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This paper explores which are the criteria that the agents uses for the determination of the governance forms of the interchange of health services between insurers and providers of in the in Bogotá. The study is done based upon poisoning perspective of strategic management, the transaction costs economics, the contingency theory and the institutional theory. The results showed that the criteria more relevant in the decision making about the governance forms of the economic interchange are those related with transaction costs, that expresses in the need of reduction of conflict between the agents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to study the limits and the relations between insurers and providers of health services in the contribution-based health care system in Bogotá, as well as to link the ways in which the exchange of health services is set up with the results perceived by providers. The research is rooted theoretically in transaction cost economics. Seventeen (17) health service providers were included in the empirical component of the study. We have found three basic forms of economic exchange: Market cooperation, hierarchical market, and potential cooperation. The hierarchical market shows inferior results compared to potential cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is identify the main reasons for which the providers of health services in Bogotá outsource some of their services. The framework that supports the study is based on the central concept of developing core competences in the provision of services. The empirical component of the study involved 35 providers, public and private, of various levels of complexity. The main result is that the main reason for which hospitals use outsourcing is to reduce costs, and the second reason is the advantage that specialized firms have in certain areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]