Jari Vuori

Jari Vuori is a professor at University of Eastern Finland. He is currently Head of Health Management Sciences at the Department of Health Policy and Management, where he is responsible for research and the program of Phd students. He has been a visiting lecturer and scholar in Europe (University of Warwick), USA (Georgia Tech), and Japan (Nihon University). His research focuses mainly on the differences between public and private organizations and sectors at macro-and micro levels. His research group, PUBPRI, focuses on comparative issues concerning public, private, and non-profit service delivery, efficiency, and effectiveness. In addition Dr. Vuori is interested in comparative public policy issues and their methodological configuration in the global setting. His educational and scientific background stems from public management, business administration, and economics.

Publications

On the Genealogy of Public and Private: Beyond Market and State to the World of Pluralism
On the Genealogy of Public and Private: Beyond Market and State to the World of Pluralism
Jari Vuori, Marika Kylänen. © 2014. 21 pages.
Since the late 1990s, the literature of public-private management and publicness have increased, but the genealogy of public-private in a frame of pluralistic definitions has not...
Exploring Theory for Citizens’ Preferences in Health Policy: The Contribution of Health Policy Cultures to Understanding the Roles of Public and Private Health Service Providers
Exploring Theory for Citizens’ Preferences in Health Policy: The Contribution of Health Policy Cultures to Understanding the Roles of Public and Private Health Service Providers
Marika Kylänen, Jari Vuori, Pauline Allen. © 2012. 20 pages.
Preferences have been analyzed extensively in health care, but few studies have examined how culture driven preference formation may impact on resource allocation decisions in...
International Journal of Public and Private Healthcare Management and Economics (IJPPHME)
International Journal of Public and Private Healthcare Management and Economics (IJPPHME)
Jari Vuori. Est. 2011.
The International Journal of Public and Private Healthcare Management and Economics (IJPPHME) takes an interdisciplinary look at public and private healthcare organizations...
Towards Knowledge Intensive Inter-Organizational Systems in Healthcare
Towards Knowledge Intensive Inter-Organizational Systems in Healthcare
Teemu Paavola, Pekka Turunen, Jari Vuori. © 2009. 12 pages.
The aim of this chapter is to share recent findings and understanding on how information systems can be better adopted to support new ways of work and improve productivity in...
Towards Knowledge Intensive Inter-Organizational Systems in Healthcare
Towards Knowledge Intensive Inter-Organizational Systems in Healthcare
Teemu Paavola, Pekka Turunen, Jari Vuori. © 2005. 14 pages.
The aim of this chapter is to share recent findings and understanding on how information systems can be better adopted to support new ways of work and improve productivity in...