OBJECTIVES The aim of this project was to identify core topics of health care ethics that could be taught through an inter-professional approach to undergraduate education. DESIGN Five nominal group technique workshops. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Teaching staff from different professional disciplines in our university (nursing branches, occupational therapy and physiotherapy). RESULTS Seven...

New business collaboration networks use service oriented enterprise architecture to manage their inter-organizational information systems. Coupling Service orientation with enterprise architecture paradigm is very important at improving organizational performance through business process optimization. Also, system architecture promotes synergy and business efficiency for inter-organizational co...

Within the innovation literature, inter-organizational cooperation is being advanced as instrumental for improving the innovative performance of firms. In addition, it has been suggested more recently, that inter-organizational cooperation can be instrumental for addressing the paradoxical requirements innovation strategies entail. At the same time-large scale-empirical evidence for such a rela...

BACKGROUND Collaborative partnerships are considered an essential strategy for integrating local disjointed health and social services. Currently, little evidence is available on how integrated care arrangements between professionals and organisations are achieved through the evolution of collaboration processes over time. The first aim was to develop a typology of integrated care projects (ICP...