Managing inter-organizational networks has been studied extensively, yet little attention has
been paid to what it means for organizations and their management to participate in multiple …

This paper examines the evolving role of volunteers and the voluntary sector in shaping
community responses to structural change in health care systems. It contributes to the …

The evidence is clear: the percentage of public services provided exclusively by government
bureaucracies is steadily shrinking (Salamon, 2002). Non-profit and for profit organizations …

Through a thematic analysis on major themes researched in network governance and
collaborative governance, this paper identifies the entangled relationship between these two …

Governance is increasingly recognized as an important factor in health system performance,
yet conceptually and practically it remains poorly understood and subject to often vague and …

The thesis of this chapter is that the Health in All Policy innovation process is only complete
when national intentions have linked up with, and made a change to,'practice'at the local …

Approaches to involving the public in local health care decision making processes (and
analyses of these approaches) have tended to treat participation and publics uniformly in …

Network governance has received much attention within the fields of public administration
and policy in recent years, but surprisingly few books are designed specifically to help …

Networks have been described in terms of metaphors, governance arrangements and
structural or institutional arrangements. These different perspectives of networks come out of …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the enactment of collaborative governance
as a policy strategy in healthcare–in particular its effects in coordinating multiple …