Table of Contents
Figures and Tables vii
Acknowledgments ix
The Editors xi
The Contributors xiii
1 Introduction: Events, Themes, and Progress 1Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick and Patrick D. Shay
2 A Primer of Organization Theories in Health Care 25Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick and Patrick D. Shay
3 Finding Strength in Numbers: Bringing Theoretical Pluralism into the Analysis of Health Care Organizations 53Jacqueline S. Zinn and S. Diane Brannon
4 Explaining Change in Institutionalized Practices: A Review and Road Map for Research 79Thomas D’Aunno
5 Mechanisms for Culture Change in US Health Institutions and the Example of the Nursing Home Industry 99Jane Banaszak-Holl and Rosalind E. Keith
6 Managing to Care: Design and Implementation of Patient- Centered Care Management Teams 125Douglas R. Wholey, Xi Zhu, David Knoke, Pri Shah, and Katie M. White
7 Remember It Is a Workplace: Health Care Organizations as Sociological Artifacts 153Timothy Hoff
8 Differentiated, Integrated, and Overlooked: Hospital-Based Clusters 179Patrick D. Shay, Roice D. Luke, and Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick
9 Profound Change in Medical Technologies: Time to Reexamine the Technology-Structure Nexus in Health Care? 205Mary L. Fennell, Steven B. Clauser, and Miriam Plavin-Masterman
10 Social Network Analysis and the Integration of Care: Theory and Method 229Timothy R. Huerta and Roberto Dandi
11 Complexity and Health Care: Tools for Engagement 259James W. Begun and Marcus Thygeson
12 Synthesis and Convergence: The Maturation of Organization Theory 283Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick and Patrick D. Shay
References 297
Name Index 355
Subject Index 369