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Healthcare management, entrepreneurship, and innovation involves multiple actors spanning from individuals to the larger system level. For example, patients, providers, entrepreneurs, managers, scientists, and investors/funders are nested and interconnected in collective partnerships, teams, organizations, communities, and political systems. These relationships are multifaceted and result in layers of complexity as well as a range of opportunities for the stakeholders involved. In healthcare, stakeholders oftentimes have differing goals and the goods/services provided can be less tangible, with credence qualities or with longer time horizons around outcomes, compared to other areas of business management. Tasks are complex and interdependent while co-production among numerous actors from different backgrounds is common. Therefore, a better understanding of the managerial, entrepreneurial, and innovative processes across healthcare can contribute to our research progress, practitioner application, and broader social impact. In this symposium, we will bring together scholars from across disciplines and geography to explain how to advance healthcare innovation and entrepreneurial activity. The papers consider a range of stakeholders, leverage various theoretical and methodological approaches, and focus on multiple levels in healthcare, such as the political economy of a region, venture capital investment across counties, temporary teams in hospitals, business model innovation for firms, and individual entrepreneurial mindsets. Multi-Stakeholder and Multi-Level Perspectives on Healthcare Innovation and Entrepreneurship Author: Alia Crocker; Babson College The Political Economy of Digital Health Equity Author: Jay Shaw; U. of Toronto Author: Wiljeana Jackson Glover; Babson College Exploring Team Composition and Functioning using Additive Manufacturing Technology in Ortho Surgery Author: Daniele Mascia; Luiss U. Shaping Business Models in Healthcare Author: Andrea Funke; Macquarie Business School, Macquarie U. Author: Ralf Wilden; Macquarie Business School, Macquarie U. Author: Siegfried P. Gudergan; Waikato Management School Disentangling a Tight Warp Thread: Entrepreneurial Actors and Factors in the Development of Vaccines Author: Sebastiano Massaro; Surrey Business School Author: Gianni G Lorenzoni; U. of Bologna The Relationship between Venture Capital-Funded Healthcare Service Organizations and County Outcomes Author: Yunwei Gai; Babson College Author: Candida G Brush; Babson College Author: Alia Crocker; Babson College Author: Wiljeana Jackson Glover; Babson College [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It has become increasingly clear that health care organizations must collaborate in profound ways with one another, as well as with community service organizations and a range of other stakeholders, in order to achieve the goals of improved outcomes, enhanced patient experience, and controlled costs. As a result, the challenge of "integrated care" has grown in profile and attention. The purpose of this symposium is to examine potential contributions from management theory to the conceptualization of the scale and spread of integrated care, and to generate novel insights for management theory in return. The symposium includes researchers currently working in Canada and the United States, and speakers will be addressing management theory for scale and spread in ways that are relevant across these and other health system contexts. Each speaker will be given 10 minutes to succinctly respond to the following 2 questions: 1. Briefly describe a theoretical concept or perspective that you see as being particularly valuable for the study of the scale and spread of integrated care. 2. Assuming that the current paradigm of scale and spread for integrated care is flawed in some way(s), what do you think this concept adds to the discussion? Following brief presentations of each panelist's responses to these 2 questions, the moderator will take audience questions. The moderator will encourage discussion on the relative value of theory at macro, meso, and micro levels of analysis for understanding the system-wide adoption of integrated care, and new insights for management theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]