Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acronyms; 1 Introduction and Rationale; 2 Professional Dominance Theory Restated; 3 The Shock of the New Public Management: UK Health Care Organizations Transformed?; 4 Network Governance Reforms: A Post-NPM-Reform Narrative?; 5 Governmentality and Health Care Organizations; 6 Organizational Development and the Diffusion of Innovations; 7 The New Institutionalism and the Analysis of Health Care Fields; 8 Change Management Knowledge in Health Care Organizations: Analysing a Knowledge Production System
9 Knowledge and Knowledge Mobilization in Health Care Organizations10 Professionalism and Managerialism Revisited: On 'Getting Doctors Into Management'; 11 Concluding Remarks; Appendix: Some Methodological Notes: On Writing This Book as a Personal Review; Bibliography; Index
Summary
'Analysing Health Care Organizations' outlines the main developments in UK health care management over the last thirty years and explores how they might be (re)seen with the application of some important organisational theories and perspectives
