Networked forms of organizing in health care are increasingly viewed as an effective means
of addressing “wicked”, multifaceted health and societal challenges. This is because …

As the increasingly employed concept of “governmentality” refers to diverse ideas, the
authors present a state of the science assessment of its use in the study of healthcare …

Background Health care networks are widely used and accepted as an organizational form
that enables integrated care as well as dealing with complex matters in health care …

Although network governance has become increasingly popular in both research and
practice, its anticipated benefits do not always materialize. Although literature on network …

Research on health policy networks can be divided into two categories: policy
implementation networks that arrange for the supply and delivery of health services through …

Agents of government have increasingly used networks as policy tools to connect
organizations within and/or across public sector jurisdictions. This has been particularly …

Background Interorganizational networks in healthcare do not always attain their goals.
Existing models outline the factors that could explain poor network performance …

Over the last thirty years, scholars of health care organizations have been searching for
concepts and images to illuminate their underlying, and shifting, modes of organizing …

Objectives. To (a) assess how the original cluster categories of hospital‐led health networks
and systems have changed over time;(b) identify any new patterns of cluster configurations; …

Debates about the relative advantages of health systems versus more loosely structured
health networks have largely ignored issues of how these different organizational forms are …