Integrated Care Pathways (ICPs) are multidisciplinary approaches designed and adopted by hospitals for achieving more efficiency and effectiveness in the care processes. Despite these advantages, it is still needed to demonstrate their economical and organizational positive effect, by taking into account specific contextual variables such as the existing resources and technologies of the hospitals (van […]
Purpose – Industrial symbiosis networks (ISNs) are collections of long-term symbiotic relationships among firms, involving physical exchanges of materials and energy as well as the exchange of knowledge, concurrently providing environmental and economic benefits. Our aim is to investigate the complexity of ISNs adopting a similar approach to that developed by Hidalgo and Hausmann (2009) […]
Purpose – This study concerns the antecedents of the effectiveness for autonomous inter-organizational (IO) teams guided by leaders adopting a direct leadership behaviour. We analyse the effect of the density of the team social networks and the environmental uncertainty on the team performances. Design/methodology/approach – We propose an approach based on the Ising model developed […]