Sander Merkus
Biographic Data
| ID | 6777200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sander Merkus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sander |
| FAMILY NAME | Merkus |
| SIGNATURE | MERKUS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Supervisory arrangements for Integrated Care Networks
Introduction: A challenging aspect of integrated care governance is the complexity of organizing supervision of collaborating inter-organizational networks. Supervision can be understood as parties explaining and justifying their conduct, answering other parties that pose questions, pass judgement, and potentially intervene. Contemporary supervisory arrangements and instruments are predominantly aimed at individual organizations and not at the fu…
Caring communities
Background: In a caring community, individuals work together to provide care and support, particularly for those in vulnerable situations. In the Netherlands, we have seen a rapid increase in the number of active caring communities in recent years. Given the ageing population, limited care capacity, and a withdrawing government, this development seems both necessary and inevitable. However, integrating caring communities as a thriving part of our…
Supporting regions with different perspectives for suitable scale in order to prevent regions from “network congestion”
Regional collaboration is needed to deal with current shortages and challenges in Dutch healthcare. But there are a lot of different levels and scales to organize healthcare in regions. For example by Public health service areas, hospital catchment areas, provinces and healthcare offices. This can lead to what we call 'network congestion' and raises questions like: Would we structure healthcare the same way if we could start with a blank map? At …
Accountability in integrated care; perspectives, approaches of stakeholders in health- and social care networks in the Netherlands
Background: Purpose-oriented networks (1) are networks in which organisations arrange care together around a specific group of patients/clients/citizens to provide integrated care. This reflects the urgency to better align and organise care and support around people’s needs (2). Four criteria are important: A) degree of shared purpose, B) degree of membership of three or more actors, C) degree of joint effort for the determined mutual objectives,…
Supervisory arrangements for Integrated Care Networks
Introduction: One of the challenging aspects of organizing integrated care is the complexity of organizing supervision of these networks. Supervision can be understood as parties explaining and justifying their conduct in reaction on other parties posing questions and passing judgement, potentially with consequences for the parties under supervision. contemporary arrangements and instruments for supervision are mostly aimed at individual organiza…
The appropriate scale for integrated care
Organizing integrated care in networks of collaborating care organizations is a complex challenge. One of the aspects of this challenge concerns determining the suitable scale of such networks. The aim is to provide the participants with knowledge and tools in order to make more deliberate scale-decisions. Context & research problem: Scale is not a simple question of macro/meso/micro but an outcome of the interplay between many different interest…
Caring communities as indispensable elements of a caring society
In the past decade the Netherlands has seen major reforms in health- and social care. These reforms envisioned a shift from a social democratic welfare state to a ‘participation society’; people with care and support live at home longer and rely increasingly on their informal network for support. In response to this transformation, we see an increase of citizens initiatives for care, wellbeing and support in the Netherlands. There is a great vari…
Innovative Supervision on Organizational Networks
Introduction: Organizing integrated care in networks of collaborating care organizations is a complex challenge. One of the aspects of this challenge concerns determining the suitable scale of such networks. Scale is not a simple question of macro/meso/micro but an outcome of the interplay between many different interests, values and perceptions of organizations participating in a network. Another aspect of the challenge of integrated networks is…
Catch of the day
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Narratives about scale of integrated Care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Turning New Public Management theory into reality
Within the literature of governance and policy making in the context of planning, the notion of performativity is specifically conceptualized as the self-fulfilling property of performances – such as story-telling – that shape public reality. One specific stream of performativity researchers – dominant in the realm of organization studies – focuses on the enactment of academic theory into reality. We contribute to this idea of bringing theory int…
Framing the Zone
Storytelling is regarded as an important practice within planning processes. Seminal contributions (Throgmorton, 1992 Throgmorton, J. (1992) Planning as persuasive storytelling about the future: Negotiating an electric power rate settlement in Illinois, Journal of Planning Education and Research, 12, pp. 17–31.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar], Journal of Planning Education and Research, 12, pp. 17–31; Flyvbjerg, 1998 Flyvbjerg, B. (1998) Rationality…
Decision-making as performative struggle
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of performative struggle through the use of an interpretative case story focussed on a strategic decision-making process concerning infrastructural development. Performativity is about "world-making" (Carteret al., 2010), based on the assumption that conceptual schemes are not only prescriptions of the world, for the practices flowing from these abstract ideas bring into being the wor…
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Framing the Zone
Storytelling is regarded as an important practice within planning processes. Seminal contributions (Throgmorton, 1992 Throgmorton, J. (1992) Planning as persuasive storytelling about the future: Negotiating an electric power rate settlement in Illinois, Journal of Planning Education and Research, 12, pp. 17–31.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar], Journal of Planning Education and Research, 12, pp. 17–31; Flyvbjerg, 1998 Flyvbjerg, B. (1998) Rationality…
Decision-making as performative struggle
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of performative struggle through the use of an interpretative case story focussed on a strategic decision-making process concerning infrastructural development. Performativity is about "world-making" (Carteret al., 2010), based on the assumption that conceptual schemes are not only prescriptions of the world, for the practices flowing from these abstract ideas bring into being the wor…
Turning New Public Management theory into reality
Within the literature of governance and policy making in the context of planning, the notion of performativity is specifically conceptualized as the self-fulfilling property of performances – such as story-telling – that shape public reality. One specific stream of performativity researchers – dominant in the realm of organization studies – focuses on the enactment of academic theory into reality. We contribute to this idea of bringing theory int…
Catch of the day
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Narratives about scale of integrated Care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Innovative Supervision on Organizational Networks
Introduction: Organizing integrated care in networks of collaborating care organizations is a complex challenge. One of the aspects of this challenge concerns determining the suitable scale of such networks. Scale is not a simple question of macro/meso/micro but an outcome of the interplay between many different interests, values and perceptions of organizations participating in a network. Another aspect of the challenge of integrated networks is…
Supervisory arrangements for Integrated Care Networks
Introduction: One of the challenging aspects of organizing integrated care is the complexity of organizing supervision of these networks. Supervision can be understood as parties explaining and justifying their conduct in reaction on other parties posing questions and passing judgement, potentially with consequences for the parties under supervision. contemporary arrangements and instruments for supervision are mostly aimed at individual organiza…
The appropriate scale for integrated care
Organizing integrated care in networks of collaborating care organizations is a complex challenge. One of the aspects of this challenge concerns determining the suitable scale of such networks. The aim is to provide the participants with knowledge and tools in order to make more deliberate scale-decisions. Context & research problem: Scale is not a simple question of macro/meso/micro but an outcome of the interplay between many different interest…
Caring communities as indispensable elements of a caring society
In the past decade the Netherlands has seen major reforms in health- and social care. These reforms envisioned a shift from a social democratic welfare state to a ‘participation society’; people with care and support live at home longer and rely increasingly on their informal network for support. In response to this transformation, we see an increase of citizens initiatives for care, wellbeing and support in the Netherlands. There is a great vari…
Supervisory arrangements for Integrated Care Networks
Introduction: A challenging aspect of integrated care governance is the complexity of organizing supervision of collaborating inter-organizational networks. Supervision can be understood as parties explaining and justifying their conduct, answering other parties that pose questions, pass judgement, and potentially intervene. Contemporary supervisory arrangements and instruments are predominantly aimed at individual organizations and not at the fu…
Caring communities
Background: In a caring community, individuals work together to provide care and support, particularly for those in vulnerable situations. In the Netherlands, we have seen a rapid increase in the number of active caring communities in recent years. Given the ageing population, limited care capacity, and a withdrawing government, this development seems both necessary and inevitable. However, integrating caring communities as a thriving part of our…
Supporting regions with different perspectives for suitable scale in order to prevent regions from “network congestion”
Regional collaboration is needed to deal with current shortages and challenges in Dutch healthcare. But there are a lot of different levels and scales to organize healthcare in regions. For example by Public health service areas, hospital catchment areas, provinces and healthcare offices. This can lead to what we call 'network congestion' and raises questions like: Would we structure healthcare the same way if we could start with a blank map? At …
Accountability in integrated care; perspectives, approaches of stakeholders in health- and social care networks in the Netherlands
Background: Purpose-oriented networks (1) are networks in which organisations arrange care together around a specific group of patients/clients/citizens to provide integrated care. This reflects the urgency to better align and organise care and support around people’s needs (2). Four criteria are important: A) degree of shared purpose, B) degree of membership of three or more actors, C) degree of joint effort for the determined mutual objectives,…
Interprofessional Education and Collaboration (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Health care (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Context (archaeology (4 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Scale (ratio (4 works) · Engineering (3 works)