dc.contributor.author | Solstad, Elsa | |
dc.contributor.author | Pettersen, Inger Johanne | |
dc.contributor.author | Robbins, Geraldine | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-01T11:29:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-01T11:29:00Z | |
dc.date.created | 2020-05-31T14:37:13Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Financial Accountability and Management. 2020, 1-17. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0267-4424 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2675842 | |
dc.description.abstract | Management at a distance is increasingly employed to organize
hospital resources, of which professionally skilled staff is the key
component. Mergers often imply distant management. The study
examines the internal management aspects for two hospitals in two
consecutive mergers, 5 years apart. We focus on how geographical and cognitive distances are experienced by middle managers and
their followers. We find that the concept of distance plays significant
and different roles in managing units in an organization with distant
top management teams. Our findings indicate that hospital professionals’ positive perception of their relationship with top managers,
as measured by cognitive distance, can outweigh the possible negative effects of large geographical distances between hospital units
and top management teams. Our study also indicates that information systems and communication mechanisms may mitigate the possible perceived negative effects of distance. Our findings imply that
politicians, policymakers, and National Health Service’ management
should be aware of the effects of distances in implementing new collaborative management arrangements. We recognize that our study
is limited in context, time, and scale. We welcome further research
on comparative analyses of the complex interplay between physical and cognitive distances in other hospitals and also other types of
organizations. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley Online Library | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.title | Hospitals as professional organizations and the perception of distances | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 1-17 | en_US |
dc.source.journal | Financial Accountability and Management | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/faam.12234 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1813340 | |
dc.description.localcode | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. c 2020 The Authors. Financial Accountability & Management published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd | en_US |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |