Purpose – To provide research‐informed guidance to leaders of quality and safety improvement and evidence‐based materials for education programmes for leaders Design/methodology/approach – Search of databases and hard copy literature since 1985 into managers' and leaders' role in quality...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to stimulate debate about criteria for assessing the scientific contribution of a piece of management research and to guide and encourage researchers in writing papers for publication. The paper also seeks to reduce the number of papers submitted to journals...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide researchers and practitioners with an overview of how organisation behaviour research (OBR) helps to understand and resolve patient safety problems in health care. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes psychological, sociological and other...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the implementation of 12 different organisation and management innovations (OMIs) in Swedish healthcare, to discover the generic and specific factors important for successful healthcare improvement change in a public health system....