Abstract:Background: Political and managerial reforms affect the health sector by translating into governance tensions. As identified in the public management literature, they come from the diffusion of management principles and practices from the business world. They manifest at four levels: institutional, organisational, managerial and instrumental. The objective of this research is to understand how these tensions express healthcare institutions with different status. Methods: We conduct a contrasting case study exp… Show more
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