1st Edition

Managing Modern Healthcare Knowledge, Networks and Practice

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Until now, research has given us only a limited understanding of how managers actually make sense of and apply management knowledge; how networks of interaction amongst managers help or hinder processes of knowledge diffusion and the sharing of best practice; and how these processes are all influenced both by the organisations in which managers act and by the professional communities of practice... Read more

1. Managing Healthcare: Themes and Issues

2. Contextualizing Healthcare Management

3. Studying Management in Healthcare

4. Being a Manager

5. Becoming a Manager

6. Managers Knowing

7. Managers Networking

8. Managing Healthcare: Tensions and Prospects

Biography

Mike Bresnen is Professor of Organization Studies at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK.

Damian Hodgson is Professor of Organizational Analysis at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK.

Simon Bailey is a Research Fellow at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK.

Paula Hyde is Professor of Organization Studies at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK.

John Hassard is Professor of Organizational Analysis at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK.