Managing Change ― From Health Policy to Practice

Managing Change is about implementing health care reforms, policies and programs into everyday practices. The main contribution is two-fold; the first is to explore organizational change in health care as influenced by contemporary policy and management concepts, the second aims to present and apply theoretical perspectives that create new insights into implementation processes and the hard work of managing change.

This new book from the Society for Studies in Organising Healthcare (SHOC) consists of fifteen chapters divided into four subthemes; the challenge of designing organisational change processes, the role of professions in change processes, the development of leadership competences necessary for creating organizational change, and the content and outcomes of change programs. All chapters address the main question of how organizational change in health care takes place in local work settings.

Susanne Boch Waldorff, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, where she is also the director for Center for Health Management. She has published research on the organizational perspectives of the public sector, including the translation of policy into organizational practices, the complexity of governance approaches, reforms and professions, and collaborative innovation.

Anne Reff Pedersen is Associate Professor at Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Her research field is organizational studies with a particular interest on organization theory, ethnography, narratives, time and the public policy field of Health Care. She has published articles in Organization, American Review of Public Administration, Management and Management Learning and she has published several books about organizational change, public mangers and management through the patient.

Louise Fitzgerald is Visiting Professor at Said Business School, University of Oxford and Emeritus Professor at De Montfort University, UK. Her research has focused on the implementation of organizational change in complex and public organizations, innovation diffusion and the nature of professional work and she has published in journals such as Human Relations, Academy of Management Journal, Leadership Quarterly and Social Science and Medicine.

Ewan Ferlie is Professor of Public Services Management at King's College London, UK. His interests are in the field of organizational change and restructuring in the public services, including health care. He is chair of the Society for the Study of Organizing in Health Care (SHOC), a learned society affiliated to the UK Academy of Social Sciences.