Acknowledgements
Reconfiguring the Ecosystem for Sustainable Healthcare
ISBN: 978-1-78441-035-3, eISBN: 978-1-78441-034-6
ISSN: 2045-0605
Publication date: 12 August 2014
Citation
(2014), "Acknowledgements", Reconfiguring the Ecosystem for Sustainable Healthcare (Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness, Vol. 4), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. xv-xvi. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2045-060520140000004004
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2014 Emerald Group Publishing Limited
We thank each of the authors of these chapters for their contributions. Academics and practitioners have taken on the important, time-consuming, and difficult task of collaborating to rigorously describe, interpret, and learn from complex change initiatives in which healthcare systems are reconfiguring the ecosystem. We also want to thank Lorelei Oriel Palacpac and the staff at the Center for Effective Organizations for their logistics and manuscript preparation support. Coordinating permissions, getting figures to make sense in black and white, revising manuscripts, orchestrating communications in many different time zones, and doing so with grace under pressure made our task easier.
We would like to acknowledge the support we have received from the many organizations and systems who allowed their cases to be developed and shared. Practice is the essence of our concern, as it is in practice that solutions to the challenges of sustainable effectiveness will emerge. We also acknowledge the support we have received from our own institutions: the Center for Effective Organizations and more broadly the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, the Orfalea College of Business at California Polytechnic State University, and the School of Management at the Politecnico di Milano. Special thanks to the Politecnico for hosting our May, 2012 conference in Como, Italy, and to Arienne McCracken for program managing that conference. We would also like to acknowledge the contributions of our colleagues Svante Lifvergren, M.D., and Andreas Hellström from the Centre for Healthcare Improvement at Chalmers University of Technology, Chris Worley from USC, and Emanuele Lettieri and Raffaella Cagliano from Politecnico di Milano, all of whom are part of our planning team for this series of conferences and book volumes.
Our network reflects our close collaboration at a very personal level and among our institutions–and our mutual passion to contribute to mankind’s quest to create sustainable societies. Through the ongoing dialogue among varied communities of practice, we link many theories, values, and aspirations for the future and aspire to integrate knowledge of theory and practice to address fundamental issues and emerging sustainability challenges. We are grateful to Emerald Group Publishing for providing the opportunity to build a series in which we not only can share learning but more importantly create knowledge to guide practice and theoretical development.
Susan Albers Mohrman
Los Angeles, CA
Abraham B. (Rami) Shani
San Luis Obispo, CA
- Reconfiguring the Ecosystem for Sustainable Healthcare
- Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness
- Reconfiguring the Ecosystem for Sustainable Healthcare
- Copyright Page
- List of Contributors
- Reconfiguring the Ecosystem for Sustainable Healthcare: Introduction to the Volume
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Healthcare: An Ecosystem in Transition
- Chapter 2 The Design and Acceleration of Healthcare Reform/ACOs: The Fairview Medical Group Case
- Chapter 3 Network-Based Transformation of Cardiac Care in New Zealand
- Chapter 4 A Physician-Led, Learning-Driven Approach to Regional Development of 23 Cancer Pathways in Sweden
- Chapter 5 Creating High-Value, Sustainable Healthcare: The Technical and Social Elements of Evidence-Based Medicine at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group
- Chapter 6 Embedding Sustainable-Effectiveness in Decision-Making within an Ecosystem: Lessons from the Health Technology Assessment Program at the Lombardy Region, Italy
- Chapter 7 Difficult Decisions in Times of Constraint: Criteria-Based Resource Allocation
- Chapter 8 Reconfiguring the Ecosystem for Sustainable Healthcare: Integrating Outside-In and Inside-Out Perspectives
- About the Contributors