A scoping review of social network analyses in interorganizational collaboration studies for child mental health

Bustos, Tatiana E.

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105569

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“…Conversely, flexibility is important for ensuring rapid network responses in ways that meet changing families’ needs [ 35 ]. However, studies applying longitudinal network analyses in the field of (child) welfare and healthcare services are scarce [ 4 , 26 , 36 , 37 ]. Therefore, it is unclear how structures of a network vary over time and whether the relations between the individual organizations, i.e., the internal network dynamics, remain the same over time.…”

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“…It is for that reason important that organizations within the child welfare and healthcare service system collaborate sufficiently, for instance by sharing resources such as staff, equipment, information about clients’ conditions and effective treatment. Otherwise, the risk that these families receive an inadequate treatment or fall through the organizational cracks of that system is considerable [ 4 , 5 ]. To this end, there has been - in the past 10 years - a progressive focus on organizing integrated care through collaborating in cross-sectoral service delivery networks [ 6 – 11 ].…”

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“…To this end, there has been - in the past 10 years - a progressive focus on organizing integrated care through collaborating in cross-sectoral service delivery networks [ 6 – 11 ]. Unfortunately, service fragmentation and service duplication remain persistent problems in child welfare and healthcare service delivery systems [ 4 , 5 ].…”

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“…Information exchange between organizations is vital for a shared understanding of families’ needs, a timely response and inter-professional collaboration within a welfare and healthcare service system [ 2 , 17 ]. Therefore, to get a grip on these key processes and to ultimately achieve an effectively operating care network, insight into the flow of information is essential not only for public management scholars building theory on networks, but also for network managers and public policy officials [ 4 , 18 ]. One way of achieving a better understanding of information flows is by analyzing the structure of information exchange relationships [ 19 ].…”

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Intersectoral collaboration at a decentralized level: information flows in child welfare and healthcare networks

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BMC Health Serv Res

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Background As needs of families with social and behavioral health problems often exceed the expertise and possibilities of a single professional, service or organization, cross-service collaboration is indispensable to adequately meeting those needs. Despite the progressive focus on organizing integrated care, service fragmentation and service duplication remain persistent problems in child welfare and healthcare service delivery systems. A crucial factor to overcome these problems is information exchange between organizations. This study explores and compares the development over time of structures of information exchange in networks, concerning both material and knowledge-based information. Methods A comparative case study and social network analysis of three inter-organizational networks of child welfare and healthcare services in different-sized municipalities in the Netherlands. The research population consisted of organizations from various sectors participating in the networks. Data were collected at two moments in time with a mixed method: semi-structured interviews with network managers and an online questionnaire for all network members. Density and degree centralization were used to examine the information exchange structures. Ucinet was used to analyze the data, with use of the statistical tests: Compare Density Procedure and Quadratic Assignment Procedure. Results This study shows that different structures of information exchange can be distinguished, concerning both material and knowledge-based information. The overall connectedness of the studied structures of the networks are quite similar, but the way in which the involvement is structured turns out to be different between the networks. Over time, the overall connectedness of those structures appears to be stable, but the internal dynamics reveals a major change in relationships between organizations in the networks. Conclusions Our study yields empirical evidence for the existence of and the differences between structures and dynamics of both material and knowledge-based information exchange relationships. With a loss of more than a half of the relations in a year, the relationships between the organizations in the network are not very stable over time. The contrast between major internal dynamics and the stable overall connectedness is an important point of concern for network managers and public officials, since this impermanence of relations means that long-term integrated care cannot be guaranteed.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Unfortunately, there is little empirical knowledge of cross-sectoral service delivery networks pertaining to child and youth services. Due to their multidisciplinary nature, it is largely unclear how these networks are composed (network differentiation) and how the organizations within a network are interconnected (network integration) (Bustos, 2020; Colvin, 2017; Colvin and Miller, 2020). From the organization design theory perspective, both differentiation and integration are fundamental and interlinked issues relevant for the functioning of an interorganizational network (Kenis and Raab, 2020).…”

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Cross-sectoral collaboration: comparing complex child service delivery systems

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Mathijssen

Nieuwenhuizen

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PurposeTo help ensure that children with social and behavioral health problems get the support services they need, organizations collaborate in cross-sectoral networks. In this article, the authors explore and compare the structure of these complex child service delivery networks in terms of differentiation (composition) and integration (interconnection). In particular, the authors investigate the structure of client referral and identify which organizations are most prominent within that network structure and could therefore fulfill a coordinating role.Design/methodology/approach The authors used a comparative case study approach and social network analysis on three interorganizational networks consisting of 65 to 135 organizations within the Dutch child service delivery system. Semi-structured interviews with the network managers were conducted, and an online questionnaire was sent out to the representatives of all network members.Findings The networks are similarly differentiated into 11 sectors with various tasks. Remarkably, network members have contact with an average of 20–26 organizations, which is a fairly high number to be handled successfully. In terms of integration, the authors found a striking diversity in the structures of client referral and not all organizations with a gatekeeper task hold central positions.Originality/value Due to the scarcity of comparative whole network research in the field, the strength of this study is a deeper understanding of the differentiation and integration of complex child service delivery systems. These insights are crucial in order to deliver needed services and to minimize service silos and fragmentation.

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Actors’ awareness of network governance in Child Welfare and Healthcare service networks

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A scoping review of social network analyses in interorganizational collaboration studies for child mental health

Cited by 10 publications

References 86 publications

Intersectoral collaboration at a decentralized level: information flows in child welfare and healthcare networks

Intersectoral collaboration at a decentralized level: information flows in child welfare and healthcare networks

Cross-sectoral collaboration: comparing complex child service delivery systems

Actors’ awareness of network governance in Child Welfare and Healthcare service networks

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