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Abstract
Purpose: The objective is to test contingency theory among "community homes" in a region in Northern Italy. Community homes constitute an emerging key setting in the Italian primary healthcare system and are emblematic of the most recent organizational solutions in primary care across countries.
Methods: A case study was carried out through semi-structured interviews administered in community homes to key professionals. Results were validated in two communities of practices.
Findings: Several elements of organizational and managerial variability were detected across the sample of community homes involved in the study, although they were all responding to the same regulations and normative pressures.
Original value: The study provides preliminary evidence on the role of contingency theory in the primary healthcare sector, shedding light on its characteristics and providing food for thought on the extent to which organizational variability should be supported, rather than hindered.
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Health Services Management Research (HSMR) is an authoritative international peer-reviewed journal which publishes theoretically and empirically rigorous research on questions of enduring interest to health-care organizations and systems throughout the world. Examining the real issues confronting health services management, it provides an independent view and cutting edge evidence-based research to guide policy-making and management decision-making. HSMR aims to be a forum serving an international community of academics and researchers on the one hand and healthcare managers, executives, policymakers and clinicians and all health professionals on the other. HSMR wants to make a substantial contribution to both research and managerial practice, with particular emphasis placed on publishing studies which offer actionable findings and on promoting knowledge mobilisation toward theoretical advances.
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