Coopetition in health care: A multi-level analysis of its individual and organizational determinants

Cooperative inter-organizational relations are salient to healthcare delivery. However, they do not match with the pro-competitive healthcare reforms implemented in several countries. Healthcare organizations thus need to balance competition and cooperation in a situation of 'coopetition'. In this paper we study the individual and organizational determinants of coopetition versus those of cooperation in the price competitive specialized care sector of the Netherlands. We use shared medical specialists as a proxy of collaboration between healthcare organizations. Based on a sample of 15,431 med... Mehr ...