BACKGROUND Forming partnerships is a prominent strategy used to promote integrated service delivery across health and social service systems. Evidence about the collaboration process upon which partnerships evolve has rarely been addressed in an integrated-care setting. This study explores the longitudinal relationship of the collaboration process and the influence on the final perceived succes...

Can we remake local economies from scratch – not through political struggle but by design to solve wicked problems and transform urban governance? Such questions are raised an emergent trend within experimentation that emphasises participation commoning in designing peer-to-peer provisioning systems a platform logic. This article deconstructs the discourses animating what term “participatory ex...

American veterans and their family members struggle with behavioral health problems, yet few engage in treatment to address these problems. Barriers to care include trouble accessing treatment and limited communication between civilian and military health care systems, which treat veterans and their family members separately. Even though the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is making efforts...

INTRODUCTION Multisector partnerships are promoted as a mechanism to improve population health. This study explored the types and salient features of multisector partnerships in US counties with improving population health metrics. METHODS We used the "Framework for Understanding Cross-Sector Collaborations" proposed by Bryson, Crosby, and Stone to guide data collection and interpretation. Co...

Although the literature on organizational alliances and networks focuses primarily on private sector organizations, public sector organizations have long confronted pressures to manage their environments through the formation of alliances. Moreover, several organizational theorists have posited that private and public sector alliances are becoming more prevalent, particularly in the realm of re...

The occupancy rate of Public Rental Housing (PRH) in China is relatively low due to the unreasonable rents. At the same time, the development of PRH using Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) increases the complexity of the rents. Therefore, the critical factors influencing the rents of PRH delivery by PPPs should be identified. Based on the comprehensive literature, this article identified a con...

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The choice of investment strategy has a great impact on the performance of transport infrastructure. Positive projects such as the "Subway plus Property" model in Hong Kong have created sustainable financial profits for the public transport projects. Owing to a series of public debt and other constraints, public-private partnership (PPP) was introduced as an innovative investment model to addre...