Private healthcare entrepreneurship in a free-access public health system: what was the impact of COVID-19 public policies in Greece?

IF 1.5 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy Pub Date : 2022-02-17 DOI:10.1108/jepp-03-2021-0029

N. Apostolopoulos, P. Liargovas, Pantelis Sklias, I. Makris, Sotiris Apostolopoulos

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Abstract

PurposeThis paper aims to examine whether private healthcare entrepreneurship can flourish and overcome obstacles in cases of a free-access public health system and periods of strict public policies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the paper aims to illuminate the wider social role of private healthcare entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThis paper adopts a qualitative methodological strategy through 12 in-depth semi-structured interviews with the owners of diagnostic centres located in small Greek towns.FindingsPrivate healthcare entrepreneurship flourished and played a significantly positive social role in the context of a degraded public health sector, which lacked investments for more than ten years and was further depleted by its recent focus on COVID-19 incidents. This paper reveals that although public policies that aimed to deal with COVID-19 produced serious consequences, business activity adapted to the new circumstances.Research limitations/implicationsFuture research can combine the findings of this paper with the views of stakeholders, policymakers and social actors.Originality/valueThis paper's value lies in its efforts to expand our current knowledge regarding the impact of COVID-19 public policies on entrepreneurship.

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免费公共卫生系统中的私营医疗创业:COVID-19公共政策对希腊的影响是什么?

目的本文旨在研究在自由获取公共卫生系统和严格的公共政策时期（如新冠肺炎大流行），私人医疗创业是否能够蓬勃发展并克服障碍。此外，本文旨在阐明新冠肺炎大流行期间私营医疗创业的更广泛社会作用。设计/方法论/方法本文采用定性方法论策略，对希腊小镇诊断中心的所有者进行了12次深入的半结构化访谈。FindingsPrivate医疗保健创业蓬勃发展，并在公共卫生部门退化的背景下发挥了显著的积极社会作用。公共卫生部门十多年来一直缺乏投资，最近对新冠肺炎事件的关注使其进一步枯竭。本文揭示，尽管旨在应对新冠肺炎的公共政策产生了严重后果，但商业活动适应了新情况。研究局限性/含义未来的研究可以将本文的发现与利益相关者、政策制定者和社会行动者的观点相结合。原创/价值本文的价值在于努力扩大我们目前对新冠肺炎公共政策对创业的影响的认识。

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Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy ECONOMICS-

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3.70

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15.80%

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期刊介绍： Institutions – especially public policies – are a significant determinant of economic outcomes; entrepreneurship and enterprise development are often the channel by which public policies affect economic outcomes, and by which outcomes feed back to the policy process. The Journal of Entrepreneurship & Public Policy (JEPP) was created to encourage and disseminate quality research about these vital relationships. The ultimate aim is to improve the quality of the political discourse about entrepreneurship and development policies. JEPP publishes two issues per year and welcomes: Empirically oriented academic papers and accepts a wide variety of empirical evidence. Generally, the journal considers any analysis based on real-world circumstances and conditions that can change behaviour, legislation, or outcomes, Conceptual or theoretical papers that indicate a direction for future research, or otherwise advance the field of study, A limited number of carefully and accurately executed replication studies, Book reviews. In general, JEPP seeks high-quality articles that say something interesting about the relationships among public policy and entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and economic development, or all three areas. Scope/Coverage: Entrepreneurship, Public policy, Public policies and behaviour of economic agents, Interjurisdictional differentials and their effects, Law and entrepreneurship, New firms; startups, Microeconomic analyses of economic development, Development planning and policy, Innovation and invention: processes and incentives, Regional economic activity: growth, development, and changes, Regional development policy.