Collaboration and Competition among Dutch Healthcare Providers

Inter-organizational collaboration plays a pivotal role in the provision of care for patients and clients. Yet, questions on how and why healthcare providers collaborate, how collaboration coexists with competition policy and how collaboration contributes to patient outcomes were largely unexplored. Therefore, this thesis studies inter-organizational collaboration between providers within the setting of regulated competition. The results show that objectives for collaboration differ between hospitals and long-term care organizations. Competition enforcement aims to safeguard competition when c... Mehr ...