Context in Action and How to Study It Illustrations from Health Care

by Meier, Ninna; Dopson, Sue

• ISBN13: 9780191843419
• ISBN10: 0191843415
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2019-08-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ninna Meier, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg university,Sue Dopson, Rhodes Trust Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Said Business School, University of Oxford

Ninna Meier is Associate Professor in Organizational Sociology at Aalbord University. She researches organization, leadership, and management of healthcare work with qualitative methods, and is currently working on a multi-level process study of integrative conditions and mechanisms in five cross-sectoral collaboration processes concerning citizens, whose needs call for services across hospital, GP, and municipality services. She is also a co-founder of The Open Writing Community, where she experiments with and writes about the role of academic writing in researcher-practitioner collaborations and impact beyond academia.

Sue Dopson is The Rhodes Trust Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Said Business School and Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. Her research centres on transformational change and knowledge exchange in the public and healthcare sectors. She has written and edited many major works on this topic and her research has informed and influenced government bodies such as the Department of Health and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in their thinking on areas such as the dissemination of clinical evidence into practice, medical leadership, and the role of the support worker in the NHS. She formerly worked as a personnel manager in the NHS before pursuing a research and academic career, and currently represents the University of Oxford as Non-Executive Director of the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Table of Contents

1. Foregrounding Context in Action, Ninna Meier and Sue Dopson
2. Theoretical Lenses on Context, Ninna Meier and Sue Dopson
3. Methodological Challenges in Studying Context in Action, Ninna Meier and Sue Dopson
CONTEXT: What Constitutes the Context of a Situation/Event or Phenomenon?
4. Enacted Context, Louise Fitzgerald
5. Context of Health Policies and the Impact on Implementation of Health Care and Health Interventions, David Chambers
6. Bringing the Building Back In: Implications for Studying Organizations, Kjell Tryggestad, Chris Harty, and Peter Holm Jacobsen
ACTORS: How Do Actors Understand, Experience, and Engage With Context?
7. Tracing Context as Relational, Discursive Accomplishment: Analytical Lessons from a Shadowing-Based Study of Health Care Chief Executives, Maja Korica and Davide Nicolini
8. Technology in Context - Exploring Vulnerability in Surgery, Helle Sofie Wentzer
9. Patients, Families, and Care Settings, Louise Locock, Glenn Robert, and Ninna Meier
10. Place Matters in Context Analysis: Understanding Patients' Experiences of Context, Ninna Meier
11. How Researchers Understand, Construct and Bound Context: Liminality and the Integration Space, Eleanor Murray
CHANGE: How Do Contexts Change and What Is the Role of Actors in Such Processes?
12. Analysing Context in Health Care Organizations: Some Reflections on Past Work and Contemporary Research Challenges, Ewan Ferlie
13. Context and Work Organization in an Acute Health Care Setting, Ian Kessler
14. How Context Shapes the Experience of Staff and Residents in Residential Long-Term Care Settings, Carole A. Estabrooks and Stephanie Chamberlain
15. Context in Action: A Research Agenda, Ninna Meier and Sue Dopson