Continuous Innovation and Continuous Translation in Healthcare: A Study of Dynamic Actor Associations in UK National Health Service
Continuous Innovation and Continuous Translation in Healthcare: A Study of Dynamic Actor Associations in UK National Health Service
This paper focuses on continuous innovation in healthcare and explores the role of dynamic actor associations in the implementation of Lean thinking, using a study in the UK National Health System (NHS). The results of the case study suggest that the implementation and sustainability of continuous innovation depends on the emergence of a favouring network from the dynamic associations between heterogeneous entities (actants and action-nets). This network aims at establishing a CI behaviour/culture through the continuous translation of the opposing heterogeneous entities identities into Lean and subsequently CI principles and the construction of a non-resistant to Lean behaviour needed for creating innovative competencies and continuous roll-outs of such changes.
University of Southampton
Papadopoulos, T.
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2010
Papadopoulos, T.
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Papadopoulos, T.
(2010)
Continuous Innovation and Continuous Translation in Healthcare: A Study of Dynamic Actor Associations in UK National Health Service
(Discussion Papers in Centre for Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems, CORMSIS-10-02)
Southampton, GB.
University of Southampton
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This paper focuses on continuous innovation in healthcare and explores the role of dynamic actor associations in the implementation of Lean thinking, using a study in the UK National Health System (NHS). The results of the case study suggest that the implementation and sustainability of continuous innovation depends on the emergence of a favouring network from the dynamic associations between heterogeneous entities (actants and action-nets). This network aims at establishing a CI behaviour/culture through the continuous translation of the opposing heterogeneous entities identities into Lean and subsequently CI principles and the construction of a non-resistant to Lean behaviour needed for creating innovative competencies and continuous roll-outs of such changes.
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