Advances in Health Care Organization Theory

STEPHEN S. FARNSWORTH MICK, PHD, 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, PHD, is assistant professor in the Department of Health Care Administration at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

• Figures and Tables viiAcknowledgments ixThe Editors xiThe Contributors xiii1 Introduction: Events, Themes, and Progress 1Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick and Patrick D. Shay2 A Primer of Organization Theories in Health Care 25Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick and Patrick D. Shay3 Finding Strength in Numbers: Bringing Theoretical Pluralism into the Analysis of Health Care Organizations 53Jacqueline S. Zinn and S. Diane Brannon4 Explaining Change in Institutionalized Practices: A Review and Road Map for Research 79Thomas D’Aunno5 Mechanisms for Culture Change in US Health Institutions and the Example of the Nursing Home Industry 99Jane Banaszak-Holl and Rosalind E. Keith6 Managing to Care: Design and Implementation of Patient- Centered Care Management Teams 125Douglas R. Wholey, Xi Zhu, David Knoke, Pri Shah, and Katie M. White7 Remember It Is a Workplace: Health Care Organizations as Sociological Artifacts 153Timothy Hoff8 Differentiated, Integrated, and Overlooked: Hospital-Based Clusters 179Patrick D. Shay, Roice D. Luke, and Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick9 Profound Change in Medical Technologies: Time to Reexamine the Technology-Structure Nexus in Health Care? 205Mary L. Fennell, Steven B. Clauser, and Miriam Plavin-Masterman10 Social Network Analysis and the Integration of Care: Theory and Method 229Timothy R. Huerta and Roberto Dandi11 Complexity and Health Care: Tools for Engagement 259James W. Begun and Marcus Thygeson12 Synthesis and Convergence: The Maturation of Organization Theory 283Stephen S. Farnsworth Mick and Patrick D. ShayReferences 297Name Index 355Subject Index 369