Organizing and reorganizing : power and change in health care organizations

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Medicine and management in English primary care: a shifting balance of power? / Rod Sheaff -- Processes of change in the reconfiguration of hospital services: the role of stakeholder involvement / Naomi Fulop, Perri 6 and Peter Spurgeon -- Hospital sector organisational restructuring: evidence of its futility / Jeffrey Braithwaite ... [et al.] -- Decentralization as a means to reorganize health-care in England: from theory to practice? / Mark Exworthy and Ian Greener -- Va va voom, size doesn't matter: form and function in the NHS / Jill Schofield ... [et al.] -- Evidence-based management: the power of evidence or evidence of power? / Mark Learmonth -- 'Speaking truth to power': on the discomforts of researching the contemporary policy process / David J. Hunter -- It's part of the job: healthcare restructuring and the health and safety of nursing aides / Michael J. O'Sullivan ... [et al.] -- Chasing chameleons, chimeras and caterpillars: evaluating an organizational innovation in the National Health Service / Catherine Pope, Andrée le May and John Gabbay -- Engaging the public voice in health care decision-making / Ann Casebeer ... [et al.] -- The swampy lowland: using hyperlinks to navigate the multiple realities of partnership / Marion Macalpine and Sheila Marsh -- Systems thinking for knowledge integration: new models for policy-research collaboration / Allan Best ... [et al.] -- Strategies of persuasion: the efforts of nurse practitioners in institutionalizing a new role / Trish Reay and Karen Golden-Biddle -- Knowledge to action? the implications for policy and practice of research on innovation processes / Louise Fitzgerald ... [et al.] -- Is the best defense a good offense? marketing of quality by U.S. nursing homes / Jane Banaszak-Holl, Judith G. Calhoun and Larry R. Hearld -- Models of medical work control: a theory elaboration from English general practice / Martin Kitchener and Mark Exworthy.