Advances in health care organization theory - Stephen S. Mick

Advances in Health Care Organization Theory
outlines the current trends in health care organizations and organizational development. The profound events, changes, and innovations that have characterized the health care delivery system in the course of the past ten years are examined in this informative and much–needed edited collection, perfect for students of health care administration .
This prestigious collection includes articles from contributors who are among the best–known faculty in health care administration such as Richard Scott, Steven Shortell, Jeffrey Alexander, Douglas Wholey, and Robert Burns. These experts explore a wide variety of topics in
Advances in Health Care Organization
theory including:

• The Evolving World of Health Care Organizations


• Understanding Health Care Markets


• When Institutions Collide


• Physician–Organization Relationships


• Understanding Health Care Markets


• Sustaining Long–Term Change and Effectiveness in Community Health Networks


• Quality as an Organizational Problem


• Trust as Force in Health Care Organization Theory


• Health Care Organizations as Complex Adaptive Systems


• Lessons Learned from the 1990s 'Revolution' in Health Care


• Research and Policy Implications

"The book is a must–read for anyone who wants to understand the modern economic, sociological, and institutional bases for health care organizations and an essential review for those of us who need to 'rediscover' these bases and understand where the mixture of proven theory and futuristic reasoning is likely to take us."

W. Jack Duncan, professor of management and University Scholar Graduate School of Management and School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham