Advances in Health Care Organization Theory

Advances in Health Care Organization Theory Second Edition Advances in Health Care Organization Theory, Second Edition , introduces students in health administration to the fields of organization theory and organizational behavior and their application to the management of health care organizations. The book explores the major health care developments over the past decade and demonstrates the contribution of organization theory to a deeper understanding of the changes in the delivery system, including the historic passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Taking both a micro and macro view, editors Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick and Patrick D. Shay collaborate with a roster of contributing experts, including James W. Begun, S. Diane Brannon, Roice D. Luke, Douglas R. Wholey, and Jacqueline S. Zinn, to compile a comprehensive volume that covers the latest in organization theory. Topics include: institutional and neo–institutional theory patient–centered practices and organizational culture change design and implementation of patient–centered care management teams hospital–based clusters as new organizational structures application of social network theory to health care complexity science and health care organizations medical technologies and the technology–structure nexus in health care

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

STEPHEN S. FARNSWORTH MICK, P H D, is professor in the Department of Health Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University and affiliate professor at the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, in Lyon, France. PATRICK D. SHAY, P H D, is assistant professor in the Department of Health Care Administration at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.