Keeping the turf (wars) trimmed.

Turf wars in radiology: Need for symbiotic relationships

Over the past few decades, radiology as a specialty has seen tremendous growth, which has been accompanied by encroachment on imaging modalities by nonradiologists. Various specialists have been competing with radiologists for imaging and interventional procedures related to their specialties, and in few cases have completely taken over the imaging and interventions. These turf wars have led to...

Turf wars: experimental tests for alternative stable states in a two-phase coastal ecosystem.

Alternative stable states have long been thought to exist in natural communities, but direct evidence for their presence and for the environmental switches that cause them has been scarce. Using a combination of greenhouse and field experiments, we investigated the environmental drivers associated with two distinctive herbaceous communities in coastal ecosystems in New Zealand. In a mosaic unre...

Turf Wars

Turf wars in organizations commonly occur in environments where competition undermines collaboration. We develop a game theoretic model and experimental test of turf wars. The model explores how team production incentives ex post affect team formation decisions ex ante. In the game, one agent decides whether to share jurisdiction over a project with other agents. Agents with jurisdiction decide...

Turf Wars in Stroke Medicine: Why Should Patients Suffer

Interprofessional collaboration and turf wars how prevalent are hidden attitudes?

PURPOSE Interprofessional collaboration in health care is believed to enhance patient outcomes. However, where professions have overlapping scopes of practice (eg, chiropractors and physical therapists), "turf wars" can hinder effective collaboration. Deep-rooted beliefs, identified as implicit attitudes, provide a potential explanation. Even with positive explicit attitudes toward a social gro...