Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 38 Issue 9

From hospital-centered care to home-centered care of older people: propositions for research and development

Bonnie Poksinska, Malin Wiger

Providing high-quality and cost-efficient care of older people is an important development priority for many health and social care systems in the world. This paper suggests a…

Co-development of client involvement in health and social care services: examining modes of interaction

Anna-Leena Kurki, Elina Weiste, Hanna Toiviainen, Sari Käpykangas, Hilkka Ylisassi

The involvement of clients in service encounters and service development has become a central principle for contemporary health and social care organizations. However, in…

Trust in embedding co-design for innovation and change: considering the role of senior leaders and managers

Tina Bedenik, Claudine Kearney, Éidín Ní Shé

In this viewpoint article, the authors recognize the increased focus in health systems on co-design for innovation and change. This article explores the role of leaders and…

Hospital doctor turnover and retention: a systematic review and new research pathway

Siva Shaangari Seathu Raman, Anthony McDonnell, Matthias Beck

Society is critically dependent on an adequate supply of hospital doctors to ensure optimal health care. Voluntary turnover amongst hospital doctors is, however, an increasing…

Contingency and paradoxes in management practices—development plan as a case

Erlend Vik, Lisa Hansson

As part of a national plan to govern professional and organizational development in Norwegian specialist healthcare, the country’s hospital clinics are tasked with constructing…

Managing under austerity: a qualitative study of management–union relations during attempts to cut labour costs in three South African public hospitals

Thanduxolo Elford Fana, Jane Goudge

In this paper, the authors examine the strategies used to reduce labour costs in three public hospitals in South Africa, which were effective and why. In the democratic era, after…

Vertical policy coordination of COVID-19 testing in Sweden: an analysis of policy-specific demands and institutional barriers

Anna Hallberg, Ulrika Winblad, Mio Fredriksson

The build-up of large-scale COVID-19 testing required an unprecedented effort of coordination within decentralized healthcare systems around the world. The aim of the study was to…

Reconsidering performance management to support innovative changes in health care services

Anell Anders

A large number of studies indicate that coercive forms of organizational control and performance management in health care services often backfire and initiate dysfunctional…

Program coordinators’ perspectives on implementing a transition program for newly graduated nurses: a qualitative interview study

Annika Eklund, Maria Skyvell Nilsson

While transition programs are widely used to facilitate newly graduated nurses transition to healthcare settings, knowledge about preconditions for implementing such programs in…

Keep-or-drop multidimensional control systems in professional organisations: evidence on the use of the balanced scorecard in healthcare

Anna Prenestini, Stefano Calciolari, Arianna Rota

During the 1990s, Italian healthcare organisations (HOs) underwent a process of corporatisation, and the most innovative HOs introduced the balanced scorecard (BSC) to address the…