Advances in Health Care Organization Theory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mick, Stephen S.

Contributor:

Shay, Patrick D.

Goldberg, Debora.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health facilities.

Medical care.

Organization--Research.

Organization -- Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Somerset : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

The Editors

The Contributors

Chapter 1 Introduction: Events, Themes, and Progress

Environmental and Market Changes in Health Care in the 2000s

Legislation and Regulation

Other Events and Environmental Changes

Disaster Planning and Preparedness

Scrutiny of Business Practices

Consolidation into Systems and Clusters

Health Care Financing and Reimbursement Trends

Advances in Technology

Heightened Emphasis on Quality

Changing Environment for Physicians

Changes in Patients and Patient Needs

Shift to Ambulatory and Outpatient Care

Economic Crisis and Recession of 2008

Additional Trends

Conclusion: Underlying Themes

Book Chapters

Chapter 2 A Primer of Organization Theories in Health Care

Organization Theories in Health Care

Structural Contingency Theory

Resource Dependence Theory

Institutional Theory

Population Ecology

Principal-Agent Theory

Transaction Cost Economics

Other Theories

Interaction among Theories

Conclusion

Chapter 3 Finding Strength in Numbers: Bringing Theoretical Pluralism into the Analysis of Health Care Organizations

Major Themes from the 2003 Edition: Progress, Detour, or Impasse?

Institutional versus Market Forces as the Prevailing Theoretical Paradigm

Inside the Black Box: The Evidence for Evidence-Based Management in Health Care Organizations

Paradigms Avoiding Oversimplification: The Promise of Complexity and Chaos Theory in Advancing Problem-Driven Research

Toward Theoretical Pluralism

Care Transitions: One Problem, Several Facets

Diversity and the Principle of Requisite Variety

Interdependence in Care Transitions and New Perspectives on Work Design

Coordination Structures: What Lies Beneath?

Conclusion.

Chapter 4 Explaining Change in Institutionalized Practices: A Review and Road Map for Research

Conceptual Background

The Nature of Institutional Change

Explanations for Institutional Change

Process Models of Institutional Change

A Field-Level Model

Process Models of Institutional Entrepreneurship

Change Processes within Organizations

Application: Institutional Change in the Health Care Field

Models of Institutional Change and Health Care Reform

Chapter 5 Mechanisms for Culture Change in US Health Institutions and the Example of the Nursing Home Industry

The Context for Nursing Home Culture Change

Culture Change as a Form of Organizational Change

Three Elements of Restructuring: Communication, Leadership, and Training

Formal Communications

Direct Leadership

Programs for Training and Development

Approaches to Studying Culture Change

Chapter 6 Managing to Care: Design and Implementation of Patient-Centered Care Management Teams

Care Team Conceptualizations

The Coordination Problem

Defining Care Management Teams

Care Management Team Context-Mechanism-Outcome Configurations

Designing Care Management Teams

The Role of Fidelity

A Real Team

Team Size and Workload

Task Scope and Team Composition

Division of Labor

Coordination

Embedding: Care Management Team Networks

Implementing Care Management Teams

A Conceptual Model

Relational Aspects of Team Implementation

Chapter 7 Remember It Is a Workplace: Health Care Organizations as Sociological Artifacts

Routines

Emotions

Roles, Careers, and Identities

Work

A Word about Context

Chapter 8 Differentiated, Integrated, and Overlooked: Hospital-Based Clusters

Hospital-Based Clusters

Clusters: A Brief History

Two Decades of Change.

Cluster Integration and Differentiation

Spatial Proximity and Service Capacities

Differentiation and Integration within Clusters

Vertical versus Horizontal Differentiation and Integration

Evidence of Vertical Differentiation

Service Differentiation

Case Differentiation

Explaining Cluster Forms Using a Multitheoretical Perspective

Chapter 9 Profound Change in Medical Technologies: Time to Reexamine the Technology-Structure Nexus in Health Care?

Update on Structural Contingency Models

How to Conceptualize Genomic Medicine

Genomic Medicine and Cancer Treatment: Uncertainty and Multiple Barriers

The Political Side of Disruptive Technologies

The Liability of Newness within Organizations: Multidisciplinary Care Delivery Teams and Genomic Medicine

The Liability of Newness as a Multilevel Problem: MDCs and Billing

Disruptive Technologies and the Upheaval of Traditional Status Hierarchies

Structural Gaps between Genomic Medicine Requirements and Health Care Organizational Capacity

Chapter 10 Social Network Analysis and the Integration of Care: Theory and Method

Social Network Analysis: A Multitheory, Multilevel Framework

Strategic Choice

Natural Selection

Collective Action

System-Structural

SNA Requires More Than Two Actors

Actors, Cliques, and Collectives: Levels of Analysis in SNA Metrics

Actor-Focused Metrics and Research

Mesolevel Metrics and Research

Network-Level Metrics and Research

Note

Chapter 11 Complexity and Health Care: Tools for Engagement

What Is Complexity Science?

Appeal of Complexity Science

Intellectual Appeal

Practical Appeal

Modest Use of Complexity Science in Health Care

Reasons for Modest Use of Complexity Science in Health Care

Scientific Tools for Engaging Complexity.

System Dynamics, Simulation, and Modeling

Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis

Social Network Analysis

Positive Deviance

Adaptive Leadership

Chapter 12 Synthesis and Convergence: The Maturation of Organization Theory

Conceptual Similarities

Intersection of Different Levels of Analysis: Macro, Meso, and Micro

Standardization versus Improvisation and Adaptation

What We Observe in Emerging Forms: Accountable Care Organizations and Primary Care Medical Homes

Synthesizing Perspectives

Specific Synthetic Approaches

Conclusion: Paradox

References

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Mick, Stephen S. Advances in Health Care Organization Theory

ISBN:

9781118862780

OCLC:

881887714