Concept | Definition |
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Collective action | Participants in implementation contribute to their progress through work that achieves intervention coherence, cognitive participation, collective action and reflexive monitoring [23]. |
Context | Complex adaptive systems that form the dynamic environment(s) in which implementation processes are situated [25]. |
Coupling | Relations of dependence between actors, intervention components and dynamic elements of contexts. |
Elasticity | The extent to which contexts can be stretched or compressed in ways that make space for intervention components and allow them to fit [89]. |
Emergence | The way in which the ‘global behaviour of a system results from the actions and interactions of agents’ [95] and unfolds unpredictably over time and across space. |
Normative restructuring | Changes to the norms, rules and resources through which participation in implementation processes is structured. |
Plasticity | The extent to which interventions and their components are malleable and can be moulded to fit their contexts. |
Relational restructuring | Changes to the ways that participants in implementation processes are organised and relate to each other. |