Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 27 Issue 1

Who do we think we are?: Analysing the content and form of identity work in the English National Health Service

Imelda McDermott, Kath Checkland, Stephen Harrison, Stephanie Snow, Anna Coleman

The language used by National Health Service (NHS) “commissioning” managers when discussing their roles and responsibilities can be seen as a manifestation of “identity work”…

Schools' absorptive capacity to innovate in health promotion

Marthe Deschesnes, Nathalie Drouin, Yves Couturier

A comprehensive “health promoting schools” (HPS) approach is advocated by the World Health Organization to foster the health of students. To date, few studies have evaluated…

Process antecedents of challenging, under‐cover and readily‐adopted innovations

Richard Adams, David Tranfield, David Denyer

The purpose of the study is to test the utility of a taxonomy of innovation based on perceived characteristics in the context of healthcare by exploring the extent to which…

Healthcare performance turned into decision support

Christian Michel Sørup, Peter Jacobsen

The purpose of this study is to first create an overview of relevant factors directly influencing employee absence in the healthcare sector. The overview is used to further…

An evaluation of staff engagement programmes in four National Health Service Acute Trusts

Alistair Hewison, Nicola Gale, Rowena Yeats, Jonathan Shapiro

The purpose of this paper is to report the findings from an evaluation project conducted to investigate the impact of two staff engagement programmes introduced to four National…

Structuring agency: Examining healthcare management in the USA and Australia using organizational theory

Julianne Payne, Jeffrey Leiter

Since the 1970s, the healthcare industry has undergone significant changes. Using neo‐institutional and resource dependency theories, the purpose of this paper is to explore how…

Thinking about the emotional labour of nursing – supporting nurses to care

Yvonne Sawbridge, Alistair Hewison

The aim of this article is to report some of the work undertaken by a nursing “think tank”, focussed on examining the causes of poor nursing care in hospitals, and potential…

Illusions of team working in health care

Michael A. West, Joanne Lyubovnikova

The ubiquity and value of teams in healthcare are well acknowledged. However, in practice, healthcare teams vary dramatically in their structures and effectiveness in ways that…