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Managing Modern Healthcare: Knowledge, Networks and Practice (Routledge Studies in Health Management) by Mike Bresnen; Damian Hodgson; Simon Bailey; Paula Hyde; John Hassard is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Until now, research has given us only a limited understanding of how managers actually make sense of and apply management knowledge; how networks of interaction amongst managers help or hinder processes of knowledge diffusion and the sharing of best practice; and how these processes are all influenced both by the organisations in which managers act and by the professional communities of practice they belong to. Managing Modern Healthcare fills these important gaps in our understanding by drawing upon an in-depth study of management networks and practice in three healthcare organisations in the UK. It draws from the primary research a number of important and grounded lessons about how management networks develop and influence the spread of management knowledge and practice; how management training and development relates to the needs of managers facing challenging conditions; and how those conditions are themselves shaping the nature of management in healthcare. This book reveals how managers in practice are responding to the many contemporary challenges facing healthcare (and the NHS in particular) and how they are able or not to effectively exploit sources of knowledge, learning a

Author

Mike Bresnen; Damian Hodgson; Simon Bailey; Paula Hyde; John Hassard

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315658506

Subjects

Management, Business, Social Science