Document Type
Chapter of Book
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
This chapter applies Clayton Christensen's model of organizational innovation to Jewish contexts. It observes a parallel between the many challenges that currently confront U.S. healthcare and American Jewry: a mismatch in the skills acquired by professionals and the needs expressed by the broader public; expensive institutions with high fixed costs that are struggling to provide value and maintain sustainable revenues; a failure to respect individual autonomy and cultural mores; and a disenfranchised public that suffers from high costs and unmet demand for meaningful services. It then applies Christensen's adapted model for the healthcare sector to American Jewish institutions, suggesting reforms and articulating a vision of Jewish institutional change.
Citation
Barak Richman & Daniel Libenson, Right-Skilling: Rabbis and the Rabbinic Role for a New Century, in Keeping Faith in Rabbis: A Community Conversation on Rabbinic Education 30-46 (Hayim Herring & Ellie Roscher eds., 2014)
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Organizational change, Organizational effectiveness, Leadership—Religious aspects—Judaism, Institutional economics
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Educational Sociology Commons, Health Policy Commons, Higher Education Commons, Jewish Studies Commons, Law Commons, Work, Economy and Organizations Commons
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/3598