... occurs between independent hospitals’ departments, units or clinics. Drawing from research in healthcare management and operations management within healthcare research fields. We applied a conceptual framework of coordination mechanisms as the instrument for the literature analysis. Findings Our...

... of integration (the coordination and alignment of tasks), differentiation (the extent to which tasks are segmented into subsystems), rules, coordination mechanisms and hospital performance. Design/methodology/approach A case study was conducted examining the hospital’s social network, rules, coordination...

... are segmented into subsystems, in a hospital's social network. The current study carries this research further, aiming to explain integration and differentiation by studying the rules and coordination mechanisms that agents in a hospital network use. Design/methodology/approach The current case study...