Saving Societies From Within

Innovation and Equity Through Inter-Organizational Networks

Jerald Hage, Joseph J. Valadez, Wilbur C. Hadden, Joseph J. J. Valadez, Wilbur C. C. Hadden

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781032620794
• eBook ISBN:
  9781003821328
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Social Sciences

Moving beyond existing models from economics and political science, this book shows how crises in capitalism and democracy can be solved with Systemic coordinated inter-organizational networks.

It offers a new model of societal coordination that builds cooperation and trust while solving today's modern and complex practical problems: Systemic coordinated inter-organizational networks (SCIONs). It details how SCIONs can quickly catalyze organizational change among interorganizational network members while providing a general framework for characterizing individual and organizational change. The chapters apply these theoretical ideas in an epic case study of the rebuilding of the health care system in rural Nicaragua after a major natural disaster (Hurricane Mitch). They provide lessons for public health program managers while contributing to the literatures on modes of coordination and on social capital.

The book is a vital text for upper-division courses on management, inter-organizational collaboration, crisis management and public health.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• 1 The Theory of Systemic Coordinated Inter-Organizational Networks for Radical Innovation and Social Equality
• 2 A Case Study of a SCION for Social Equality: An Action Theory Model to Improve Safe Motherhood and Child Survival in Developing Countries With Natural Disasters
• 3 The Origin of NicaSalud, a Network Coordinating Organization, or How to Form a NGO SCION, a Systemic Coordinated Inter-Organizational Network
• 4 Increasing Social Equality and Access to Safe Motherhood Services: Changing Health Behaviors and Knowledge to Improve Safe Motherhood
• 5 Increasing Social Equality and Access to Child Survival Services: Changing Health Behaviors and Knowledge to Improve Child Survival
• 6 SCION Effectiveness—Part One: Social Equality— In Safe Motherhood and Child Survival—and Radical Organizational Change—Learning, Innovation and Adaptiveness
• 7 SCION Effectiveness—Part Two: Institutional Innovation—Rebuilding and Strengthening Health Care Systems, Differentiating Regional Sub-Networks and Institutionalizing NicaSalud
• 8 Action Theory Revisited: Managerial and Stakeholder Recommendations and Theoretical Insights About SCIONs for Social Scientists
• References
• Index