dc.contributor.advisor |
Woods, Christine |
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dc.contributor.author |
Xu, Catherine |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2021-11-04T20:34:18Z |
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dc.date.available |
2021-11-04T20:34:18Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2021 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/2292/57243 |
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dc.description |
Full Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only. |
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dc.description.abstract |
Health systems are faced with mounting pressures from an ageing population, rising costs and a diminishing workforce. It is recognised that the path forward for health organisations involves increasing innovation and entrepreneurial activities to facilitate improvement, renewal and sustainability. Clinicians are uniquely positioned to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement, however not all will be able to recognise or act on such opportunities. With this in mind, the purpose of this thesis is to understand how clinicians engage in entrepreneurial activities at Waitematā District Health Board (WDHB).
There is substantial literature that explores the entrepreneurial process through a wide range of theoretical lenses. McMullen and Shepherd’s two-stage framework for entrepreneurial action recognises that knowledge and motivation are necessary for opportunity recognition and evaluation to occur before entrepreneurial action can take place. However, this framework does not explain how knowledge and motivation antecedents exactly enable entrepreneurial action to occur. This study responds to this limitation by integrating the entrepreneurial mindset construct into the entrepreneurial action framework to explore how clinicians at a public health organisation engage in entrepreneurial activities.
This research took an exploratory qualitative approach to capture the lived experiences of clinicians at WDHB through a single case study. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews, and subsequent analysis of the data was conducted abductively, moving between theory and themes that emerged from the data. Thematic analysis was conducted, and the findings were discussed and examined against existing literature, particularly through the lens of a situated entrepreneurial mindset.
The findings of this study indicated that the context-specific knowledge and motivation clinicians at WDHB possess intersect and interplay to form their entrepreneurial mindset. It is this mindset that enables them to activate the necessary cognitive processes for them to recognise and evaluate potential entrepreneurial opportunities for action. Furthermore, engaging in entrepreneurial action equips them with more knowledge and motivation assets to further develop and shape their entrepreneurial mindset. It is this experiential learning cycle that nurtures clinicians’ entrepreneurial mindset and incites entrepreneurial action, leading to increased innovation and improvement at WDHB. Additionally, this study highlighted that organisational factors have a role in nurturing clinicians’ entrepreneurial mindset and subsequent entrepreneurial action.
Through the extension of the entrepreneurial action model to include entrepreneurial mindset, this study provides a richer understanding of the entrepreneurial process within the healthcare organisation setting. |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Masters Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA |
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dc.rights |
Restricted Item. Full Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only. |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nz/ |
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dc.title |
Clinicians’ entrepreneurial mindset as the pathway to entrepreneurial action: a WDHB case study |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Bioscience Enterprise |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
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dc.date.updated |
2021-09-29T05:26:40Z |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: the author |
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dc.identifier.wikidata |
Q112957284 |
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