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| Author: | Kurunmäki, L. |
| Title: | Professional vs. financial capital in the field of health care - Struggles for the redistribution of power and control |
| Journal: | Accounting, Organizations and Society
1999 : FEB, VOL. 24:2, p. 95-124 |
| Index terms: | Markets Health service Industries Control Economic theory Finland Europe |
| Freeterms: | Market positioning Accounting procedures |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Like all fields of social life, also the field of health care is a site of continuous games for power and control. This paper applies the conceptual tools of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, particularly the notions of field and capital, to analyze the diverse roles, and partially divergent objectives of the various institutions and individuals involved in the functions of financing, production, and consumption of health services. The expectations associated with the transition to market based control mechanisms in the field of Finnish health care, and the experiences of those directly involved in this transition are analyzed. The nature and implications of the process of transition from a planning allocation system to a competition based resource allocation system are studied on the basis of extensive interviews and observations conducted in one university hospital and two central hospitals in Finland. |
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