Health Care Research and Organization Theory

This Element, examines organization theory and how healthcare researchers have drawn on organization theory in healthcare management.

Trish Reay (Author), Elizabeth Goodrick (Author), Thomas D'Aunno (Author)

9781009005180, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 August 2021

75 pages
22.1 x 15.1 x 0.5 cm, 0.15 kg

In this Element, we examine how organizational researchers have published articles contributing to organization theory in high quality organizational journals, and we examine how healthcare researchers have drawn on organization theory in healthcare management journals. We have two main aims in writing this Element. The first is to motivate scholars working in the field of general organizational and management studies to increasingly use healthcare settings as an empirical context for their work in theory development. Our second aim is to encourage healthcare researchers to increase their use of organizational theory to advance knowledge about the provision of healthcare services. Our investigations revealed a growing number of organizational studies situated in healthcare. We also found a disappointing level of connection between research published in organization journals and research published in healthcare journals. We provide explanations for this division, and encourage more crossdisciplinary work in the future.

1. Introduction to Healthcare Research and Organization Theory
2. How Researchers Use Healthcare Empirical Settings to Develop Organizational Theory
3. How Healthcare Studies Use Organizational Theory
4. Conclusions and Future Research Opportunities
References.

Subject Areas: Medicine: general issues [MB], Organizational theory & behaviour [KJU], Health economics [KCQ]