Gebundenes Buch

Context in Action and How to Study It

Illustrations from Health Care

Herausgeber: Meier, Ninna; Dopson, Sue

Beschreibung

This book explores the role of context and its link to action in organization and management theory, illustrated by examples from health care research. It discusses how context, action, and process are interwoven and provides a methodological approach to study context in action.

Autor

Ninna Meier is Associate Professor in Organizational Sociology at Aalbord University. She researches organization, leadership, and management of healthcare work with qualitative methods, and is currently working on a multi-level process study of integrative conditions and mechanisms in five cross-sectoral collaboration processes concerning citizens, whose needs call for services across hospital, GP, and municipality services. She is also a co-founder of The Open Writing Community, where she experiments with and writes about the role of academic writing in researcher-practitioner collaborations and impact beyond academia. Sue Dopson is The Rhodes Trust Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Saïd Business School and Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. Her research centres on transformational change and knowledge exchange in the public and healthcare sectors. She has written and edited many major works on this topic and her research has informed and influenced government bodies such as the Department of Health and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in their thinking on areas such as the dissemination of clinical evidence into practice, medical leadership, and the role of the support worker in the NHS. She formerly worked as a personnel manager in the NHS before pursuing a research and academic career, and currently represents the University of Oxford as Non-Executive Director of the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 166mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 631g
• ISBN-13: 9780198805304
• ISBN-10: 0198805306
• Artikelnr.: 55458610