BACKGROUND Knowledge of the structure and character of inter-organizational relationships found among health promotion organizations is a prerequisite for the development of evidence-based network-level intervention activities. The Alberta Healthy Living Network (AHLN) mapped the inter-organizational structure of its members to examine the effects of the network environment on organizational-le...

BACKGROUND Integrated healthcare delivered by work groups in nontraditional service settings is increasingly common, yet contemporary implementation frameworks typically assume a single organization-or organizational unit-within which system-level processes influence service quality and implementation success. Recent implementation frameworks predict that inter-organizational alignment (i.e., s...

There is increasing interest in the ways that public relations is used to create and change relationships between publics and organizations. This paper introduces network analysis as a way to theorize about another dimension of relationships, inter-organizational relationships. Through a case study of inter-organizational relationships in the civil society movement in Croatia, this paper outlin...