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Sense‐making by clinical and non‐clinical executive directors within new governance arrangements
John Storey, Richard HoltiThe purpose of this paper is to explore the various ways in which clinical executive directors and non‐clinical executive directors are interpreting and responding to the…
Determinants of out‐of‐pocket expenditures on prescribed medications in Tajikistan: Implications for healthcare sector reform
Nazim HabibovThe purpose of this paper is to quantify the impact of socio‐economic characteristics on out‐of pocket expenditures for prescribed medications in Tajikistan and provide…
Knowledge sources affecting decision‐making among social and health care managers
Outi Simonen, Elina Viitanen, Juhani Lehto, Anna‐Maija KoivistoThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how managers in social and health care evaluate the knowledge sources affecting their decision‐making, and how the evaluations were…
Leadership for health improvement – implementation and evaluation
Susan M. Carr, Monique Lhussier, Joanna Reynolds, David J. Hunter, Catherine HannawayThe purpose of this paper is to present a co‐authored reflection on the health improvement leadership development programme and the key evaluation messages derived from piloting…
Stereotypical images between physicians and managers in hospitals
A.H.J. Klopper‐Kes, N. Meerdink, W.H. van Harten, C.P.M. WilderomThe purpose of this paper is to apply the image theory to the hospital context in order to add a perspective into the known complex relationship between physicians and hospital…
Learning from dialogue groups – physicians' perceptions of role
David Bergman, Emelie Stotzer, Rolf Wahlström, Christer SandahlThe purpose of this paper is to examine the aspects of being a physician that such medical professionals mention in dialogue groups when given the opportunity to choose their own…
Logics of pre‐merger decision‐making processes: The case of Karolinska University Hospital
Soki Choi, Mats BrommelsThe purpose of this paper is to examine how and why a decision to merge two university hospitals in a public context might occur by using an in‐depth case study of the pre‐merger…
Distributed leadership to mobilise capacity for accreditation research
David Greenfield, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Marjorie Pawsey, Brian Johnson, Maureen RobinsonInquiries into healthcare organisations have highlighted organisational or system failure, attributed to poor responses to early warning signs. One response, and challenge, is for…
