Framing sustainable development through descriptive determinants in private hospitals. Orientation and organization

Abstract

Purpose:To frame the sustainable development in private hospitals, based on descriptive determinants of or-ientation and organization from the past to the present.Design/methodology/approach:Based on an inductive approach, judgmental sampling was used to target relevanthealth care organizations. Informants were assessed according to their knowledge of their organizations’sus-tainability initiatives.Findings:Report the main determinants of orientation and organization revealed in relation to the hospitals’pastand present sustainability initiatives, providing a foundation for describing their sustainable development.Research limitations/implications:Reveals a selection of descriptive determinants of sustainable development inprivate hospitals, all of which offers a basis for assessing whether the evolution of organizational sustainabilityinitiatives is major, minor or non-existent.Managerial implications:The sustainability orientation has changed from value-based initiatives to business-based ones. It has also resulted in the orientation changing from environmental initiatives to social ones, as wellas a change from reactive initiatives to proactive ones.Originality/value:Contributes to framing sustainable development through descriptive determinants in privatehealthcare organizations. It also divides these determinants into two categories, namely the orientation andorganization of sustainability initiatives