Mobilizing Knowledge in Healthcare Challenges for Management and Organization

by Swan, Jacky; Newell, Sue; Nicolini, Davide

• ISBN13: 9780198738237
• ISBN10: 0198738234
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-09-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Jacky Swan, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick,Sue Newell, Professor of Information Systems and Management and Head of the Department of Business and Management, University of Sussex,Davide Nicolini, Professor of Organization Studies, and co-Director of the IKON research centre, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Jacky Swan is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, joint founder and Co-Director of the IKON Research Centre. Her research links innovation and networking to processes of creating, sharing and managing knowledge in complex organizational contexts, including healthcare. She recently completed a major funded study of the use of evidence-based knowledge in healthcare commissioning management.


Sue Newell is Professor of Information Systems and Management and Head of the Department of Business and Management, at Sussex University. She has a BSc and PhD from Cardiff University, UK. Sue's research focuses on understanding the relationships between innovation, knowledge and organizational networking, primarily from an organizational theory perspective.


Davide Nicolini is Professor of Organization Studies, as well as co-Director of the IKON research centre, both at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. Widely published in major international journals, his current research focuses on the development of the practice-based approach and its application to phenomena such as knowing, collaboration, innovation and change in organizations.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare, Jacky Swan, Sue Newell, Davide Nicolini
Theme 1 - Understanding How Managers Mobilize Knowledge
Introduction, Jacky Swan, Sue Newell, Davide Nicolini
1. 'Epistemic Fit' and the Mobilization of Management Knowledge in Healthcare, Gerry McGivern, Sue Dopson, Ewan Ferlie, Chris Bennett, Michael Fischer, Louise Fitzgerald and Jean Ledger
2. Objects and Monitoring Practices: Understanding CEO's Information Work As Mundane Accomplishment, Maja Korica and Davide Nicolini
Theme 2 - Developing Organizational Capabilities for Knowledge Mobilization
Introduction, Jacky Swan, Sue Newell, Davide Nicolini
3. Enhancing Absorptive Capacity of Healthcare Organizations: The Case of Commissioning Service Interventions, Charlotte Croft and Graeme Currie
4. Creating and Sustaining the Right Kind of Space for Organizational Learning in Primary Health Care, Trish Reay, Kathy GermAnn, Ann Casebeer, Karen Golden-Biddle, C.R. (Bob) Hinings
Theme 3 - Mobilizing Knowledge Through Networking
Introduction, Jacky Swan, Sue Newell, Davide Nicolini
5. Knowledge Mobilization Across Inter-organizational Health Care Innovation Partnerships: A Network Ambidexterity Perspective, Eivor Oborn, Karl Prince and Michael Barrett
6. Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare Networks: The Power of Everyday Practices, Sue Newell and Marco Marabelli
7. Knowledge Mobilization and Network Ambidexterity in a Mandated Healthcare Network: A CLAHRC Case Study, Daniela D'Andreta and Harry Scarbrough
Theme 4 - Mobilizing Knowledge Across Space and Time
Introduction, Jacky Swan, Sue Newell, Davide Nicolini
8. Recovering the Performative Role of Innovations in the Global Travel of Healthcare Practices: Is there a Ghost in the Machine?, Davide Nicolini, Jeanne Mengis, David Meacheam, Justin Waring and Jacky Swan
9. Mobilizing Knowledge in the Ecology of Healthcare Innovation, Maxine Robertson and Jacky Swan
Conclusion - Moving On..., Jacky Swan, Sue Newell, Davide Nicolini