TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Following the spirit of an earlier volume in the series focusing on ‘Comparative Approaches to Organizational Research’, the mandate of the current volume is to provide a comparative account of dynamics across two organizational fields – health care and higher education – and, subsequently, two specific types of organizational forms – hospitals and universities. In so doing, we take a broader perspective encompassing various conceptual and theoretical points of departure emanating from, mostly, the institutional literature in the social sciences (and its various perspectives), but also from public policy and administration literatures – of relevance to scholars and the communities of practice working within either field. In this introductory paper to the volume, we provide a brief overview of developments across the two organizational fields and illuminate on the most important scholarly traditions underpinning the study of both system dynamics as a whole as well as universities and hospitals as organizations and institutions. We conclude by reflecting on the implication of the volume’s key findings in regards to comparative research within organizational studies.
VL  - 45
SN  - 978-1-78560-274-0, 978-1-78560-275-7/0733-558X
DO  - 10.1108/S0733-558X20150000045011
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20150000045011
AU  - Pinheiro Rómulo
AU  - Geschwind Lars
AU  - Ramirez Francisco O.
AU  - Vrangbæk Karsten
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - The Value in Comparing Organizational Fields and Forms
T2  - Towards A Comparative Institutionalism: Forms, Dynamics And Logics Across The Organizational Fields Of Health Care And Higher Education
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 9
EP  - 32
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -