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Innovation sustainability in challenging health-care contexts: embedding clinically led change in routine practice.
- Source :
- Health Services Management Research; Nov2012, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p190-199, 10p, 6 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- The need for organizational innovation as a means of improving health-care quality and containing costs is widely recognized, but while a growing body of research has improved knowledge of implementation, very little has considered the challenges involved in sustaining change -- especially organizational change led 'bottom-up' by frontline clinicians. This study addresses this lacuna, taking a longitudinal, qualitative case-study approach to understanding the paths to sustainability of four organizational innovations. It highlights the importance of the interaction between organizational context, nature of the innovation and strategies deployed in achieving sustainability. It discusses how positional influence of service leads, complexity of innovation, networks of support, embedding in existing systems, and proactive responses to changing circumstances can interact to sustain change. In the absence of cast-iron evidence of effectiveness, wider notions of value may be successfully invoked to sustain innovation. Sustainability requires continuing effort through time, rather than representing a final state to be achieved. Our study offers new insights into the process of sustainability of organizational change, and elucidates the complement of strategies needed to make bottom-up change last in challenging contexts replete with competing priorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CANCER patient medical care
CLINICAL medicine
GENETICS
INTERVIEWING
LONGITUDINAL method
MEDICAL care
EVALUATION of medical care
MEDICAL personnel
MEDICAL specialties & specialists
ORGANIZATIONAL change
RESEARCH funding
QUALITATIVE research
THEMATIC analysis
HUMAN services programs
EVALUATION of human services programs
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09514848
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Services Management Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 88946209
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0951484812474246