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Advances in Health Care Organization Theory
About This Book
Explore the evolution of organization theory in the health care sector
Advances in Health Care Organization Theory, 2nd Edition, introduces students in health administration to the fields of organization theory and organizational behavior and their application to the management of health care organizations. The book explores the major health care developments over the past decade and demonstrates the contribution of organization theory to a deeper understanding of the changes in the delivery system, including the historic passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Taking both a micro and macro view, editors Stephen S. Mick and Patrick D. Shay, collaborate with a roster of contributing experts to compile a comprehensive volume that covers the latest in organization theory. Topics include:
- Institutional and neo-institutional theory
- Patient-centered practices and organizational culture change
- Design and implementation of patient-centered care management teams
- Hospital-based clusters as new organizational structures
- Application of social network theory to health care
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- The Editors
- The Contributors
- Chapter 1: Introduction: Events, Themes, and Progress
- Chapter 2: A Primer of Organization Theories in Health Care
- Chapter 3: Finding Strength in Numbers: Bringing Theoretical Pluralism into the Analysis of Health Care Organizations
- Chapter 4: Explaining Change in Institutionalized Practices: A Review and Road Map for Research
- Chapter 5: Mechanisms for Culture Change in Health Institutions and the Example of the Nursing Home Industry
- Chapter 6: Managing to Care: Design and Implementation of Patient-Centered Care Management Teams
- Chapter 7: Remember It Is a Workplace: Health Care Organizations as Sociological Artifacts
- Chapter 8: Differentiated, Integrated, and Overlooked: Hospital-Based Clusters
- Chapter 9: Profound Change in Medical Technologies: Time to Reexamine the Technology-Structure Nexus in Health Care?
- Chapter 10: Social Network Analysis and the Integration of Care: Theory and Method
- Chapter 11: Complexity and Health Care: Tools for Engagement
- Chapter 12: Synthesis and Convergence: The Maturation of Organization Theory
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
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