Advances in Health Care Organization Theory (eBook)

STEPHEN S. FARNSWORTH MICK, PHD, is professor in the Department of Health Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University and affiliate professor at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, in Lyon, France. PATRICK D. SHAY, PHD, is assistant professor in the Department of Health Care Administration at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Figures and Tables vii

Acknowledgments ix

The Editors xi

The Contributors xiii

1 Introduction: Events, Themes, and Progress 1
Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick and Patrick D. Shay

2 A Primer of Organization Theories in Health Care 25
Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick and Patrick D. Shay

3 Finding Strength in Numbers: Bringing Theoretical Pluralism into the Analysis of Health Care Organizations 53
Jacqueline S. Zinn and S. Diane Brannon

4 Explaining Change in Institutionalized Practices: A Review and Road Map for Research 79
Thomas D'Aunno

5 Mechanisms for Culture Change in US Health Institutions and the Example of the Nursing Home Industry 99
Jane Banaszak-Holl and Rosalind E. Keith

6 Managing to Care: Design and Implementation of Patient- Centered Care Management Teams 125
Douglas R. Wholey, Xi Zhu, David Knoke, Pri Shah, and Katie M. White

7 Remember It Is a Workplace: Health Care Organizations as Sociological Artifacts 153
Timothy Hoff

8 Differentiated, Integrated, and Overlooked: Hospital-Based Clusters 179
Patrick D. Shay, Roice D. Luke, and Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick

9 Profound Change in Medical Technologies: Time to Reexamine the Technology-Structure Nexus in Health Care? 205
Mary L. Fennell, Steven B. Clauser, and Miriam Plavin-Masterman

10 Social Network Analysis and the Integration of Care: Theory and Method 229
Timothy R. Huerta and Roberto Dandi

11 Complexity and Health Care: Tools for Engagement 259
James W. Begun and Marcus Thygeson

12 Synthesis and Convergence: The Maturation of Organization Theory 283
Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick and Patrick D. Shay

References 297

Name Index 355

Subject Index 369