Case Study I: Peripheral

Abstract

This chapter describes the practice-theoretical model of reflexive leadership in networks by means of the case study “Peripheral”. Peripheral is a healthcare network in a rural Swiss region, initiated on January 1, 2007. The chapter illustrates how a regional leadership constellation formed a well-integrated healthcare network between 2003 and 2013. Over these years, the leadership constellation successfully coordinated initially fragmented back-office and patient-centered activities among a regional hospital, an outpatient care organization, a thermal spa, and additional regional social services organizations. At the end of the observation period in 2013, the network counted as a pioneering integrated care network in Switzerland.