Tilburg University
Solitary, merge or collaborate. Determinants of collaboration of elderly care
organizations
Van Den Oord, Steven; Braes, Tom; Cambré, B.; Kenis, Patrick
Published in:International Journal of Integrated Care
DOI:
https://www.ijic.org/articles/abstract/10.5334/ijic.s2146/ Publication date:
2018
Document Version
Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record
Link to publication in Tilburg University Research Portal
Citation for published version (APA):
Van Den Oord, S., Braes, T., Cambré, B., & Kenis, P. (2018). Solitary, merge or collaborate. Determinants of collaboration of elderly care organizations: A case survey approach. International Journal of Integrated Care, 18(S2), 1-8. [146]. https://doi.org/https://www.ijic.org/articles/abstract/10.5334/ijic.s2146/
General rights
Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain
• You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal
Take down policy
If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.
van den Oord, S et al 2018 Solitary, merge or collaborate. Determinants of collaboration of elderly care organizations: a case survey approach.
International Journal of Integrated Care, 18(S2): A146, pp. 1-8, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.5334/ijic.s2146
CONFERENCE ABSTRACT
Solitary, merge or collaborate. Determinants of collaboration of elderly care
organizations: a case survey approach
18
thInternational Conference on Integrated Care, Utrecht, 23-25 May 2018
Steven van den Oord
1,2, Tom Braes
3,6, Bart Cambré
1,2, Patrick Kenis
4,51: Antwerp Management School, Belgium; 2: University of Antwerp, Belgium; 3: Free University of Brussels, Belgium; 4: Tilburg University, the Netherlands;
5: WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; 6: Zorgnet-Icuro, Belgium
Introduction: Traditionally, elderly care organizations play a pivotal role in integrating care for an ageing population, but recently this role has been challenged due to competition from other service providers, such as for-profit organizations, hospitals, home- and primary care organizations. In addition, the increasing complexity of current health care, combined with ageing and housing issues as well as rising co-morbidity in Belgium leads to a rising demand for collaboration. Not only do elderly care organizations have to deal with more and more tasks that are unique, but also are resources distributed across various service providers. As such, elderly care organizations are moving slowly from managing mainly physical assets such as housing facilities towards more intellectual and relational capacities and treatment services resulting into shared service centers and tailor-made health and social care solutions.
Theory/methods: Although a number of factors have been proposed how to integrate health- and social care service delivery, collaboration pervades most discussions. We argue in this article that elderly care organizations follow a combination of three underlying strategic motives based on effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy criteria to make a conscious, intentional decision to establish a relationship with other organizations for explicitly formulated purposes. We conceptualize these relationships as three ideal types: solitary, merger or collaboration and propose that the presence or absence of these types is explained by a combination of the changing nature in the task, the organizational configuration and its interdependency on others in the external environment.
2
van den Oord; Solitary, merge or collaborate. Determinants of collaboration of elderly care organizations: a case survey approach
Results, conclusion and discussion: Implications of the findings for elderly care organizations are discussed in light of the rising health care issues and increasing competition in Flanders Belgium. In particular, we are interested in which combinatory recipes, if any, of task, organizational configuration, and interdependency explain the presence or absence of a particular ideal type of collaboration. Furthermore, future recommendations are presented to further the development of how elderly care organizations can deal with their changing role in the healthcare system.
Keywords: elderly care organization; integrated care; collaboration; service delivery
