title: [Management practices in medium-sized private hospitals in São Paulo, Brazil].
abstract: Traditional management practices are sometimes considered merely a necessary condition for superior performance. Other resources and competencies with higher barriers to imitation are assumed to be potential sources of competitive advantage. This study describes and analyzes the effect of traditional management practices on the performance of medium-sized hospitals. Medium-sized companies frequently display the greatest differences in management practices, and only recently did the hospital sector seek ways to develop its competitiveness in the administrative arena. The results generally indicate that basic management practices can make differences in performance, offering support for the new practice-based view (PBV). Hospitals with the highest rate of adoption of practices had the highest occupancy rate, hospital-bed admissions, and accreditation. Lack of adoption of management practices by medium-sized hospitals limits their competitive capacity and can be viewed as a component of the so-called Brazil cost, but in this case an internal component.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Luiz Artur Ledur
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Brito
authors.affiliation: Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Ana Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Malik
authors.affiliation: Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Eliane
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brito
authors.affiliation: Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bulgacov
authors.affiliation: Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brasil.
authors.forename: Tales
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Andreassi
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016304:Hospitals, Private / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D036301:Qualitative Research