In recent years, the performance-based approach to contracting for medical services has been gaining popu-larity across different healthcare delivery systems, both in the US (under the name of "Pay-for-Performance",or P4P), and abroad ("Payment-by-Results", or PbR, in the UK). One common element...

The rapidly expanding literature on knowledge in management research, has outlineda number of different knowledge ‘processes’ such as knowledge sharing, knowledgecreation, knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer. A critical issue, oftendiscussed in terms of enabling innovation or...