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Title Mobilizing knowledge in healthcare : challenges for management and organization / edited by Jacky Swan, Sue Newell, and Davide Nicolini.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 266 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary The divide between research and practice is one of the biggest challenges to healthcare improvement globally. This book builds a research-led, empirically-grounded, state of the art review of how knowledge is mobilised in healthcare settings and the critical challenges involved.
Contents Cover; Mobilizing Knowledge in Healthcare: Challenges for Management and Organization; Copyright; About this Book; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Introduction-Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare; I.1 What is Knowledge Mobilization?; I.2 Opening the Black Box of Knowledge Mobilization; I.2.1 To Study Knowledge Mobilization You Need to Start from Where the Agency Is; I.2.2 Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare Unfolds in a Complex, Nested Ecology; I.2.3 Processes and Practices are Meaningful Units of Analysis.
I.3 The Themes of the Book and How Each Chapter ContributesTheme 1: Understanding How Managers Mobilize Knowledge; Introduction; 1. "Epistemic Fit" and the Mobilization of Management Knowledge in Healthcare; CHAPTER SUMMARY; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Diffusion, Adoption, and "Fit" of Management Knowledge; 1.3 Research Design and Methods; 1.4 Research Findings: Influences on Managers' Use of Management Knowledge; 1.5 Research Findings: The Six Case Studies of Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare; 1.5.1 Oakmore: An Independent Charitable Trust Providing Specialist Clinical Services.
1.5.2 Firgrove AHSC1.5.3 Willowton PCT; 1.5.4 Elmhouse Consulting; 1.5.5 Beechwell: A Health Policy Think Tank; 1.5.6 Mapleshire CLAHRC; 1.6 Discussion; 1.6.1 "Fit, ""Epistemic Fit," and Management Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare; 1.6.2 Knowledge Brokers' Roles in Management Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare; 1.7 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Note; 2. Objects and Monitoring Practices Understanding CEOs' Information Workas Mundane Accomplishment; CHAPTER SUMMARY; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 What We Know about How Managers Deal with Information.
2.2.1 The Promise of a Practice-Based Approach to Managerial Information Work2.3 The Study; 2.3.1 Sample; 2.3.2 Data Collection; 2.3.3 Data Analysis; 2.4 The Information Work of CEOs: Objects in Practice; 2.5 The Information Work of CEOs: Monitoring Practices; 2.5.1 Monitoring Practices: CEOs as Information Seekers; 2.5.2 Deliberate and Non-Directed Heedful Monitoring; 2.5.3 Finding Unexpectedly; 2.6 Discussion and Concluding Thoughts; Acknowledgments; Notes; Theme 2: Developing Organizational Capabilities for Knowledge Mobilization; Introduction.
3. Enhancing Absorptive Capacity of Healthcare Organizations: The Case of Commissioning Service InterventionsCHAPTER SUMMARY; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Absorptive Capacity-a Conceptual Outline; 3.3 Research Design; 3.4 Combinative Capabilities in CCGs for Mobilizing Knowledge; 3.4.1 Acquisition; 3.4.2 Assimilation; 3.4.3 Transformation; 3.4.4 Exploitation; 3.5 Discussion; 3.6 Conclusion; Acknowledgments; 4. Creating and Sustaining the Right Kind of Space for Organizational Learningin Primary Healthcare; CHAPTER SUMMARY; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Space for Organizational Learning.
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Subject Health services administration.
Health services administration.
Knowledge management.
Knowledge management.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Swan, Jacky, editor.
Newell, Susan, editor.
Nicolini, Davide, editor.
Added Title Mobilizing knowledge in health care
Other Form: Print version: Mobilizing knowledge in healthcare. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016 9780198738237 0198738234
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9780198738237
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