Chak, Choi Wai (Maggie)

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For decades, Community-Academic Health Partnership (CAHP) has been a common form of collaborative, networked organisation that aims to address complex health problems and bridge the knowledge-practice gaps in health care. However, many CAHP projects fail to prove their added value to society due to resource intensiveness, structural complexity, and lacking performance or sustainability. This dissertation employs different theoretical lenses from an Organisational Behaviour (OB) perspective to scrutinise how project workers and leaders perceive and respond to these challenges and constraints inherent in their CAHP environments to pursue high project performance.This dissertation introduces, reports, and discusses three stand-alone yet intertwined empirical chapters based on two quantitative and qualitative field studies. Each chapter unravels the complex dynamics of an enabler of highly performing partnership processes (namely workers’ perceptions of project goals, workers’ perceived sufficiency of project resources, and effective project leaders(hip), respectively) in meeting various challenges and constraints and enhancing project performance in diverse CAHP settings. This research presents theory-driven, evidence-based findings of CAHP practice and offers recommendations to guide practitioners, leaders, policymakers, and funders toward better planning, management, and functioning of CAHPs

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Towards highly performing community-academic health partnerships

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Towards highly performing community-academic health partnerships

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