Values, Rationality, and Power : Developing Organizational Wisdom : a case study of a Canadian healthcare authority /

Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom demonstrates that organizations can act wisely. A critical realist framework and phonetic research approach is used to perform an embedded single case study of a group's attempt to develop and spread a medical innovation within a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Anderson, Brad C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bingley : Emerald Publishing, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Critical management studies (Series)
Subjects:
Organizational behavior.
Comportement organisationnel.
Health systems & services.
Medical > Health Policy.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Study Overview
  • Chapter 2 Overview of Organizational Wisdom
  • Chapter 3 Values and Rationality
  • Chapter 4 Power and the Nature of Pluralistic Organizations
  • Chapter 5 Theoretical Frameworks
  • Chapter 6 Methods
  • Chapter 7 The Values Inherent in the Seniors Programme
  • Chapter 8 Managing Executive Resistance
  • Chapter 9 Binding the Organization to the Seniors Programme
  • Chapter 10 Multiple Rationalities at Play
  • Chapter 11 Reifying Power
  • Chapter 12 Structures Constraining Spread
  • Chapter 13 Structures Enabling Spread
  • Chapter 14 Discussion: Values, Rationality, and Power
  • Chapter 15 Was the Use of Power Consistent with the Values of Canada's Healthcare System?
  • Chapter 16 What's to Be Done? Facilitating the Development of Organizational Wisdom
  • Chapter 17 Wisdom's Future

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