Abstract:Decoupling in the health‐care sector is a highly problematic phenomenon that easily leads to dramatic failures in strategy implementation. Although decoupling is addressed frequently at the organizational level, there exists extremely poor evidence of its presence at the federal/regional level. This study provides an investigation on the implementation of Italy's directive on the re‐organization of regional health‐care systems' networks based on breast units, with the intent of detecting different levels of co… Show more
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