{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2164568960","doi":null,"title":"Response of firms to impending disruptive change","display_name":"Response of firms to impending disruptive change","publication_year":2013,"publication_date":"2013-04-25","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2164568960","mag":"2164568960"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23056","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23056","pdf_url":"http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03092013-162218/","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401870","display_name":"UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I69552723","host_organization_name":"University of Pretoria","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I69552723"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"Dissertation"},"volume":null,"type":"dissertation","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":[],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03092013-162218/","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5033322987","display_name":"Zithobile Patrick Toyo","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Zithobile Patrick Toyo","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5033322987"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":null,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":null,"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":null,"last_page":null},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11531","display_name":"Healthcare Systems and Reforms","score":0.31540000438690186,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2739","display_name":"Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/27","display_name":"Medicine"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11531","display_name":"Healthcare Systems and Reforms","score":0.31540000438690186,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2739","display_name":"Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/27","display_name":"Medicine"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/4","display_name":"Health Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13151","display_name":"Business Strategies and Innovation","score":0.225600004196167,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1408","display_name":"Strategy and Management"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/14","display_name":"Business, Management and Accounting"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14130","display_name":"Healthcare, Law, Governance, and Management Studies","score":0.20260000228881836,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1406","display_name":"Marketing"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/14","display_name":"Business, Management and Accounting"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/national-health-insurance","display_name":"national health insurance","score":0.8930000066757202},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/disruptive-change","display_name":"disruptive change","score":0.9120000004768372},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/health-sector","display_name":"health sector","score":0.7419999837875366},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/private-health-care-sector","display_name":"private healthcare sector","score":0.8529999852180481},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/firm-responses","display_name":"firm responses","score":0.43299999833106995},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/government-relations","display_name":"government relations","score":0.7239999771118164},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/capacity-building","display_name":"capacity building","score":0.6909999847412109},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/innovation","display_name":"innovation","score":0.7089999914169312},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/pharmaceutical-companies","display_name":"pharmaceutical companies","score":0.9110000133514404},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/private-hospitals","display_name":"private hospitals","score":0.9980000257492065},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/south-africa","display_name":"South Africa","score":0.8539999723434448}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144133560","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4830453","display_name":"Business","level":0,"score":0.39977067708969116}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"pmh:oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23056","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23056","pdf_url":"http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03092013-162218/","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401870","display_name":"UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I69552723","host_organization_name":"University of Pretoria","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I69552723"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"Dissertation"},{"id":"mag:2164568960","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/23056/dissertation.pdf?sequence=1","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":null}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23056","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23056","pdf_url":"http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03092013-162218/","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401870","display_name":"UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I69552723","host_organization_name":"University of Pretoria","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I69552723"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"Dissertation"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"score":0.8199999928474426,"display_name":"Good health and well-being","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/3"}],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":true,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2164568960.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2164568960.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":61,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W108306003","https://openalex.org/W115394847","https://openalex.org/W563478296","https://openalex.org/W1480553355","https://openalex.org/W1485916023","https://openalex.org/W1509896248","https://openalex.org/W1572092804","https://openalex.org/W1572151800","https://openalex.org/W1575678548","https://openalex.org/W1582018773","https://openalex.org/W1583499818","https://openalex.org/W1601562930","https://openalex.org/W1608400023","https://openalex.org/W1639702230","https://openalex.org/W1716056541","https://openalex.org/W1921676392","https://openalex.org/W1966324576","https://openalex.org/W1977402696","https://openalex.org/W1980538620","https://openalex.org/W1984517701","https://openalex.org/W1996505604","https://openalex.org/W2003899351","https://openalex.org/W2006873532","https://openalex.org/W2008269029","https://openalex.org/W2010864625","https://openalex.org/W2017650282","https://openalex.org/W2021708270","https://openalex.org/W2024210667","https://openalex.org/W2026303193","https://openalex.org/W2027944368","https://openalex.org/W2030194122","https://openalex.org/W2030508328","https://openalex.org/W2050520842","https://openalex.org/W2059813301","https://openalex.org/W2061977616","https://openalex.org/W2063570851","https://openalex.org/W2065537255","https://openalex.org/W2089402107","https://openalex.org/W2093093999","https://openalex.org/W2093322402","https://openalex.org/W2095381186","https://openalex.org/W2095952180","https://openalex.org/W2098811322","https://openalex.org/W2101915188","https://openalex.org/W2103679043","https://openalex.org/W2109811302","https://openalex.org/W2119565407","https://openalex.org/W2119885215","https://openalex.org/W2123709218","https://openalex.org/W2125447326","https://openalex.org/W2141226948","https://openalex.org/W2144045596","https://openalex.org/W2144981092","https://openalex.org/W2147307405","https://openalex.org/W2154223120","https://openalex.org/W2156076652","https://openalex.org/W2158079010","https://openalex.org/W2161611374","https://openalex.org/W2163699497","https://openalex.org/W2178796986","https://openalex.org/W2895189975"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2417878197","https://openalex.org/W4413168754","https://openalex.org/W1759681462","https://openalex.org/W7220780678","https://openalex.org/W7220762386","https://openalex.org/W967618809","https://openalex.org/W2133622414","https://openalex.org/W2810677685","https://openalex.org/W7082323388","https://openalex.org/W4232683912"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"The":[0],"impending":[1,66],"NHI":[2,44],"will":[3,45],"cause":[4],"a":[5,92],"disruptive":[6,67],"change":[7],"in":[8,13,30,39,78,102,138,146,152,164],"the":[9,19,27,31,43,55,103,106,120,131,135,139,155,165],"health":[10,33],"care":[11,34],"industry":[12],"South":[14],"Africa.":[15],"For":[16],"that":[17,71,119],"reason":[18],"affected":[20],"firms":[21,59,96,123],"need":[22],"to":[23,53,65,100],"prepare":[24],"themselves.":[25],"Furthermore":[26],"current":[28,166],"stakeholders":[29],"private":[32,112],"sector":[35],"are":[36],"feeling":[37],"disenfranchised":[38],"terms":[40,147],"of":[41,49,57,94,122,148],"how":[42],"turn":[46],"out.The":[47],"aim":[48],"this":[50],"study":[51],"was":[52,72,74],"understand":[54],"response":[56],"existing":[58],"whose":[60],"existence":[61],"is":[62,134],"threatened":[63],"due":[64],"change.The":[68],"research":[69],"method":[70],"used":[73],"qualitative":[75],"and":[76,114,150],"exploratory":[77],"design.":[79],"It":[80],"involved":[81],"one":[82,84],"on":[83],"semi":[85],"structured":[86],"interviews":[87],"with":[88,130,154],"13":[89],"respondents":[90],"from":[91,105],"total":[93],"7":[95],"who":[97,133],"were":[98],"selected":[99],"participate":[101],"study,":[104],"following":[107],"business":[108],"groups:":[109],"pharmaceutical":[110],"firms,":[111],"hospitals,":[113],"medical":[115],"distributors.The":[116],"findings":[117],"revealed":[118],"majority":[121],"would":[124,143,159],"respond":[125],"by":[126],"strengthening":[127],"their":[128,161],"relations":[129],"government":[132],"key":[136],"stakeholder":[137],"NHI.":[140,156],"Secondly,":[141],"they":[142,158],"build":[144],"capacity":[145],"resources":[149],"capabilities":[151],"line":[153],"Lastly,":[157],"innovate":[160],"value":[162],"offering":[163],"market":[167],"or":[168],"new":[169],"markets.":[170]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-11-07T11:25:07.637180","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}