The Diffusion of Medical Innovations - An Applied Network Analysis (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)

This book has several objectives. Most basically it presents an approach to assessing interorganizational innovation diffusion. To do this we have tried to link contempo rary organizational theory with more person-centered diffusion theory. We have also combined contingency theory with the resource dependence perspective to explain why organizations might choose to initially consider an innovation, re define it to suit their particular environmental context, and then implement it. Another objective has been to examine how environmental constraints can limit the ways in which diffusion channels form, and can determine when diffusion can be truly organizational and when it will depend upon individuals. In doing so, we have tried to indicate how organizational structures emerge to manage re sources in ways that are consistent with those environmental constraints. We have borrowed the notion of boundary management from resource dependence, and we have used it to examine how organizations use various boundary management strategies to preserve their autonomy in exchange relationships with other organi zations. We have done this both at the network level and at the level of individual organizations."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Environment, Development and Public Policy: Public Policy and Social Services
Release date:	March 2012
First published:	1988
Authors:	Mary L. Fennell • Richard B. Warnecke
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	300
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
ISBN-13:	978-1-4684-5438-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Epidemiology & medical statistics
LSN:	1-4684-5438-2
Barcode:	9781468454383

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