This paper analyzes the economic dynamics of five forms of organizational growth in health care: horizontal integration within a single geographic market; horizontal integration across different geographic markets; diversification among multiple products and types of service; diversification among multiple distribution channels; and vertical integration with suppliers. These principles are illu...

Integrated care is provided by professionals with different disciplines, competencies and degree of specialization with the first objective to promote cooperation and with a final objective to promote quality and efficiency of care. Following the degree of integration four models can be distinguished: no integration, linkage, coordination and full integration. An optimal degree exists for integ...

I n recent years, important changes to the U.S. banking regulatory framework have been introduced that were expected to affect the size distribution of banks. These changes in regulation had a clear objective: to allow for a higher degree of horizontal and vertical integration in the banking industry. While horizontal integration takes place when different firms that are producing the same prod...

This article examines how horizontal integration between the various departments of a local authority in the United Kingdom (UK) occurs. Following that the aim of this article is to extract the “success factors” in government intervention that support horizontal and vertical integration based on the strategies pursued in the UK in order to render favourable results if applied elsewhere. The res...

This article examines how horizontal integration between the various departments of a local authority in the United Kingdom (UK) occurs. Following that the aim of this article is to extract the “success factors” in government intervention that support horizontal and vertical integration based on the strategies pursued in the UK in order to render favourable results if applied elsewhere. The res...