This paper seeks to concentrate on the question whether any parallels can be found
between the industrial sector and health care services with respect to the developments that …

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We consider firms in the context of their business ecosystems and explore how differences
in the ways in which firms are organized with respect to complementary activities affect their …

Background Stress has been categorized as an antecedent or stimulus, as a consequence
or response, and as an interaction. It has been studied from many different frameworks (or …

Organizational changes are costly ventures that too often fail to deliver the expected
outcomes. Psychological empowerment and affective commitment to change are proposed …

The United States health care system is plagued with quality problems. We draw on
management research to explain why it has been so difficult to improve quality of care …

Background US healthcare organizations are confronted with numerous and varied
transformational strategies promising improvements along all dimensions of quality and …

Background The translation of research into practices has been incomplete. Organizational
readiness for change (ORC) is a potential facilitator of effective knowledge translation (KT) …

Planned organizational change has a long history in formal organizations of all types. A
model of planned organizational change from the existing literature can be used to identify a …

Change management studies have emphasized the significance of an organization's
readiness for change and transformation and have recommended strategies to affect …