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Publication Date:
23 Jan 2008
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Imprint:
Palgrave Macmillan
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Description
The fifth title in an ongoing series on organizational behaviour in health care. This edition reveals the handling of organizational politics, power and change asaa core aspect of effective reorganizationsaand explores how health care management research relates to health policy in this politically charged arena.
Contents
Introduction; L.McKee, E.Ferlie & P.Hyde Medicine and Management in English Primary Care: A Shifting balance of Power; R.Sheaff Processes of Change in the Reconfiguration of Hospital Services: The Role of Stakeholder Involvement; N.Fulop, Perri 6 & P.Spurgeon Hospital Sector Organizational Restructuring: Evidence of its Futility; J. Braithwaite, M.T.Westbrook, D.Hindle& R.A.Iedema Decentralization as a Means to Reorganize Health-Care in England: From Theory to Practice; M.Exworthy& I.Greener Va Va Voom, Size Doesn't Matter: Form and Function in the NHS; J.Schofield, R.Sheaff, R.Mannion, B.Dowling, M.Marshall& R.McNally Evidence-Based Management: The Power of Evidence or Evidence of Power; M.Learmonth 'Speaking Truth to Power': On the Discomforts of Researching the Contemporary Policy Process; D.J.Hunter It's Part of the Job: Health Care Restructuring and the health and Safety of Nursery Aides; M.J.O'Sullivan, E.Siqueira, K.Sperrazza, A.Koren, K.D.Melillo, L.A.Hoff, E.M.White-O'Sullivan& C.Slatin Chasing Chameleons, Chimeras and Caterpillers: Evaluating an Organizational Innovation in the National Health Service; C.Pope, A.Le May& J.Gabbay Engaging the Public Voice in Health Care Decision Making; A.Casebeer, G.MacKean, J.Abelson, B.Maloff, R.Musto& P.G.Forest The Swampy Lowland: Using Hyperlinks to Navigate the Multiple Realities of Partnership; M.Macalpine& S.Marsh Systems Thinking for Knowledge Integration: New Models for Policy-Research Collaboration; A.Best, W.K.Trochim, J.Haggerty, G.Moor& C.Norman Strategies of Persuasion: The Efforts of Nurse Practitioners in Institutionalizing a New Role; T.Reay& K.Golden-Biddle Knowledge to Action? The Implications for Policy and Practice of Research on Innovation Processes; L.Fitzgerald, S.Dopson, E.Ferlie& L.Locock Is the Best Defence a Good Offense? Marketing of Quality by U.S Nursing Homes; J.Banaszak-Holl, J.G.Calhoun& L.R.Hearld Models of Medical Work Control: A Theory Elaboration from English General Practice; M.Kitchener& M.Exworthy
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