Main description:

The book examines ongoing dynamics within the organizational fields of health and higher education, with a focus on collective (public universities and hospitals) and individual (professionals) actors, structures, processes and institutional logics. The fact that universities and hospitals share a number of important characteristics, both being hybrid organizations, professional bureaucracies, and operating within highly institutionalised environments, they are also characterised by their distinctive features such as the importance attributed to scientific autonomy and prestige (universities) and the needs and expectations of users and funders (hospitals). The volume brings together two relatively distinct scholarly traditions within the social sciences, namely, scholars - sociologists, educationalists, economists, political scientists and public administration researchers, etc. - involved with the study of change dynamics within the fields of health care and higher education in Europe and beyond. The authors resort to a variety of theoretical and conceptual perspectives emanating from the studies of organizational fields more generally and neo-institutionalism in particular.

Contents:

PART I: SETTING THE STAGE
Foreword - John W. Meyer
The Value in Comparing Organizational Fields and Forms - Romulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Francisco O. Ramirez and Karsten Vrangbaek
PART II: FIELD LEVEL DYNAMICS
Higher Education and Health Organizational Fields in the Age of "World Class" and "Best Practices" - Francisco O. Ramirez, Haldor Byrkjeflot and Romulo Pinheiro
Reformed or Deformed? The Unending Renewal of the Public University between Unintended Consequences and Unexpected Challenges - Jurgen Deeg
Comparing the Institutionalisation of Performance Management Schemes for Hospitals in Denmark, Germany and England - Karsten Vrangbaek, John Appleby, Tanja Klenk and Sarah Gregory
PART III: INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS IN HEALTH CARE AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Strategic and Enforced Logics Hybridization: An Agency View within French Hospitals and Universities - Corinne Grenier and Johan Bernardini-Perinciolo
Handling Different Institutional Logics in the Public Sector: Comparing Management in Norwegian Universities and Hospitals - Laila Nordstrand Berg and Romulo Pinheiro
Decision-making Power and Institutional Logic in Higher Education Institutions: A Comparative Analysis of European Universities - S. Kubra Canhilal, Benedetto Lepori and Marco Seeber
The Quest for Promoting Integrated Care in the Scandinavian Countries: Recent Reforms, Possibilities and Problems - Dag Olaf Torjesen, Gro Kvale and Charlotte Kiland
PART IV: RESISTANCE AND TRANSFORMATION
Institutional Isomorphism and Quality Management: Comparing Hospitals and Universities - Tanja Klenk and Markus Seyfried
Transforming Professional Bureaucracies in Hospitals and Higher Education Institutions - Teresa Carvalho and Rui Santiago
Managerialism in Complex Systems: Experiences of Strategic Planning in Non-Profit Hospitals - Victor Meyer, Jr., Lucilaine Pascuci and Diorgenes Falcao Mamedio
Viva Solidarity!: Framing Repertoire of Emerging Social Movements Against Institutional Change in Two Turkish Universities - Kutay Gune?tepe and Deniz Tuncalp