Quasi Firms: Strategic Interorganizational Forms in the Health Care Industry
分类了医疗保健行业中松散耦合的组织间安排，定义了旨在实现长期战略目标的“准企业”，并探讨了确保其持续性的机制。
In response to significant political, governmental, and socioeconomic changes affecting the health care industry, health care organizations are forming a wide variety of loosely coupled interorganizational arrangements. In this article, loosely coupled forms are classified according to the extent to which they are designed to achieve strategic purposes. The quasi firm is defined as a loosely coupled arrangement created to achieve long-lasting and important strategic purposes. Mechanisms that are needed to ensure the continuity of quasi firms are explored, and an agenda for further research is given.