Managerial Techniques in Management and Organization Studies: Theoretical Perspectives on Managerial Artefacts

Healthcare Activism

10.1093/oso/9780198865223.001.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Common Good ◽

Science And Technology Studies ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Healthcare Services ◽

Collective Good ◽

Organization Studies ◽

Public Care ◽

Theoretical Perspectives ◽

Care Systems

What is the role of civil society and activists in defining and defending the collective good in healthcare, especially in cases where that good seems to be heavily shaped by market dynamics? Presenting conceptual and empirical studies from a variety of healthcare contexts and theoretical perspectives, this book volume addresses this vital question by drawing together multi-disciplinary scholarship from science and technology studies, sociology, organization studies, marketing, and public health. The volume maps three major changes in healthcare over the past decades: the advent of personalized medicine, the marketization of public care systems, and the digitalization of healthcare services. It illustrates the extent to which these are interlinked to produce a seemingly unstoppable move toward individualization in healthcare, highlights the tensions and challenges arising from these interlinkages, and traces how activists react to these tensions to argue for and defend the common good. The volume thus sketches a multi-faceted picture of healthcare activism in the twenty-first century as civil society responds to these dynamics at the crossroads of markets and morals, economic and social justifications, individual and collective, and digital and non-digital worlds. Importantly, the volume also starts to sketch potential solutions for heightening patient voices and broadening participation in healthcare markets in a post-Covid-19 world.

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Theorizing Process Dynamics with Directed Graphs: A Diachronic Analysis of Digital Trace Data

MIS Quarterly ◽

10.25300/misq/2021/15360 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 967-984

Author(s):

Brian Pentland ◽

Emmanuelle Vaast ◽

Julie Ryan Wolf

Keyword(s):

Business Processes ◽

Process Mining ◽

Directed Graphs ◽

Organization Studies ◽

Trace Data ◽

Process Dynamics ◽

Systems Research ◽

Theoretical Perspectives ◽

Diachronic Analysis ◽

Process Structure

The growing availability of digital trace data has generated unprecedented opportunities for analyzing, explaining, and predicting the dynamics of process change. While research on process organization studies theorizes about process and change, and research on process mining rigorously measures and models business processes, there has so far been limited research that measures and theorizes about process dynamics. This gap represents an opportunity for new information systems research. This research note lays the foundation for such an endeavor by demonstrating the use of process mining for diachronic analysis of process dynamics. We detail the definitions, assumptions, and mechanics of an approach that is based on representing processes as weighted, directed graphs. Using this representation, we offer a precise definition of process dynamics that focuses attention on describing and measuring changes in process structure over time. We analyze process structure over two years at four dermatology clinics. Our analysis reveals process changes that were invisible to the medical staff in the clinics. This approach offers empirical insights that are relevant to many theoretical perspectives on process dynamics.

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Theoretical Perspectives on the Cause of Stuttering

Contemporary Issues in Communication Science and Disorders ◽

10.1044/cicsd_31_s_80 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 31 (Spring) ◽

pp. 80-91 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Nicoline Grinager Ambrose

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Perspectives

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The Evolution of Music Therapy

Musik- Tanz und Kunsttherapie ◽

10.1026/0933-6885/a000221 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 207-221

Author(s):

Wolfgang Mastnak

Keyword(s):

Music Therapy ◽

Evidence Based Medicine ◽

Wide Spectrum ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Modern Music ◽

Guided Imagery And Music ◽

Theoretical Perspectives ◽

International Importance ◽

Evolution Of Music ◽

Based Medicine

Abstract. Five overlapping eras or stages can be distinguished in the evolution of music therapy. The first one refers to the historical roots and ethnological sources that have influenced modern meta-theoretical perspectives and practices. The next stage marks the heterogeneous origins of modern music therapy in the 20th century that mirror psychological positions and novel clinical ideas about the healing power of music. The subsequent heyday of music therapeutic models and schools of thought yielded an enormous variety of concepts and methods such as Nordoff–Robbins music therapy, Orff music therapy, analytic music therapy, regulatory music therapy, guided imagery and music, sound work, etc. As music therapy gained in international importance, clinical applications required research on its therapeutic efficacy. According to standards of evidence-based medicine and with regard to clearly defined diagnoses, research on music therapeutic practice was the core of the fourth stage of evolution. The current stage is characterized by the emerging epistemological dissatisfaction with the paradigmatic reductionism of evidence-based medicine and by the strong will to discover the true healing nature of music. This trend has given birth to a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary hermeneutics for novel foundations of music therapy. Epigenetics, neuroplasticity, regulatory and chronobiological sciences, quantum physical philosophies, universal harmonies, spiritual and religious views, and the cultural anthropological phenomenon of esthetics and creativity have become guiding principles. This article should not be regarded as a historical treatise but rather as an attempt to identify theoretical landmarks in the evolution of modern music therapy and to elucidate the evolution of its spirit.

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Media Psychology and Complex Modes of Entertainment Experiences

Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications ◽

10.1027/1864-1105/a000030 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 34-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Christoph Klimmt

Keyword(s):

Empirical Studies ◽

Terror Management Theory ◽

Death And Dying ◽

Terror Management ◽

Media Psychology ◽

Mixed Emotions ◽

Theoretical Perspectives ◽

Complex Modes ◽

History Of ◽

Media Enjoyment

This comment briefly examines the history of entertainment research in media psychology and welcomes the conceptual innovations in the contribution by Oliver and Bartsch (this issue). Theoretical perspectives for improving and expanding the “appreciation” concept in entertainment psychology are outlined. These refer to more systematic links of appreciation to the psychology of mixed emotions, to positive psychology, and to the psychology of death and dying – in particular, to terror management theory. In addition, methodological challenges are discussed that entertainment research faces when appreciation and the experience of “meaning for life” need to be addressed in empirical studies of media enjoyment.

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