Automobile manufacturer–distributor partnerships are fundamental to the success of automobile companies. The complexity of the overall partnership model often causes difficulties in partnership study. This paper presents a systematic procedure to evaluate an automobile manufacturer–distributor partnership consisting of a large number of system variables. Firstly, Interpretive Structure Modeling...

Partnership has emerged as an increasingly popular approach to privatization and government–nonprofit relations generally. While in principle it offers many advantages, there is no consensus on what it means and its practice varies. Following a review of partnership literature, the article refines the partnership concept, developing two definitional dimensions: mutuality and organization identi...

The focus of organizations’ internal communication and collaboration infrastructures has recently been extended from conventional intranets to enterprise social software platforms (ESSPs). However, as ESSPs rely on content creation and interaction through users, many platforms struggle. Previous research suggests that organizational climate plays an important role during IS adoption. Accordingl...

BACKGROUND Person-centred care (PCC) is increasingly advocated as a new way of delivering health care, but there is little evidence that it is widely practised. The University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centred Care (GPCC) was set up in 2010 to develop and implement person-centred care in clinical practice on the basis of three routines. These routines are based on eliciting the patient's ...

Purpose: To enable an understanding of the complexities involved in evaluating and improving the partnerships between organisations involved in integrated working. Theory: Network organisations provide a unique challenge to understanding and evaluating the processes and mechanisms through which organisations integrate. Through integrating research into this interface we propose a methodology fo...

AIM AND OBJECTIVES To present a comparison and a discussion of the Well Child Clinic model in Norway and the Nurse-Family Partnership model in the United States. BACKGROUND The Nurse Family Partnership programme in the United States is voluntary and not universal. The Well Child Clinic programme in Norway is voluntary but universally available for Norwegian families. As the Well Child Clinics...