The changes in the US healthcare system since World War II are documented here, from new technologies, service-delivery arrangements, to financing mechanisms and underlying sets of organizing principles. The authors illustrate the work with five types of healthcare organizations.
Institutional Change
While emphasizing sociological approaches to organizations, this text summarizes and comments on the contributions of other disciplines to the study of organization.
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Institutions and Organizations. 3rd edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Scott, W. R., Ruef, M., Caronna, C.A., and Mendel, P. 1. (2000). Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care.
This book is about some of the most important problems confronting social scientists who study institutions and institutional change.
When worlds collide: The internal dynamics of organizational responses to conflicting institutional demands. ... Institutional change and healthcare organizations: From professional dominance to managed care. Chicago, IL: University of ...
a ''West Coast'' paradigm, such Oliver Williamson, actually developed their ideas at East Coast institutions (the University of ... Institutional change and healthcare organizations: From professional dominance to managed care.
The findings of both Chown (2020) and Kellogg (2018) challenge the traditional idea that professionals are self-governing by explicating tactics that managers can use to influence professionals to change their practices.
Institutional Change and Healthcare Organizations: From Professional Dominance to Managed Care. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Selznick, P. (1949). TVA and the Grass Roots. Berkeley: University of California Press.
London: Heinemann Educational Books. Scott, R. W., Ruef, M., Mendel, P., & Caronna, C. (2000). Institutional change and healthcare organizations: From professional dominance to managed care. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.