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. Ed(S): Swan, Jacky; Newell, Sue; Nicolini, Davide - Mobilizing Knowledge in Healthcare: Challenges for Management and Organization - 9780198738237 - V9780198738237
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Mobilizing Knowledge in Healthcare: Challenges for Management and Organization

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Description for Mobilizing Knowledge in Healthcare: Challenges for Management and Organization hardcover. The divide between research and practice is one of the biggest challenges to healthcare improvement globally. This book aims to build a research-led, empirically-grounded, state of the art review of how knowledge is mobilized in healthcare settings and the critical challenges involved. Editor(s): Swan, Jacky; Newell, Sue; Nicolini, Davide. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: KJD; KJU; MBGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
The research-practice gap is a persistent problem in healthcare - significant new knowledge is created but only some of it is shared and even less is used. As a consequence, many innovative ideas fail to change practice in healthcare settings. Academics, practitioners, and governments alike, agree that finding new ways of mobilizing knowledge is critical to reducing this gap. Yet knowledge mobilization is especially difficult in such a complex setting. This is because knowledge is essentially social and contextual in its very nature. Straightforward, linear 'transfer' models fail to work. This book provides an alternative 'knowledge mobilization' view, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
OUP Oxford United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198738237
SKU
V9780198738237
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About . Ed(S): Swan, Jacky; Newell, Sue; Nicolini, Davide
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. ... Read more

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