Invited Speaker
Dr Mara Sintejudeanu
Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management
Atlantic Technological University Ireland
This study examines how governance of a mandated public sector hospital network is implemented and the challenges the implementation poses for accountability and governance. Adopting a whole network perspective, we conducted a case study of one mandated hospital network in Ireland. Our findings show that the espoused NAO (Network Administrative Organization) governance model was unable to respond to the accountability and governance challenges that arose. We identify how pre-existing bonding social capital between the “centralised network broker” (the Network Administrative Organisation) and the hub hospital limited the potential for social capital to expand from a private to a public good that could benefit the network as a whole. We draw attention to the importance of monitoring social capital development during network governance implementation and to how opposing poles of network tensions are managed.
About the presenter:
Mara has a strong research background and almost a decade of industry experience as Senior Economist in a public teaching hospital, Business Manager and Main Inspector at the National Agency for Fiscal Administration. She completed her PhD at the University of Galway, Ireland. Currently, Mara holds the position of Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at Atlantic Technological University Ireland and programme coordinator for the MScs in Supply Chain Analytics and Healthcare Innovation and Technology programmes. She is a member of the Operations and Supply Chain Research (OSCAR) group at Atlantic Technological University Ireland. Mara’s research examines governance structures and operations management in mandated hospital networks and has a strong focus on Social Capital theory and its application in networks and supply chains. Her research was awarded the Best Paper Award for Young Scholars at the European Institute for Advance Studies in Management 2018 conference. Mara has been successfully involved in securing research fundings to support scholarly activity, including the Irish Research Council (IRC) postgraduate scholarship and TU RISE funding. Mara is involved in supervision of PhD and Masters projects and provides consultancy services on EU projects at Atlantic Technological University Ireland on topics such as implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Engineering education and promotion of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) awareness in SMEs.
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This event is part of our regular webinar sessions for social capital researchers including PhD/master students. These sessions include invited presentations from prominent scholars as well as presentations by PhD students and experts in professional practice.
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