Budgetary participation and organizational performance in Chinese public hospitals: facilitation or inhibition?

This article reaches the following conclusions: (1) There is a positive correlation between budget participation and non-healthcare performance. (2) At the objective level, there was no significant correlation between budget participation and self-efficacy. From a subjective perspective, budget participation, planning self-efficacy, and interpersonal communication and coordination self-efficacy were significantly and positively correlated. (3) Budget participation could have an effect on NHP through planning self-efficacy, interpersonal communication and coordination self-efficacy The innovations of this article are: firstly, this article reasonably confirms the positive relationship between budget participation and organizational performance of public hospitals in China, providing useful references or subsequent research and other national and regional studies. Second, it analyzes the impact of budget participation on organizational performance based on a new perspective of Latour's Actor-Network Theory. This article is among the first to apply ANT in the context of hospital budgeting, offering novel theoretical insights. Finally, it uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods to analyze the data.