Strategic, operational, and marketing concerns of product-line management in health care.
Product-line management is a specialist strategy that focuses on specific products and markets. This article presents a typology of organizational approaches to implementing such a strategy and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each. Finally, the relationship of the control of marketing to product-line strategy and decentralization is discussed.
School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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