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The article is devoted to strategic management system improvement in the sphere of health care in conditions of emergencies by the example of Ukraine. Pandemic conditions and military actions substantiate the relevance of the research. The study aims to improve the system of health care system's strategic management in emergencies. The research's novelty is proposing a new model of interaction between emergency response bodies. An analysis of foreign experience, scientific literature, and normative regulation was carried out to find problem solutions. Methods of analysis, synthesis, induction, and deduction allow to find weaknesses of strategic management and offer ways of liquidation. The study results show the current state of strategic management in healthcare by systematizing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and conducting a SWOT analysis. As a result, weaknesses of the system are identified, and directions for their elimination are proposed. For this purpose, it is necessary to change the work of the Cabinet of Ministers and Health Service with the Emergency Services. The practical value of the research consists in the possibility of application of its results in forming new, more effective strategic aims of public health system development in the case of military operations. HIGHLIGHTS m The article is devoted to strategic management system improvement in the sphere of health care in conditions of emergencies by the example of Ukraine. m The study results show the current state of strategic management in healthcare by systematizing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and conducting a SWOT analysis. © 2022 Economic Affairs. All rights reserved.
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Purpose: Survivability capital is a unique resource resulting from the “familiness” constituting an inherent feature of family firms. Familiness represents the ability of family members to reinforce the financial and non-financial resources of businesses facing threats to their economic existence. This work proposes and examines various dimensions of the survivability capital construct, verifying whether family firms expecting deterioration of their economic situation or problems with survival due to the COVID-19 crisis can mobilise sufficient capital to survive. Design/methodology/approach: This article provides empirical evidence based on a cross-sectional online survey of 167 Polish family firms, conducted at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The method (scale) of survivability capital measurement was elaborated and validated using principal component analysis (PCA) and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA). Next, the mobilisation of the different dimensions of survivability capital was examined using PLS-SEM modelling. Findings: The survivability capital of family firms is composed of two dimensions: internal (based on directly involved family members) and external (based on not directly involved family members). Family firms facing crisis-induced deterioration of the economic situation engage its internal component. Subsequently, family firms forecasting decreasing probability of survival during a crisis try to engage both the internal and the external components of survivability capital. Such behaviour is in line with the resource-based view as well as with the sustainable family business theory. Originality/value: To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is one of the first studies to examine analytically the survivability capital construct. While previous studies mentioned the existence of survivability capital, this study attempts to introduce its various dimensions and test the mobilisation of survivability capital during the COVID-19 crisis. © 2021, Beata Agnieszka Żukowska, Olga Anna Martyniuk and Robert Zajkowski.