What Is 5S-KAIZEN? Asian-African Transnational and Translational Community of Practice in Value Co-creation of Health Services

Abstract

This chapter examines some of the translational features of value co-creation by focusing on such managerial human activity systems as quality improvement, organizational learning, plan-do-check-act cycle, and cross-cultural diffusion of managerial systems of health services. By so doing this work descriptively analyzes some aspects of value co-creation in action research-based learning in health services administration.