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Table 4 Synthesis of C & M(s) = > O(s) configurations

From: Feedback on clinical team performance: how does it work, in what contexts, for whom, and for what changes? A critical realist qualitative multiple case study

Key components

Type 1 configuration

Type 2 configuration

Context

Decision structure

Centralized

Distributed

Mechanism

Agency in controversies

Adapting and avoiding controversies

Addressing controversies

Mechanism

Mediation by feedback loops

Accreting and negotiating imperatives

Transforming context and practices

Mechanism

Mediation by adding intermediaries

Technical ones adapted to the context and practices

Hybrid ones that reconfigure the context and practices

Outcomes

Meeting expectations and maintaining interrelationships

Emergence of original solutions and transformation interrelationships