Continuous Innovation and Continuous Translation in Healthcare: A Study of Dynamic Actor Associations in UK National Health Service
Papadopoulos, T. (2010) Continuous Innovation and Continuous Translation in Healthcare: A Study of Dynamic Actor Associations in UK National Health Service. Southampton, GB, University of Southampton (Discussion Papers in Centre for Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems CORMSIS-10-02).
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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.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Management |
| Item ID: | 79272 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:43 |
| Contributors: | Papadopoulos, T. (Author) |
| Date: | 2010 |
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| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | University of Southampton |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/79272 |
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