scholarly journals What Managers Find Important for Implementation of Innovations in the Healthcare Sector - Practice Through Six Management Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klas Palm ◽  
Ulrika Persson Fishier
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Innovation Implementation ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Implementation Phase ◽  
Implementation Project ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Implementation Of Innovations

Background There is a growing expectation that many health organisations will implement innovations. One obstacle for innovative ideas to have an impact on the healthcare system in practice seems to be difficulties in the implementation phase. There is a lack of concretization of theoretical perspectives related to implementation of innovations. The research question answered by this article is: Which enabling factors can facilitate the specific step of moving from idea generation to implementation in a healthcare context? Methods The research was carried out with a qualitative action research methodology where the researchers took part in the innovation implementation project. The authors of this article were part of a collaborative innovation implementation project involving approximately 54 practitioners. The project was run by five stakeholders: 1) the Division of Assistive Technology in the Dalarna County Council Regional Healthcare Administration 2) the Habilitation Division 3) the Division for Home Care and Social Services in the municipality of Leksand 4) Dalarna University and 5) Uppsala University. Through a ‘Pearl growing’ technique six implementation management perspectives were, as a framework, identified and presented for the practitioners. The practitioners worked further to concretize these six perspectives. Data was collected through five workshops and collaborations between the researchers and the practitioners. Data was clustered regarding what the managers want to achieve within these six perspectives (ideal situation) and the main means for reaching this situation. Results The study underlying this article generated 35 concrete enabling factors for successful innovation implementation, distributed over the initially presented six theoretical perspectives. Conclusion Concretizing management principles into enabling factors shows, on the one hand, that the theoretical principles have practical value, but on the other that they must be adopted to the specific circumstances of each organization, and that too abstract principles can hardly be operationalized.

scholarly journals Exploring enablers of innovative quality development in public administration

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klas Palm ◽  
Jessica Algehed
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Process Step ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Specific Process ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Implementation Of Innovations

Purpose Today’s public administration is facing a wide range of challenges. This situation requires an ability to change and innovate. However, difficulties in the implementation of innovations have been seen as the cause of many administrations’ inability to achieve the intended benefits of innovations. The purpose of this study is, therefore, to empirically determine which – out of a wide range of enabling factors for innovations – may be the most important for the specific process step of moving from ideas to implementation of innovations in a public administration context, and, furthermore, to identify possible additional enablers for this specific process step. Design/methodology/approach This study is a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with city officials in four cities on four continents. Findings The study identifies five key enablers for transforming ideas into implemented innovations in public administration: a committed and hands-on leadership, internal as well as external networking, innovation processes over time alternately organized as a separate project and, as part of the standard operating procedures, a system understanding, including an understanding of how the parts contribute to a shared vision and communication of achieved, tangible, short-term results. Three of these enablers are previously identified as overall enablers for innovation and two complement previously identified enablers. Originality/value The article identifies enabling factors for the specific step of going from idea generation to implementation of innovations in a public sector context. The article also reviews enabling factors from real experiences. Much of the former literature is conceptual. The article analyses an area in which there is a general lack of empirical research.

Factors influencing middle managers’ commitment to the implementation of innovations in cancer care

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Urquhart ◽  
Cynthia Kendell ◽  
Amy Folkes ◽  
Tony Reiman ◽  
Eva Grunfeld ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Managers ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Innovation Implementation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Inductive Constant ◽  
Data Collection And Analysis ◽  
Implementation Of Innovations ◽  
Theoretical Saturation ◽  
Canada Data

Objective To identify and illuminate influences on middle managers’ commitment to innovation implementation. Methods A qualitative study was conducted, employing the methods of grounded theory. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from middle managers (n = 15) in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada. Data were collected and analysed concurrently, using an inductive constant comparative approach. Data collection and analysis continued until theoretical saturation was reached. Results The data revealed middle managers contemplate two central issues in terms of their commitment to implementation, that is whether or not they fully engage in and support the implementation of a particular innovation. These issues are (1) ease of implementation and (2) potential benefit for patients. Middle managers’ views and expectations related to ease of implementation are influenced by available resources, fit with setting, and stakeholder buy-in. Their views on patient benefit are influenced by external evidence of benefit and local gaps in care. Conclusions These findings provide further insight into the factors that influence middle managers’ commitment to innovation implementation, and how middle managers consider these factors in the context of their work settings.

scholarly journals Searching for employment: highly educated immigrant women and combined capabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Tytti Steel ◽  
Marjut Jyrkinen
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Gender And Age

Our paper addresses the ways in which highly educated immigrant women encounter and experience employment services in Finland. This qualitative study examines a group of women who have experience with both governmentally funded Employment and Economic Centre services (TE Services) and services offered by the third sector. The research question in this paper is as follows: How do the employment services support the capabilities of immigrant women job seekers trying to find work? Our analysis is inspired by Sen’s capability approach and Nussbaum’s concept of combined capabilities. The first empirical section addresses women with a foreign background as job seekers and their internal capabilities. We look at the enabling factors and hurdles faced by highly educated immigrant women trying to enter the job market due to their gender and age. In the second empirical section, we analyse how the combined capabilities are constructed through contacts with employment services.

Theoretical Perspectives on White-Collar Crime

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Levi
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
Research Question ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Criminal Courts ◽  
Social Harm ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Liberal Societies ◽  
Life Course Studies

White-collar crime has not developed in a linear way as an academic subject. Its definition remains contested, between those who consider that, when deciding on the boundaries of what we can explain, we cannot depart far from the decisions of criminal courts and, at the other extreme, those who substitute “social harm” for “crime” and see the theoretical task as explaining why criminal justice reacts far more severely to the less socially harmful acts. Most scholars are somewhere closer to the legalistic view, except that they substitute convictability for conviction, though convictability may be disputable except where there is a Deferred Prosecution Agreement or an agreed statement by the corporation. Individual, organizational, and cultural explanations of white-collar offenses are considered and are complementary, depending on the research question to be explored. Incomplete or distorted datasets are commonplace, but the increasing number of life course studies of white-collar criminality show that serious white-collar (and organized crime) offending typically has a later onset than other crimes. This may be due to established professionals being recruited as ‘enablers,’ and/or that a certain maturity is necessary to act as a credible borrower or investment intermediary, depending on the crime. An important dimension of white-collar crime explains the decisions about formal and informal social control as ways of dealing with misconduct. These decisions range from detailed analysis of individual cases and patterns in a financial and/or industrial/service sector to macro explanations such as intentional or neglectful police/prosecutor resource starvation and protection of elites in neo-liberal societies. Some of the strategies are affected by whether regulator/regulatee relationships are repeat players progressing up the regulatory pyramid, or whether they are outsiders or intentional harm-doers, who may be less likely to be deterred or reformed by engagement with the regulators.

Developing engineering students’ willingness and ability to perform creative tasks

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (9) ◽  
pp. 1138-1150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inger Beate Pettersen ◽  
Bjørn Willy Åmo ◽  
Elma van der Lingen ◽  
Kari Håvåg Voldsund ◽  
Judit Johnstad Bragelien
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Creative Tasks

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore creativity and how it changes over time among engineering students in practice-based entrepreneurship in higher education. This change was examined in students over a one-semester course in entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship courses that use creativity tools for practice-based learning are expected to develop creativity as a learning outcome. This study discusses the extent to which some learning outcomes are more easily developed than others. Design/methodology/approach This research uses a longitudinal design by applying a pre- and post-test survey. The student population consists of engineering students enrolled in an entrepreneurship course with practice-based learning involving creativity tools. The course includes team-based idea generation and business model development. To measure actual changes in students’ creativity, two measures were used to reflect different aspects. Findings The results show that students’ ability to perform creative tasks increased, while students’ willingness to engage in and their enjoyment of creative tasks decreased as a result of the course. Non-significant differences in changes were found between the two measures, but a difference was found in how the two measures changed during the course. In line with the research question, the results suggest that education may influence ability to a greater extent than willingness. Originality/value The research used two different creativity measures to explore the extent to which engineering students experienced a change in creativity over a one-semester entrepreneurship course. In this way, the research contributes to the discussion on what could be learnt and by what means.

scholarly journals Adoption of practices for organizational effectiveness in healthcare supply chains

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 915-938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matloub Hussain ◽  
Fatima Al Hammadi ◽  
Dotun Adebanjo
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Organizational Effectiveness ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Process Output ◽  
Healthcare Process

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the adoption of practices and investigating of commonalities/intensities between the factors for measuring organizational effectiveness (OE) across healthcare supply chains in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Design/methodology/approach System theory coupled with the Supplier-Input-Process-Output-Customer tool was applied to facilitate the linkage between different nodes of the healthcare chain. An exploratory approach was used to explore and measure the importance of various OE factors across various nodes of the healthcare supply chain. Data were collected using a two-stage questionnaire process addressed at personnel in the UAE’s healthcare sector. Findings The study identified that 62 OE factors in the health are supply chain. Of these, 15 are related to suppliers, 14 to the healthcare process, 12 to employees, 8 to patients and the community, 6 to government directives and 7 to branding. In total, 21 common factors were identified and clustered into groups based on commonalities and intensities. Research limitations/implications The study identifies the most important factors for healthcare organizations to achieve OE for different dimensions of operations or performance. These factors will provide valuable insights for decision makers in the sector; it will provide valuable insights to healthcare professionals and academia to investigate more on these factors. Originality/value While there is an increasing research interest in healthcare supply chains, this is the first study to investigate OE across the entire chain while also evaluating the importance of and commonalities in OE-enabling factors.

Instrumental Understanding of Management Ideas

2019 ◽  
pp. 120-138
Author(s):  
Kjell-Arne Røvik
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Translation Theory ◽  
Implementation Phase ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Distinct Property ◽  
Symbolic Perspective ◽  
As If

This chapter discusses the instrumental status of management ideas through the lenses of three theoretical perspectives. While from the modernistic–rationalistic perspective, management ideas are conceived of as tools, they are also frequently described as legitimizing elements or fashions viewed from the social constructionist–symbolic perspective. However, seen from a pragmatic perspective—this chapter’s main analytical frame—the instrumental quality of a management idea cannot be decided upon a priori, as if it were a distinct property of each idea. Instead, the implementation phase stands out as critical for the shaping of management ideas. A pragmatic lens, such as offered by translation theory, helps to identify a range of possible trajectories of initiatives to implement management ideas. Some lead to instrumentalization and practical use, while others do not. It is argued that translation theory has the potential to guide practitioners’ efforts to instrumentalize management ideas.

Singapore Nursing Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes About Spirituality and Spiritual Care in Practice

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 160-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lay Hwa Tiew ◽  
Vicki Drury
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Interpretative Approach ◽  
Diploma Program

Purpose: This exploratory study investigated nursing students’ perceptions and attitudes about spirituality and spiritual care in practice. Study Design: A qualitative interpretative approach was used to investigate the research question. Method: In-depth interviews were conducted with 16 final-year preregistration nursing students from 3 different educational institutions offering a degree or diploma program in Singapore. Data were analyzed using the Miles and Huberman’s method of thematic analysis. Findings: Thematic analysis identified three themes: (a) students’ perceptions of spirituality, (b) spiritual care, and (c) factors influencing spiritual care in practice. Conclusions: The study informed that though young, spirituality matters to the nursing students. Accordingly, nursing is perceived to play an integral role in spiritual care. Enabling factors need to be systematically addressed both in the education and practice arenas before the perennial issue of disconnect between development and implementation of spirituality in practice can be bridged.

scholarly journals The Decade 1989–1998 in Spanish Psychology: An Analysis of Research in Social Psychology

2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amalio Blanco ◽  
Luis de la Corte
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Group Processes ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Language Research ◽  
Psychology Community

In this study, a detailed exploration is carried out of the production of research and theory in social psychology in the Spanish context. The main research areas are: Work and organizational psychology, social health psychology, community and social services psychology, environmental research, judicial and political psychology, psycosocial theory and meta-theory, social psychology of language, research on emotion, group processes and social identity. The growing importance of social psychology within the framework of Spanish psychology is emphasized, and the relation with specific social problems from the national context, and the paradoxically scarce originality of the theoretical perspectives and the leading research, strongly influenced by Anglo Saxon social psychology, is commented upon.

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