title: Investigating innovation in complex health care supply networks: an initial conceptual framework.
abstract: This paper explores the constraints and enablers of the process of innovation within the context of UK health care supply networks. Building on a comprehensive literature review of established and recent innovation and supply network research, the paper presents three levels of supply network analysis: sector level supply networks, focal organization supply networks and dyadic supply relationships. The paper reports on the first round of fieldwork conducted with 12 different health care organizations. The three different levels are applied during analysis and the findings are considered in terms of the key themes that have emerged and the practical and theoretical challenges that they represent.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply, University of Bath School of Management, Bath, UK. mnswp@management.bath.ac.uk
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Johnsen
authors.forename: Nigel
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Caldwell
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lewis
mesh_terms: D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D013597:Systems Analysis; D006113:United Kingdom