Dr. Gartland is an Associate Professor for Rockhurst University. He teaches classes in Strategy Analysis, International Business & Strategy, Managerial & International Economics, and Health Services Administration.

He is also the Program Cirriculum Coordinator of the School of Management's Health Care Leadership programs. Dr. Gartland teaches in all four of the Helzberg School of Management degree programs; undergraduate business administration, MBA, MBA in Health Care, and Executive MBA.

Although formally trained as an economist, Dr. Gartland is primarily interested in strategic analysis, international strategy, and globalization of services. He has written extensively on the health care industry and the brewing industry.

In addition, he consults with many companies on statistical and market research projects. He is affiliated with both Insightful Analytics and The Dochterman Group Healthcare Management Counsulting. Prior to academia, Dr. Gartland spent 12 years as a health care industry executive.

Dr. Gartland has been appointed a Fulbright Scholar for 2009-2010.

Research Interests

Industry Evolution and Dynamics

Competitive Analysis

Globalization of Health Services Delivery

Organizational Economics

International Strategy

Globalization of Trade in Services (GATS)

Economics of Strategy

The Health Services Industry

Brewing & Alcohol Beverage Industry

Education

University of Missouri- KC Ph.D. in Economics (specialty in Organizational Economics)
University of Missouri- KC M.A. in Economics
University of Kansas Graduate Studies in Health Services Administration
Baker University M.B.A in Business Administration
University of Kansas B.A. in Biology and Anthropology

Professional Affiliations

Academy of Management
American Economic Association

Recent Publications & Presentations

"Modularity, Path Dependency and the Offshoring of (Some) Physician Service (with M. Stack) in Hidden Dynamics of Path Dependency: Organizational and Institutional Path Processes, Edited by  G.Schreyögg and J. Sydow, Palgrave
Press. Forthcoming 2009.

"Market Architecture Evolution: Organizational Responses in the U.S. Health Care Industry" (with Stack), under review with the European Journal of Management.

"The Offshoring of Radiology: Myths and Realities" SAM Advanced Management Journal, vol. 72 no 1: 44-51, Jan-08.

" Path Dependency, Behavioral Lock-in and the International Market for Beer" Presented at the 2007 European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS), Vienna.

"Interdisciplinary Views of Sub-Optimal Outcomes: Path Dependence in the Social and Management Sciences", Journal of Socio-Economics, October 2005.

"The Repeal of Prohibition and the Resurgence of the National Breweries"(Co-authored with Martin Stack), Management Decision, Vol 43, June 2005.

"Outcomes in Physician Reimbursement Methods: The Impact of Capitation on Physician Organizations" (with Cathy Carroll), Journal Health Organization and Management, June 2004.

"Old Habits Die Hard" (with Bill Barnes and Martin Stack), Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 38, June 2004.

"Path Creation, Path Dependence, and Alternative Theories of the Firm", (with Martin Stack), Journal of Economic Issues, Vol 37, June 2003.

"Collaborative Graduate Education" (Elaine Hardy), Nursing Leadership Forum, April 2004 

"Development of Physician Leadership Competencies: Perceptions of Physician Leaders, Physician Educators and Medical Students (co-authored with Mindi McKenna and Perry Pungo), Journal of Health Administration Education, Vol. 22, March 2004.

"Defining and Developing Physician Leadership Competencies" (with Mindi McKenna) American College of Physician Executives, February 2004 issue.

"Health Care Forecast for Kansas City", Greater Kansas City Economic Forecast for 2003, 2004, 2005 & 2006.

"Behavioral Lock-in and EMRs", (with Martin Stack), under review by Journal of Socio-Economics