Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current issues and debates in the field of health care management. It contains over twenty chapters from well-known and eminent academic authors, who were carefully selected for their expertise and asked to provide a broad and criticaloverview of developments in their particular topic area. The development of an international perspective and body of knowledge is a key feature of the book.The Handbook secondly makes a case for bringing back a social science perspective into the study of the field of health care management. It therefore contains a number of contrasting and theoretically orientated chapters (e.g. on institutionalism; critical management studies). This social sciencebased approach is a refreshing alternative to much existing work in this domain and offers a good way into current academic debates in this field.The Handbook thirdly explores a variety of important policy and organizational developments apparent within the current health care field (e.g. new organizational forms; growth of management consulting in health care organizations). It therefore explores and comments on major contemporary trendsapparent in the practice field.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Figures (p. ix)
• List of Tables (p. xi)
• List of Contributors (p. xiii)
• Editors' Introduction: The State of Health Care Management Research: A Critical Overview (p. 1)
• Part I Theoretical and Political Approaches to Health Care Management and Organizations
• 1 Institutionalization and Professionalization (p. 25)
• 2 A New Lens on Organizational Innovations in Health Care: Forms and Functions (p. 45)
• 3 Narratives of Health Policy (p. 72)
• 4 Culture in Health Care Organizations (p. 93)
• 5 The Critical Health Care Management Domain (p. 117)
• Part II People in Health Care Organizations: Patients, Professionals, and Leaders
• 6 Re-humanizing Health Care: Facilitating "Caring" for Patient-centered Care (p. 141)
• 7 Clinical Ethics Support in Contemporary Health Care: Origins, Practices, and Evaluation (p. 164)
• 8 Interprofessional Interactions and their Impact on Professional Boundaries (p. 188)
• 9 Plural Leadership in Health Care Organizations: Forms, Potential, and Challenges (p. 210)
• 10 Effective Team Working in Health Care (p. 231)
• Part III Organizational Processes and Practices in Health Care Management
• 11 Communities of Practice and Situated Learning in Health Care (p. 255)
• 12 Mobilizing Knowledge in Health Care (p. 279)
• 13 A Discursive Approach to Organizational Health Communication (p. 302)
• 14 Patient Safety and Quality (p. 325)
• 15 Implementing E-Health (p. 352)
• 16 The Paradox of Health Care Performance Measurement and Management (p. 375)
• 17 Health Care Transparency in Organizational Perspective (p. 393)
• Part IV Issues in the Health Care Organizational Field
• 18 Re-placing Care: Governing Health Care through Spatial Arrangements (p. 415)
• 19 Inter-Organizational Networks in Health Care: Program Networks, Care Networks, and Integrated Care (p. 434)
• 20 Public-Private Partnerships in Health Care (p. 459)
• 21 Accountability in Health Care (p. 481)
• 22 Pharmaceuticals, Money, and the Health Care Organizational Field (p. 496)
• 23 Management Consulting in Health (p. 517)
• Index (p. 539)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ewan Ferlie is Professor of Public Services Management at King's College London. He has published widely on themes of organizational change and restructuring in public services organizations, especially in health care and also in higher education. He also writes on the relationship betweenprofessionals and managers in health care. He previously co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Public Management. He is currently Hon Chair of the Society for the Study of Organizing in Health Care, a Learned Society which is a constituent member of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.Kathleen Montgomery is Professor of the Graduate Division and Emerita Professor of Organizations and Management at the University of California, Riverside. She has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Stanford, UCLA, and University of Sydney. She is a Past Chair of the Health CareManagement Division of the Academy of Management. She earned a PhD in sociology from New York University, where she worked with Eliot Freidson and began her research on the medical profession and relationships between professionals and their environment. Her current research continues this steam,now focusing on issues of trust, integrity, and behavioral norms.Anne Reff Pedersen is Associate Professor at Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School. Her research field is organizational studies with a particular interest in Health Care Management and on organization theory and organizational ethnography. She has published articles inOrganization, American Review of Public Administration, Management and Management Learning and she has published several books about organizational change, public mangers and management through the patient. She works currently in a research project about health care innovation with a specialinterest on change practices.