Coordination Networks Within and Across Organizations: A Multi‐level Framework*
研究医院如何将内部患者护理协调扩展到外部合作伙伴，提出一个连接组织内与组织间协调的多层次框架，对关注外包、组织网络和医疗管理的学者有参考价值。
ABSTRACT There are important organizational phenomena that cannot be fruitfully examined without crossing levels of analysis, as others have shown. We argue that coordination of patient care in the current institutional environment is one such phenomenon. As organizations vertically disintegrate and outsource services that were once produced internally, coordination with external organizations becomes increasingly important for achieving desired performance outcomes. We describe the efforts of one hospital to extend the intra‐organizational coordination of patient care to encompass coordination with its external partners. The organization design and network perspectives are both conducive to spanning multiple levels of analysis. We show that the two perspectives together serve as a useful vehicle for developing a framework that links intra‐ and inter‐organizational coordination.