Overview
- Contributes to the topic of innovation in healthcare by espousing the recent shift in attention in research from structural explanations to process explanations
- Provides interesting empirical case studies of innovation processes in the healthcare sector
- Compiles chapters from experts in their fields, and explores the themes of controversy, reforms and policy-driven change in relation to innovation
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This book examines healthcare innovation processes, shedding light on the controversies endemic to innovation, which make such processes notoriously challenging. While, in the heat of action, controversies may be seen as barriers to innovation, observations reported in this volume point to controversies also having an energizing role. Students and academics studying innovation, organization, and health management and economics will find this book a valuable read as it provides empirical case studies on innovation processes in practice. Controversies in Healthcare Innovation will also appeal to practitioners of health care management, innovation project managers and policy-makers in the health care sector.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Translation of Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities
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Policy Interventions in Innovating Healthcare
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Healthcare Innovations Beyond the Local Context
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Reviews
“What happens when we look at how actors disagree - or better agree on their disagreement – during an innovation process? Instead of a harmonious process of implementation, the authors propose to look at controversies in the ‘innovation journey’ in health care settings. This book proposes a challenging theoretical and methodological shift in innovation studies through a practice and process approach.” (Silvia Gherardi, Professor, University of Trento, Italy)
“This edited volume asks two fundamental questions: What is the role of controversies in innovation? And: How can we overcome the various challenges that are facing healthcare in an era of rapid technological, economic and organizational change? By providing captivating and diverse empirical answers to these two questions, the editors and contributors to this volume sketch a route that leads the reader from the challenges of health care innovation to controversies’ energizing potential in overcoming them.” (Susi Geiger, Professor of Marketing and Market Studies, University College Dublin)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Thomas Hoholm is Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School and Senior Researcher at Akershus University Hospital, Norway. With a background in organization theory and industrial networks, his research focusses on innovation processes.
Antonella La Rocca is Research Fellow at Akershus University Hospital and Visiting Research Fellow at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. Her research interests are in innovation, entrepreneurship and B2B Marketing.
Margunn Aanestad is Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. She has researched the introduction of information and communication technologies in healthcare from an information infrastructure perspective.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Controversies in Healthcare Innovation
Book Subtitle: Service, Technology and Organization
Editors: Thomas Hoholm, Antonella La Rocca, Margunn Aanestad
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55780-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55779-7Published: 03 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55780-3Published: 21 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 381
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Health Care Management, Organization, Innovation/Technology Management, Enterprise Architecture, Operations Management