IntroductionSection 1. Analysing contemporary policy.
Chapter 1. The UK health policy process: Integration, fragmentation or pluralisation?
Chapter 2. Populist polices and the medical profession: A case study from the UK
Chapter 3. Corpus linguistics for policy analysis: Exploring how patient safety is translated from physical to mental healthcare policy
Chapter 4. What is context? Methodological reflections on the relationship between context, action, actors and change
Section 2. Implementing policy in practiceChapter 5. Advanced clinical practitioners: Blended professionals in transition
Chapter 6. Understanding mission drift in UK health charities with a focus on Africa: A realist synthesis
Chapter 7. The rights and wrongs, ups and downs and ins and outs of organisational culture in Australian public hospitals
Chapter 8. Changing organisational practices through the integration of health and social care: Implications for boundary work and identity tactics
Section 3. Leadership in challenging policy contexts.
Chapter 9. On the longevity of (some) CEOs in the NHS
Chapter 10. The nomadic vision: Leadership, authority and organisational authorship in healthcare organisations
Chapter 11. Reframing healthcare leadership: From individualism to leadership as collective practice
Chapter 12. Considerations for women's progress in the health workforce through an intersectional lensChapter 13. Coping with challenges using general resilience resources: The GI-factor and the organisational social laser
Conclusion
About the Author: Roman Kislov is Director of the Decent Work and Productivity Research Centre in Manchester Metropolitan University and Deputy Theme Lead for Implementation Science in the National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration (NIHR ARC) Greater Manchester. He is Secretary of the Society for Studies in Organising Health Care (SHOC).
Diane Burns is Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at Sheffield University Management School. She is Deputy Chair of SHOC and serves on the Leadership Group of the Sustainable Care Research Programme funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council.
Bjørn Erik Mørk is Associate Professor of Innovation, Research Centre Leader for the Centre for Healthcare Management and Programme Director for Healthcare Management at BI Norwegian Business School.
Kathleen Montgomery is Professor of the Graduate Division and Emerita Professor of Organisations and Management at the University of California, Riverside. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.