The research questions considered how employees are managed, especially in terms of leader employee relationships, career-development opportunities for employees, inclusion of employees in change implementation and innovation implementation processes, and organizational motivation in participating Slovenian hospitals.
According to the DOI theory, the spread of information about an innovation and the implementation process is influenced by four factors: innovation attributes, communication channels, adopter characteristics, and adaptation.
The IDIs with YMI facilitators aimed to capture any challenges and innovations in the implementation process, particularly related to students' receptiveness and sustained engagement.
Although their role varied, they served as a liaison with other physicians in order to obtain approval and advocate throughout the organization for the innovation, and actively supported the implementation process (Tooman 2007).
Notwithstanding a shared commitment to the project's vision of street design innovation for health gain, the collaboration and implementation process has been challenging.
These questions focused on the characteristics of the innovation and factors related to the implementation process, and were based on former research described in the background to this article.
In the study, the implementation process concerned a specific innovation in the lifestyle intervention area and implementation of other innovations may follow other patterns.
We chose this framework since it explores the dynamic process between communication and innovation implementation in a social context.
The central topics of the collaboratives organized by the external change agents can be seen as the innovations that will determine team focus during the implementation process.
These factors are organised into five constructs: the characteristics of the innovation, individuals involved, inner setting, outer setting and the implementation process [ 31- 34].
