Using Action Research and Organization Design to Plan In-home Hospital Treatment
Research in Organizational Change and Development
ISBN: 978-1-80262-174-7, eISBN: 978-1-80262-173-0
Publication date: 26 November 2021
Abstract
Health-care systems currently face great challenges, including an increasing elderly population. To respond to this problem, a hospital emergency department, three municipalities, and self-employed general practitioners in Denmark decided to collaborate with the aim of reorganizing treatment of elderly acute ill patients. By establishing a small-scale collaborative community and through an action research process, we show, how to jointly explore and develop a new organization design for in-home hospital treatment that enables the health professionals to collaborate in new ways, and at the same time to investigate and improve this cocreation process and codesign of knowledge among multiple different stakeholders.
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Acknowledgment
I would like to thank Professor David Coghlan for sharing his extensive knowledge about action research with me and the collaborators within this action research project. I would also like to thank Professor Børge Obel for reading and commenting on this manuscript.
Citation
Duvald, I. (2021), "Using Action Research and Organization Design to Plan In-home Hospital Treatment", (Rami) Shani, A.B. and Noumair, D.A. (Ed.) Research in Organizational Change and Development (Research in Organizational Change and Development, Vol. 29), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 111-142. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0897-301620210000029006
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