Examines the health care and hospital industries and their relation to entrepreneurial action and strategy. This work helps to recognize and address the often elusive phenomenon of successful strategic choice over environmental determinism, which is aided by quality strategic thinking and decisive entrepreneurial actions.

Part 1: The Changing Environment of the Health Care Industry Chapter 1:Perspectives on Strategic Thinking and Entrepreneurial Action in the Health Care Industry (John D. Blair, Myron D. Fottler, Eric W. Ford and G. Tyge Payne ) Chapter 2:Self interest and Opportunism in the Hospital Industry: A Historical Perspective (Barbara Bigelow and Margarete Arndt) Chapter 3:Four Future Scenarios of the Role of the Consumer in American Health Care and the Implications for Entrepreneurship (Gregory P. Shea and Bruce Gresh) Part 2: Strategic Thinking Chapter 4:Fit as Moderation and Matching: A Test of Strategy and Structure Congruence in Relationship to Performance (G. Tyge Payne, Justin L. Davis and John D. Blair) Chapter 5:Strategic Management of Internal Customers: Building Value through Human Capital and Culture (Howard L. Smith, J. Deane Waldman, Jacqueline N. Hood and Myron D. Fottler) Part 3: Entrepreneurial Action Chapter 6:High-Tech Entrepreneurship in the Health Care Industry: A Praxeological View of Stages (Robert Phillips and Keith Brigham) Chapter 7:The Entrepreneurial Process in Health Care: The Nashville Phenomenon (Sharon Topping, Jon C. Carr, Beth Woodard, Michael R. Burcham and Kina Johnson) Chapter 8:Entrepreneurship in the Boardroom: Board Roles in Managing Innovation and Risk (Richard A. Culbertson, Julia A. Hughes and Eric W. Ford) Chapter 9:The Performance Impact of Nursing Home Innovation: A Contingency Perspective (Jackie Zinn) Part 4: Integrating Strategy and Entrepreneurship Chapter 10:A Typology of Strategic Groups within Biotechnology IPOs (David R. Williams) Chapter 11:Strategic Entrepreneurship in the Health Care Industry: The Case of Wal-Mart (Myron D. Fottler and Donna Malvey)