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   "text": "Governance of health care providers is distinctively complicated because directors must balance patients, physicians, taxpayers, the government, and shareholders, and substantial government involvement and liability through Medicare and Medicaid make the taxpaying public a stakeholder.",
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   "text": "Inclusive and unmediated stakeholder relationships demand a much higher degree of cooperation, loyalty, and mutual trust than control-oriented, centralized, and vertical organizational forms do.",
   "abstract": "Compared to the more control-oriented, centralized, and vertical organizational forms, inclusive and unmediated relationships among firms' stakeholders require a high degree of cooperation, loyalty, and mutual trust.",
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   "text": "What distinguishes a platform style organization is not its technology but its internal organization: it uses stakeholder input and feedback to continuously improve user experience and engagement with its products and services.",
   "abstract": "What makes a platform-style of organization distinctive is that it uses stakeholders' input and feedback to improve the user experience and engagement with the platform and its products, services, and other solutions.",
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   "text": "In the most successful firms governance is no longer about hierarchy or control; it is about creating a flat, open and inclusive ecosystem that leverages the talents of all stakeholders in the company's network.",
   "abstract": "In the best and most successful firms, governance is no longer about hierarchy or control. Instead, the focus is on creating a flat, open and inclusive organizational environment or \"eco-system\" that leverages the talents of all stakeholders in that company's network.",
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