Between physician and manager: new co-operation models in Dutch hospitals

Analyses the way hospital organisation models handle the relationship between medical specialists and hospital management. All models that have been developed during the last ten years seek to integrate the medical specialists in the hospital organisation by formally subordinating them to the hospital management. However, recently a new model has come to the fore--the "co-makership"--in which the hospital management and the medical specialists are assigned a position alongside each other.