Many health systems now use networks as governance structures. Network 'macroculture'is
the complex of artefacts, espoused values and unarticulated assumptions through which …

Purpose–The largest organisation in the western world, the UK National Health Service
(NHS), might be best viewed as a network of interdependent organisations. However, the …

This qualitative case study examines how the tension between control and collaboration is
managed in the relationship between a Network Administrative Organization (NAO) and the …

Networks have been celebrated for some time as vital to the operation of fluid, post-
bureaucratic and knowledge-based organisations. However, much of the literature on …

Governance, how decisions are made and implemented, is an important part of health care
and health policy. It is also the subject of a large and often confusing literature. This chapter …

How does leadership emerge and function when multiple health care organizations come
together to form a network? In this qualitative comparative case study, we draw on …

Purpose Policymakers often mandate and regulate the network formation to tackle complex
issues of public interest. However, the imposed legal, procedural, and political constraints …

Background Clinical networks have been established to improve patient outcomes and
processes of care by implementing a range of innovations and undertaking projects based …

Since the mid-1990s inter-organizational networks have become more common in health
systems, having developed for dealing with problems which are complex, longterm …

In his commentary on the taxonomy of health systems and networks that we originally
developed in Bazzoli et al.(1999) and updated through Dubbs et al.(2004), Luke raises …