The Value in Comparing Organizational Fields and Forms
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Following the spirit of an earlier volume in the series focusing on ‘Comparative Approaches to Organizational Research’, the mandate of the current volume is to provide a comparative account of dynamics across two organizational fields – health care and higher education – and, subsequently, two specific types of organizational forms – hospitals and universities. In so doing, we take a broader perspective encompassing various conceptual and theoretical points of departure emanating from, mostly, the institutional literature in the social sciences (and its various perspectives), but also from public policy and administration literatures – of relevance to scholars and the communities of practice working within either field. In this introductory paper to the volume, we provide a brief overview of developments across the two organizational fields and illuminate on the most important scholarly traditions underpinning the study of both system dynamics as a whole as well as universities and hospitals as organizations and institutions. We conclude by reflecting on the implication of the volume’s key findings in regards to comparative research within organizational studies.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Towards A Comparative Institutionalism : Forms, Dynamics And Logics Across The Organizational Fields Of Health Care And Higher Education |
Editors | Rómulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Francisco O. Ramirez, Karsten Vrangbæk |
Number of pages | 24 |
Volume | 45 |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Publication date | 2016 |
Pages | 9-32 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-78560-275-7 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-78560-274-0 |
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Publication status | Published - 2016 |
Series | Research in the Sociology of Organizations |
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ISSN | 0733-558X |
ID: 147170623