Routledge Studies in Health Management
About the Book Series
The health care sector is now of major significance, economically, scientifically and societally. In many countries, health care organizations are experiencing major pressures to change and restructure, while cost containment efforts have been accentuated by global economic crisis. Users are demanding higher service quality, and health care professions are experiencing significant reorganization whilst operating under increased demands from an ageing population.
Critically analytic, politically informed, discursive and theoretically grounded, rather than narrowly technical or positivistic, the series seeks to analyse current health care organizations. Reflecting the intense focus of policy and academic interest, it moves beyond the day to day debate to consider the broader implications of international organizational and management research and different theoretical framings.
The series welcomes proposals on the following themes:
- What organization theories best shed light on current health care organizations?
- How does organizational change take place in health care organizations?
- How can novel health policy arenas (e.g. patient safety and quality) be conceptualised?
- Which narratives of health care reforming become influential and why in the political and policy domains?
- Who are the key actors in current health care reform? E.g. Rise of management consulting and think tanks.
- ‘doing more with less’ in health care post the 2008 economic crisis; what is the assessment of policies and strategies adopted?
- Why do countries vary in their experience of health care reform?
- What are the key developments within the health care professions and their implications for health care management?
- How important is the push from Science and Technology reshaping health care systems?
- What are the broader social and organizational effects of new ICTs in health care settings?
Women in Health Management: Global Revolutionaries
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert McMurray, Éidín Ní Shé
September 23, 2025
Writings on health and health management have long been concerned with the great figures that have preserved, protected or extended life. From Hippocrates and Galen to Vesalius, Lister, Mengele, Pasteur, Jenner and Fleming these writings have celebrated individuals whose knowledge and practice has ...
Co-production and Japanese Healthcare: Work Environment, Governance, Service Quality and Social Values
1st Edition
By Victor Pestoff
January 09, 2023
Healthcare in most developed countries face a complex and partly contradictory mix of financial, social and political challenges. Fiscal strains combined with New Public Management agendas have caused severe cutbacks and calls for greater efficiency in public healthcare, resulting in a growing ...
Management, Organization, and Childbirth: Towards a New Model for the Birth Path
1st Edition
By Gabriella Piscopo, Margherita Ruberto
December 27, 2022
Management, Organization and Childbirth: Towards a New Model for the Birth Path explores the complex topic of the birth path with a multidisciplinary magnifying glass on the paradigms, languages, and tools critical to the organization, management, and clinical science. The work consists of five ...
Managing Modern Healthcare: Knowledge, Networks and Practice
1st Edition
By Mike Bresnen, Damian Hodgson, Simon Bailey, Paula Hyde, John Hassard
August 23, 2018
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 ...
Analysing Health Care Organizations: A Personal Anthology
1st Edition
By Ewan Ferlie
June 08, 2018
Analysing Health Care Organizations seeks to link the world of health policy and management with the academic field of organization studies in a novel and additive way. It outlines the main developments in UK health care management apparent over the last thirty years and explores how they...