The Role of Relational Knowledge in the Structuring of Health Care Networks: A Methodological Contribution

Abstract

A network is an organizational form for collective action whose main fea-tures rest on the variety and intensity of relations between actors. We rely on the work of Austrian sociologist Friedberg, for an integrated analysis of organization studies. Studying a healthcare network located in eastern France, we intend to understand how this organization has been built by an unsuccessful professional bureaucracy.