managerial processes, in terms of innovation in meeting the partnership‘s goals/targets. The analysis is based on the identification of key processes relevant to the management of partnerships, to check which systems of governance are able to meet different stakeholder interests. We therefore built a conceptual standard for analysis of the OM through a field survey based on visits, participant observation, analysis of documents and semi-structured interviews with the management.

Keywords: health care management, public private partnership,organizational forms