Strategic Alliances Among Health and Human Services Organizations - From Affiliations to Consolidations

With a focus on relationship building, this book offers theoretical and practical information to organizations considering and negotiating this process. Throughout, the book employs actual case examples of health and human services organizations nationally to illustrate core concepts and offer insights into why and how organizations are forming strategic alliances to fulfill their missions and better address the consumers' needs.

List of contents

PART ONE: WHEN ORGANIZATIONS COME TOGETHER: THE FUNDAMENTALS OF STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
What are Strategic Alliances?
Six Organizing Frameworks
Developing Alliances
PART TWO: COOPERATION: MUTUAL SUPPORT WITHOUT LOSS OF AUTONOMY
Affiliations
PART THREE: COORDINATION
Federations and Associations
Coalitions
PART FOUR: COLLABORATION: UNITED BY A COMMON STRATEGY
Consortia
Networks
Ventures
PART FIVE: COADUNATION: WHEN ONE NEW ORGANIZATION MAKES MORE SENSE
Mergers, Consolidations and Acquisitions
PART SIX: ALLIANCE EVALUATION
Strengthening an Alliance Through Evaluation

Product details

• Authors: Darlyne Bailey, Kelly McNally Koney, Kelly McNally Koney
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9780761913160
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-1316-0
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 281 g
• Series: Sage Sourcebooks for the Human; Sage Sourcebooks for the Human; SAGE Sourcebooks for the Human Services
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management