this commentary considers the potential role of patient and public involvement in implementation. developing an analytical thread from the resource-based view of the firm, we argue that this involvement may create unique resources that have the capacity to enhance the impact of implementation activity for healthcare organisations.

evaluating the investment that healthcare organisations make in quality improvement requires knowledge of impact at multiple levels, including patient care, workforce and other organisational resources. the degree to which these resources help organisations to survive and thrive in the challenging contexts in which healthcare is designed and delivered is unknown. investigating this question fro...

Over recent decades, share ownership of listed companies has concentrated into the hands large institutional investors, challenging traditional agency theory view corporate governance as a mechanism to resolve separation and control. Alternative theories have emerged explain role investors in governance, each with slightly different on motivations these powerful shareholders nature their relati...

One of the challenges in the paper by Rose et al. (2005) is the need to build integrative theories to address the interweaving of machine and human agency. I would like to suggest, alternatively, that we should encourage a thousand theoretical flowers to bloom. I illustrate my argument using research on GIS in India.

Agency theory argues that shareholder interests require protection by separation of incumbency of rôles of board chair and CEO. Stewardship theory argues shareholder interests are maximised by shared incumbency of these rôles. Results of an empirical test fail to support agency theory and provide some support for stewardship theory.