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CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to: :

"Social Innovation in Health Care"

General Track 5 EURAM 2012

Papers submission deadline: 17 January 2012 (2:00 p.m. Brussels time)

EURAM 2012 conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June, 6^th-8^th , 2012

Health care system reforms

For the last decades, financial, political en demographical developments have changed institutional health care contexts worldwide. Overall, health care systems have been profoundly reformed from corporatist health care systems to more market-oriented policy models. (Putters, Helderman & Van der Grinten 2004; Saltman and Figueras, 1997; Schut & Van de Ven 2005). Based on the idea of managed care or regulated competition, these new health systems stimulate competition between health insurers, health providers and health care users (Porter & Teisberg 2006; Enthoven & Van de Ven 2007). At the organizational level, traditional health care organizations are confronted with the introduction of new technologies, new ways of delivering services, new mechanisms of paying for care, new types of health care organizations, health care cooperatives, and competitive relations between them. They are in constant struggle to adapt effectively to dominant public regulation as well as develop increased market orientation (Scott, Ruef, Mendel & Caronna 2000).The restructuring process has been, and remains, a challenge towards the goal of a system in which affordable health care is provided based on the central values of solidarity, quality, equal accessibility and distribution, as well as affordability under the demographic conditions of an increasingly aging and growing population (Van Egmond & Zuiderent- Jerak 2011). The continuous reconfiguration of policies and extent of regulation increases openings for the realignment of organizational processes and the introduction of new organizational and inter-organizational forms (Camps & Kenis 2010).

Social innovation in health care: both complex and necessary

The public-private-professional constructions of new health care systems increasingly entangle public, private and professional values, displaying the multifaceted determinants for legitimacy attribution of heterogenic stakeholders.  Health care systems could benefit from a social innovation perspective.  Social innovation implies the complex process of introducing new products, processes or programs that profoundly change the basic routines, resources and authority flows, or beliefs of the social system in which the innovation occurs (Westley & Antadze 2010). 

Sub tracks

We invite authors to reach for new understandings of social innovation in health care to address research questions which include - but are not limited to – one of the following 6 sub tracks:

1.     Organizational Networks in Health Care (e.g. how does social innovation relate to the birth and design of new and flexible intra- and inter- network forms in health care? How does social innovation relate to Health 2.0 network forms of organizational professionals and patients? How does social innovation relate to development and implementation of ICT-networks and changing task networks in healthcare?) (Track leader: prof.dr. P. Groenewegen, VU Amsterdam)

2.     Quality, performance and productivity of Health Care services (e.g. how does social innovation relate to changing internal health organization structures and practices, learning, safety? How does social innovation contribute to increases in quality and performance of health care professionals and does this imply the need for new health care impact assessments?) (Track leaders: prof.dr. A. Klink, VU University & prof.dr. M. Boekholdt, VU University)

3.     Labour issues in Health Care: (e.g. how does social innovation contribute to changing work and employment relations in health care? How does the development of human capital and the restructuring of work relations relate to labour productivity in health care?) (Track leader: prof.dr. A.  Hemerijck, VU Amsterdam)

4.     Strategic collaborations of Health Care organizations (e.g. how and why does social innovation influence alliances, mergers and acquisitions and processes of open innovation in health care. How does social innovation relate to the collaboration between health care services and other (semi-) public sectors like housing and social services? How do new entrants such as for profit health care providers influence strategy and organization of health care delivery?) (Track leader: prof.dr. A.A. de Roo, Tilburg University/ Erasmus University)

5.     Policy and governance issues of Health Care (e.g. how does social innovation provide new areas for policy and governance issues of health care and what are the roles of health care insurance companies and other civic, political and economical actors in this process? How does social innovation relate to new forms of collaboration of social partners, governments and research institutes in health care?) (Track leader: prof.dr. K. Putters/ Erasmus University&  prof.dr. P. L. Meurs, Erasmus University)

6.     Management and Entrepreneurship in Health Care  (e.g. how does social innovation changes the role of healthcare executives and professionals, leadership competencies and frames and e.g. how does social innovation relate to new entry and entrepreneurship processes in contributing to increased cost-effectiveness and accessibility of health care? What is the influence of private investors on health care management practices and delivery?) (Track leaders: prof.dr. P. L. Meurs, Erasmus University & prof.dr. M. Boekholdt, VU University )

The full call for papers of the track is attached.

Important: Papers submission deadline: 17 January 2012 (2:00 p.m. Brussels time)

For more information on the conference, and the track please visit the official website of the conference:
http://www.euram2012.nl

For more information on the track please visit the following link:
http://euram2012.nl/userfiles/file/5_%20Social%20Innovation%20in%20Health%20Care.pdf

To submit your paper:
http://www.euram2012.nl/r/scripts/register/default.asp

Please do not hesitate to contact us if  you need further information,

Best regards, the track chairs.

______________________________________

Call for Papers

The deadline for the submission of full papers is 17 January 2012 2:00 p.m. Brussels time.
Below is a set of guidelines and formatting instructions to help you prepare and submit your paper.
Please note, you may be listed as an author or co-author on up to 3 submitted papers

Please read them carefully prior to submitting:

1.     Each paper can only be submitted to ONE track (see list of tracks on EURAM 2012 Website)

2.     Submitted papers must NOT have been previously presented, published, accepted for publication, and if under review, must NOT appear in print before EURAM 2012 Conference.

3.     To facilitate the blind review process, remove ALL authors identifying information, including acknowledgements, from the text. (Any submissions with author information will be automatically DELETED).

4.     The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE document created in PDF format.

5.     The maximum length of the paper is 40 pages (including ALL tables, appendices and references). The paper format should follow the European Management Review Style Guide.

6.     Use Times New Roman 12-pitch font, double spaced, and 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin all around.

7.     Number all of the pages of the paper.

8.     NO changes in the paper title, abstract, authorship, and actual paper can occur AFTER the submission deadline.

9.     Check that the PDF File of your paper prints correctly (i.e. all imported figures and tables are there), and ensure that the file is virus-free.

10.   Submissions will be done on-line on the EURAM 2012 Website (http://www.euram2012.nl).

11.   Only submissions in English shall be accepted for review.

NOTE: In case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should be available to present the paper at the conference.

Apologies for cross postings

CALL FOR PAPERS

Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to: :

"Social Innovation in Health Care"

General Track 5 EURAM 2012

Papers submission deadline: 17 January 2012 (2:00 p.m. Brussels time)

EURAM 2012 conference, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June, 6^th-8^th , 2012

Health care system reforms

For the last decades, financial, political en demographical developments have changed institutional health care contexts worldwide. Overall, health care systems have been profoundly reformed from corporatist health care systems to more market-oriented policy models. (Putters, Helderman & Van der Grinten 2004; Saltman and Figueras, 1997; Schut & Van de Ven 2005). Based on the idea of managed care or regulated competition, these new health systems stimulate competition between health insurers, health providers and health care users (Porter & Teisberg 2006; Enthoven & Van de Ven 2007). At the organizational level, traditional health care organizations are confronted with the introduction of new technologies, new ways of delivering services, new mechanisms of paying for care, new types of health care organizations, health care cooperatives, and competitive relations between them. They are in constant struggle to adapt effectively to dominant public regulation as well as develop increased market orientation (Scott, Ruef, Mendel & Caronna 2000).The restructuring process has been, and remains, a challenge towards the goal of a system in which affordable health care is provided based on the central values of solidarity, quality, equal accessibility and distribution, as well as affordability under the demographic conditions of an increasingly aging and growing population (Van Egmond & Zuiderent- Jerak 2011). The continuous reconfiguration of policies and extent of regulation increases openings for the realignment of organizational processes and the introduction of new organizational and inter-organizational forms (Camps & Kenis 2010).

Social innovation in health care: both complex and necessary

The public-private-professional constructions of new health care systems increasingly entangle public, private and professional values, displaying the multifaceted determinants for legitimacy attribution of heterogenic stakeholders.  Health care systems could benefit from a social innovation perspective.  Social innovation implies the complex process of introducing new products, processes or programs that profoundly change the basic routines, resources and authority flows, or beliefs of the social system in which the innovation occurs (Westley & Antadze 2010). 

Sub tracks

We invite authors to reach for new understandings of social innovation in health care to address research questions which include - but are not limited to – one of the following 6 sub tracks:

1.     Organizational Networks in Health Care (e.g. how does social innovation relate to the birth and design of new and flexible intra- and inter- network forms in health care? How does social innovation relate to Health 2.0 network forms of organizational professionals and patients? How does social innovation relate to development and implementation of ICT-networks and changing task networks in healthcare?) (Track leader: prof.dr. P. Groenewegen, VU Amsterdam)

2.     Quality, performance and productivity of Health Care services (e.g. how does social innovation relate to changing internal health organization structures and practices, learning, safety? How does social innovation contribute to increases in quality and performance of health care professionals and does this imply the need for new health care impact assessments?) (Track leaders: prof.dr. A. Klink, VU University & prof.dr. M. Boekholdt, VU University)

3.     Labour issues in Health Care: (e.g. how does social innovation contribute to changing work and employment relations in health care? How does the development of human capital and the restructuring of work relations relate to labour productivity in health care?) (Track leader: prof.dr. A.  Hemerijck, VU Amsterdam)

4.     Strategic collaborations of Health Care organizations (e.g. how and why does social innovation influence alliances, mergers and acquisitions and processes of open innovation in health care. How does social innovation relate to the collaboration between health care services and other (semi-) public sectors like housing and social services? How do new entrants such as for profit health care providers influence strategy and organization of health care delivery?) (Track leader: prof.dr. A.A. de Roo, Tilburg University/ Erasmus University)

5.     Policy and governance issues of Health Care (e.g. how does social innovation provide new areas for policy and governance issues of health care and what are the roles of health care insurance companies and other civic, political and economical actors in this process? How does social innovation relate to new forms of collaboration of social partners, governments and research institutes in health care?) (Track leader: prof.dr. K. Putters/ Erasmus University&  prof.dr. P. L. Meurs, Erasmus University)

6.     Management and Entrepreneurship in Health Care  (e.g. how does social innovation changes the role of healthcare executives and professionals, leadership competencies and frames and e.g. how does social innovation relate to new entry and entrepreneurship processes in contributing to increased cost-effectiveness and accessibility of health care? What is the influence of private investors on health care management practices and delivery?) (Track leaders: prof.dr. P. L. Meurs, Erasmus University & prof.dr. M. Boekholdt, VU University )

The full call for papers of the track is attached.

Important: Papers submission deadline: 17 January 2012 (2:00 p.m. Brussels time)

For more information on the conference, and the track please visit the official website of the conference:
http://www.euram2012.nl

For more information on the track please visit the following link:
http://euram2012.nl/userfiles/file/5_%20Social%20Innovation%20in%20Health%20Care.pdf

To submit your paper:
http://www.euram2012.nl/r/scripts/register/default.asp

Please do not hesitate to contact us if  you need further information,

Best regards, the track chairs.

______________________________________

Call for Papers

The deadline for the submission of full papers is 17 January 2012 2:00 p.m. Brussels time.
Below is a set of guidelines and formatting instructions to help you prepare and submit your paper.
Please note, you may be listed as an author or co-author on up to 3 submitted papers

Please read them carefully prior to submitting:

1.     Each paper can only be submitted to ONE track (see list of tracks on EURAM 2012 Website)

2.     Submitted papers must NOT have been previously presented, published, accepted for publication, and if under review, must NOT appear in print before EURAM 2012 Conference.

3.     To facilitate the blind review process, remove ALL authors identifying information, including acknowledgements, from the text. (Any submissions with author information will be automatically DELETED).

4.     The entire paper (title page, abstract, main text, figures, tables, references, etc.) must be in ONE document created in PDF format.

5.     The maximum length of the paper is 40 pages (including ALL tables, appendices and references). The paper format should follow the European Management Review Style Guide.

6.     Use Times New Roman 12-pitch font, double spaced, and 1-inch (2.5 cm) margin all around.

7.     Number all of the pages of the paper.

8.     NO changes in the paper title, abstract, authorship, and actual paper can occur AFTER the submission deadline.

9.     Check that the PDF File of your paper prints correctly (i.e. all imported figures and tables are there), and ensure that the file is virus-free.

10.   Submissions will be done on-line on the EURAM 2012 Website (http://www.euram2012.nl).

11.   Only submissions in English shall be accepted for review.

NOTE: In case of acceptance, the author or one of the co-authors should be available to present the paper at the conference.