Abstract
Studying a university hospital undergoing radical organizational change, the paper discusses the creation and constitution of new leadership roles. The discussion focuses on how respons-es to isomorphic pressures are related to local variations of organizational structures and pat-terns of institutionalization. Variation occurs in terms of two different discourses, creating dif-ferent types of legitimacy, and is explained by combining an institutional approach and the becoming perspective based on the notion of timespace, thus bridging realism and social con-structivism. Theoretically, the paper points to how realism and social constructivism can be bridged by focusing timespace within a qualitative methodology. Practically, the paper lends more support to new public governance than to the prevailing discourse of new public man-agement.
Original language | English |
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Publication date | 2015 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Event | EGOS Colloquium - Athens, ALBA Graduate Business School, Athens, Greece Duration: 2 Jul 2015 → 4 Jul 2015 Conference number: 31 |
Conference
Conference | EGOS Colloquium |
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Number | 31 |
Location | Athens |
Country/Territory | Greece |
City | ALBA Graduate Business School, Athens |
Period | 02/07/2015 → 04/07/2015 |