Organizing and Reorganizing: Power and Change in Health Care Organizations

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii
Medicine and Management in English Primary Care: A Shifting Balance of Power?....Pages 1-18
Processes of Change in the Reconfiguration of Hospital Services: The Role of Stakeholder Involvement....Pages 19-32
Hospital Sector Organisational Restructuring: Evidence of Its Futility....Pages 33-45
Decentralization as a Means to Reorganize Health-Care in England: From Theory to Practice?....Pages 46-58
Va Va Voom, Size Doesn’t Matter: Form and Function in the NHS....Pages 59-74
Evidence-Based Management: The Power of Evidence or Evidence of Power?....Pages 75-86
‘Speaking Truth to Power’: On the Discomforts of Researching the Contemporary Policy Process....Pages 87-98
It’s Part of the Job: Healthcare Restructuring and the Health and Safety of Nursing Aides....Pages 99-111
Chasing Chameleons, Chimeras and Caterpillars: Evaluating an Organizational Innovation in the National Health Service....Pages 112-122
Engaging the Public Voice in Health Care Decision-Making....Pages 123-138
The Swampy Lowland: Using Hyperlinks to Navigate the Multiple Realities of Partnership....Pages 139-153
Systems Thinking for Knowledge Integration: New Models for Policy-Research Collaboration....Pages 154-166
Strategies of Persuasion: The Efforts of Nurse Practitioners in Institutionalizing a New Role....Pages 167-179
Knowledge to Action? The Implications for Policy and Practice of Research on Innovation Processes....Pages 180-193
Is the Best Defense a Good Offense? Marketing of Quality by US Nursing Homes....Pages 194-208
Models of Medical Work Control: A Theory Elaboration from English General Practice....Pages 209-223
Back Matter....Pages 224-235