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Healthcare board governance
Naomi ChambersIn the light of failings of the board highlighted by the mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry, this paper seeks to offer insights about how boards in general…
Reforms and clinical managers' responses: a study in Norwegian hospitals
Inger Johanne Pettersen, Kari NylandThis paper seeks to explore the legitimacy of budgets as management control processes in hospitals after comprehensive reforms were implemented in the Norwegian hospital sector in…
Organizational culture, intersectoral collaboration and mental health care
Penelope Fay Mitchell, Philippa Eleanor PattisonThis study aims to investigate whether and how organizational culture moderates the influence of other organizational capacities on the uptake of new mental health care roles by…
Health tourism: definition focused on the Swiss market and conceptualisation of health(i)ness
Susanne Hofer, Franziska Honegger, Jonas HubeliThis paper's purpose is to give an overview of current research regarding the concept of “health tourism” with a focus on Switzerland, and to determine whether a consensus on this…
Primary care in the United States: practice‐based innovations and factors that influence adoption
Debora Goetz GoldbergThis study aims to explore the use of specific innovations in primary care practices. The research seeks to examine whether a relationship exists between environmental factors and…
Age‐related attitudes: the influence on relationships and performance at work
Franz Josef Gellert, René SchalkThis paper aims to examine the influence of age and age‐related attitudes on relationship factors. In addition, it seeks to assess how both factors affect care service work…
Discursive construction of polyphony in healthcare management
Anneli Hujala, Sari RissanenThe aim of the paper is to understand and define how the polyphony of management is constructed in interaction and to describe this through concrete management meeting cases…
