A life-cycle model of organizational federations: the case of hospitals.
Hospital federations are a form of multiorganizational collaboration in which a management group coordinates and directs the activities of three or more organizations. This paper introduces a life-cycle model of federations that focuses on factors that influence the transition from one stage to another.
D006755:Hospital Shared Services; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009935:Organizational Affiliation; D014481:United States