TY - ABST

T1 - Oppositional organisational structures governing managerial drives towards increased joint working practices among healthcare professionals

AU - Hindhede, Anette Lykke

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - Recently, we see a change in the organisation of public hospital healthcare with strives toward a re-orientation of professional standards and workflows. Increasing demand for adaptive and collaborative capacity emphazises the need to rethink the way these organisations are organized and led which may challenge doxa of the healthcare field. Drawing on interviews with chief doctors and chief nurses at two major public hospitals in Denmark who had job-experiences from differently positioned hospitals, our comparative approach highlights the conditions of possibility of new forms of governing professionals through drives towards changed working practice. We find that the new standards of care reproduce care hierarchies and professional closure to a varying degree dependent on the relative prestige of the involved hospitals, their specialties and the involved healthcare professionals.

AB - Recently, we see a change in the organisation of public hospital healthcare with strives toward a re-orientation of professional standards and workflows. Increasing demand for adaptive and collaborative capacity emphazises the need to rethink the way these organisations are organized and led which may challenge doxa of the healthcare field. Drawing on interviews with chief doctors and chief nurses at two major public hospitals in Denmark who had job-experiences from differently positioned hospitals, our comparative approach highlights the conditions of possibility of new forms of governing professionals through drives towards changed working practice. We find that the new standards of care reproduce care hierarchies and professional closure to a varying degree dependent on the relative prestige of the involved hospitals, their specialties and the involved healthcare professionals.

UR - https://vbn.aau.dk/en/publications/73cc1ecf-ed86-4792-9d03-6060ef1c970f

M3 - Conference abstract for conference

T2 - Bourdieu and Research in Organization and Management Studies Symposium

Y2 - 29 August 2018 through 30 August 2019

ER -