Required readings:
Martin P. Charns and Gary Young, “Organization Design and Work Coordination”, ch. 3 in Lawton Robert Burns, Elizabeth H. Bradley and Brian J. Wiener, Shortell & Kaluzny’s Health Care Management – Organization Design and Behavior, 6th ed., Delmar Cengage Learning, 2012 (26 p.) Edward J.
Zajac, Thomas A. D’Aunno and Lawton Robert Burns, “Managing Strategic Alliances in Health Care”, ch. 11 in ibid. (25 p.) Karen A. Wager and Mark L. Diana, “Health Information Systems…”, ch. 13 in ibid. (18 p.)
Scott, W. Richard and Gerald F Davis (2007) Organizations and Organizing:
Rational, Natural and Open Systems Perspectives, Pearson Ch. 1-4. (106 p.)
Henry Mintzberg, Mintzberg on Management, New York: The Free Press, 1989 (or later), Part II (208 p.)
Soki Choi, Competing logics in hospital mergers, Stockholm: Karolinska Institutet, 2011, ch. 2 (Previous research (on mergers)) (14 p.) http://publications.ki.se/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10616/40275/thesis_soki.pdf
?sequence=1
Kjekshus, Lars Erik & Hagen, Terje P. (2007). Do hospital mergers increase hospital efficiency? Evidence from a National Health Service country.
Journal of Health Services Research and Policy. ISSN 1355-8196. 12(4), p
230- 235
http://hsr.sagepub.com/content/12/4/230.full.pdf
Kjekshus, Lars Erik, Vilde Hoff Bernstrøm, Espen Dahl and Thomas Lorentzen, “The effect of hospital mergers on long-term sickness absence among hospital
employees: a fixed effects multivariate regression analysis using panel data” BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:50
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/14/50
Troels Kristensen, Peter Bogetoft, and Kjeld Moeller Pedersen “Potential gains from hospital mergers in Denmark” Health Care Management Science, 2010, Volume 13, Issue 4, pp 334-345
http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/924/art%253A10.1007%252Fs10729-010-9
133-8.pdf?auth66=1396514051_25ee50ebfad10039533f1633c57ba379&ext=.pdf
Henry Mintzberg and Sholom Glouberman, “Managing the Care of Health and the Cure of Disease—Part II: Integration”, Health Care Management Review, 2001, 26(1), pp. 72–92
http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/research/doc.cfm?did=46460
Recommended readings:
Deborah Davidson and Edward Peck, “Organisational development and organisational design”, ch. 20 in Kieran Walsh and Judith Smith, eds., Healthcare Management, Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006 (or later)
(22 p.)
Handouts:
Brunsson, Nils. The Organization of Hypocrisy. Talk, Decisions and Actions in Organizations. 2003, Copenhagen Business School Press. Ch 1, 2. (40
pages.)