1st Edition

Analysing Health Care Organizations A Personal Anthology

By Ewan Ferlie Copyright 2016
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

Analysing Health Care Organizations seeks to link the world of health policy and management with the academic field of organization studies in a novel and additive way. It outlines the main developments in UK health care management apparent over the last thirty years and explores how they might be (re)seen with the application of some important organizational theories and... Read more

1. Introduction and Rationale  2. Professional Dominance Theory Restated  3. The Shock of the New Public Management: UK Health Care Organizations Transformed?  4. Network Governance Reforms: A Post NPM Reform Narrative?  5. Governmentality and Health Care Organizations  6. Organizational Development and the Diffusion of Innovations  7. The New Institutionalism and the Analysis of Health Care Fields  8. Change Management Knowledge in Health Care Organizations – Analysing a Knowledge Production System  9. Knowledge and Knowledge Mobilization in Health Care Organizations  10. Professionalism and Managerialism Revisited: On ‘Getting Doctors into Management’  11. Concluding Remarks

Biography

Ewan Ferlie is Professor of Public Services Management and Head of the Department of Management at King’s College London, UK.