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Managing participatory action research in a health‐care service experiencing conflicts

Gozzoli, Caterina; Frascaroli, Daniela - In: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: … 7 (2012) 3, pp. 275-289

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to explore why it was considered useful and how it was possible to conduct a participatory action research (PAR) in a health‐care service experiencing conflictual dynamics (which affected service quality) and on the challenges this entailed. Specific...

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A multi‐method approach for looking inside healthcare practices

Gorli, Mara; Kaneklin, Cesare; Scaratti, Giuseppe - In: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: … 7 (2012) 3, pp. 290-307

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore a specific multi‐method approach with which to detect and analyze professional practices in order to support organizational reflection and change. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a case study, the paper describes the methodological...

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Discovering healthcare professional‐practice networks

Bishop, Simon; Waring, Justin - In: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: … 7 (2012) 3, pp. 308-322

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine the benefits of undertaking mixed methods social network analysis (SNA) to investigate patterns of interpersonal relationships in healthcare delivery. Although SNA has roots in anthropological and ethnographic research, recent emphasis has been on...

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Online exchanges among cancer patients and caregivers

Graffigna, Guendalina; Libreri, Chiara; Bosio, Claudio - In: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: … 7 (2012) 3, pp. 323-337

Purpose – The meanings attributed to the quality of a person's illness experience result from important processes of co‐construction not only between healthcare professionals and patients but also among patients and caregivers. In the case of advanced cancer, new treatments extend...

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Not for the faint of heart

Urban, Ann-Marie; Quinlan, Elizabeth - In: Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: … 9 (2014) 1, pp. 47-65

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to share two researcher's experience about the challenges associated with shadowing within the health care context. Design/methodology/approach – Institutional ethnography and shadowing. Findings – Shadowing is increasingly being used as a data...

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Supply chain management in health services: an overview

de Vries, Jan; Huijsman, Robbert - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 16 (2011) 3, pp. 159-165

Purpose – This paper seeks to concentrate on the question whether any parallels can be found between the industrial sector and health care services with respect to the developments that have taken place in the area of Supply Chain Management. Starting from an analysis of existing literature,...

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Collaborative implementation of e‐business processes within the health‐care supply chain: the Monash Pharmacy Project

Bhakoo, Vikram; Chan, Caroline - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 16 (2011) 3, pp. 184-193

participants in the Monash Pharmacy Project (including a large general hospital pharmacy, pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers …

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Processes, episodes and events in health service supply chains

Lillrank, Paul; Groop, Johan; Venesmaa, Julia - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 16 (2011) 3, pp. 194-201

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore different units of analysis applicable to the analysis of healthcare service supply chains. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a literature review, conceptual analysis and two case studies based on process mapping and...

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Collaborative management of inventory in Australian hospital supply chains: practices and issues

Bhakoo, Vikram; Singh, Prakash; Sohal, Amrik - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 17 (2012) 2, pp. 217-230

partners in Australian hospital supply chains use to manage inventories. Design/methodology/approach – A case study involving a …

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Managing a variable acute patient flow – categorising the strategies

Olsson, Olle; Aronsson, Håkan - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 20 (2015) 2, pp. 113-127

Purpose – This paper aims to explore if actions used at a hospital to manage a variable acute patient flow can be … hospital was gathered by interviews, internal documents, shadowing and participation in meetings. Identified actions used at … both hospital level and departmental level are categorised as lean or agile, while combinations of actions are compared …

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