@article{1440275,
      recid = {1440275},
      author = {Kislov, Roman, and Burns, Diane, and Mørk, Bjørn Erik, and  Montgomery, Kathleen,},
      title = {Managing healthcare organisations in challenging policy  contexts /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {Healthcare managers, professionals and service users  operate in an increasingly complex environment in terms of  policy, regulation and governance arrangements. The policy  process is becoming pluralised as competing narratives are  drawn upon to influence practice. A wide range of  contradictory and inconsistent policies are on offer to  healthcare stakeholders, which ultimately results in a  broad spectrum of responses, adaptations and improvisations  throughout the process of policy implementation. The impact  on managerial and professional practice is significant:  Whilst some voices are suppressed or ignored, the complex  nature of contemporary policy contexts can also help local  actors exercise their agency and advance their agenda. This  edited volume investigates how contemporary policy trends  are influencing healthcare systems, organisations and  professions and explores the various ways in which policy  implementation could be enacted, resisted and reinvented by  healthcare managers and professionals on the ground. It  sheds light on the complex web of connections that exist  between policy development (Part I), its translation into  practice (Part II), and the activities of organisational  leaders who are trying their best to make sense of and  succeed in challenging policy contexts (Part III). Roman  Kislov is Director of the Decent Work and Productivity  Research Centre in Manchester Metropolitan University and  Deputy Theme Lead for Implementation Science in the  National Institute for Health Research Applied Research  Collaboration (NIHR ARC) Greater Manchester. He is  Secretary of the Society for Studies in Organising Health  Care (SHOC). Diane Burns is Senior Lecturer in Organisation  Studies at Sheffield University Management School. She is  Deputy Chair of SHOC and serves on the Leadership Group of  the Sustainable Care Research Programme funded by the UK  Economic and Social Research Council. Bjrn Erik Mrk is  Professor of Innovation, Research Centre Leader for the  Centre for Healthcare Management and Programme Director for  Healthcare Management at BI Norwegian Business School.  Kathleen Montgomery is Professor of the Graduate Division  and Emerita Professor of Organisations and Management at  the University of California, Riverside. She is a Fellow of  the Academy of Social Sciences.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1440275},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81093-1},
}