Inter-Organisational Relationships and Organisational Performance: Network Analysis in Health Care

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Inter-organisational relationships and organisational performance: Network analysis in Health care

Contents

1.        Research working title        

2.        Introduction        

3.        Aims and objectives of the research        

4.        Research question        

5.        Preliminary Literature Review        

6.        Research gap and scope        

7.        Research methodology and data analysis        

References        

1. Research working title

The working title of the project is

“Inter-organisational relationships and organisational performance: Network analysis in Health care”

1. Introduction

Inter-organisational relationships are very important in the current business environment as businesses have expanded across the globe. It is very common that the business relationships cut across different industries, cities, countries and continents. Hence multiple networks are formed and may be interrelated with each other (Kożuch & Przygodzka, 2012).  Inter-organisational relationship is a yardstick to measure the credibility of a business organisation against other organisations (Przygodzka, 2012). Thus, inter-organisation relationships do affect organisational performances. Hence it is very vital for the success of businesses and organisations (Kożuch, 2011).

Hence it is necessary to develop and improve inter-organisational relationships. The following research would evaluate the inter-organisational relationships and their impact on organisation performance.

1. Aims and objectives of the research

The main aim of the research is to evaluate the relationship between inter-organisational relationships and organisational performance in the Healthcare sector. Along with this research would address few objectives as stated below:

• To determine the importance of Inter-organisational relationship in health care sector.
• To evaluate inter-organisational relationship and their impact organisation performance specifically in health care sector.
• To suggest and recommend few ways to improve inter-organisational relationships.

1. Research question

The research is aimed to find the inter-organisation relationships and their impact on organisation performance. Hence the main research question which researcher will attempt to address is