Controversies in Healthcare Innovation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Controversies in Healthcare Innovation – Service, Technology and Organization

   • Thomas Hoholm, Antonella La Rocca, Margunn Aanestad

   Pages 1-17

3. Translation of Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. A New Space for Patients – How Space Enters Innovation Translation Processes

      • Mara Gorli, Jeanne Mengis, Elisa Giulia Liberati

      Pages 21-52

   3. One Table – Several Practices: Material Controversies in the Hybrid Operating Room

      • Kajsa Lindberg, Lars Walter

      Pages 53-74

   4. Contradictions as Opportunities for Innovation in the Case of TAVI

      • Bjørn Erik Mørk, Jasmina Masovic, Gail Greig, Davide Nicolini, Ole Hanseth

      Pages 75-106

4. Technology Enabled Healthcare Innovations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Dealing with Tensions in Technology Enabled Healthcare Innovation: Two Cases from the Norwegian Healthcare Sector

      • Miria Grisot, Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou, Margunn Aanestad

      Pages 109-132

   3. An Organization-as-Platform and a Strategy-as-Practice for an Electronically Supported Booking Service in Healthcare

      • Andrea Resca

      Pages 133-158

5. Policy Interventions in Innovating Healthcare

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Reconfiguring the Relation Between Primary and Secondary Healthcare Through Policy Instruments

      • Luis Araujo, Antonella La Rocca, Thomas Hoholm

      Pages 161-184

   3. A Controversy of Interpretation: Emergent Agencies in Repurposing Aker Local Hospital

      • Tonje Hungnes, Adeline Holmedahl Hvidsten

      Pages 185-213

   4. More with Less: Sensemaking of Controversies in Youth Care Reforms

      • Ariane von Raesfeld, Elly van der Helm

      Pages 215-243

6. Healthcare Innovations Beyond the Local Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245

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   2. Networked Innovation in Healthcare: Literature Review and Research Agenda on the Interplay of Inner and Outer Contexts of Innovation

      • Antonella La Rocca

      Pages 247-277

   3. The Role of Controversy in Medical Technology Adoption

      • Olga Mikhailova, Per Ingvar Olsen

      Pages 279-308

   4. Increase Development and Decrease Use! Innovation Controversies Caused by Antimicrobial Resistance

      • Alexandra Waluszewski, Enrico Baraldi, Francesco Ciabuschi

      Pages 309-339

   5. Developing Organizational Ambidexterity: Enabling Service Innovation in a Hospital Setting

      • Thomas Hoholm, Fred Strønen, Kari J. Kværner, Linn Nathalie Støme

      Pages 341-368

7. Back Matter

   Pages 369-381

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This book examines healthcare innovation processes, shedding light on the controversies endemic to innovation, which make such processes notoriously challenging. While, in the heat of action, controversies may be seen as barriers to innovation, observations reported in this volume point to controversies also having an energizing role. Students and academics studying innovation, organization, and health management and economics will find this book a valuable read as it provides empirical case studies on innovation processes in practice. Controversies in Healthcare Innovation will also appeal to practitioners of health care management, innovation project managers and policy-makers in the health care sector.

• healthcare management
• policy-makers
• hospital
• innovation strategy
• reform

“What happens when we look at how actors disagree - or better agree on their disagreement – during an innovation process? Instead of a harmonious process of implementation, the authors propose to look at controversies in the ‘innovation journey’ in health care settings. This book proposes a challenging theoretical and methodological shift in innovation studies through a practice and process approach.” (Silvia Gherardi, Professor, University of Trento, Italy)

“This edited volume asks two fundamental questions: What is the role of controversies in innovation? And: How can we overcome the various challenges that are facing healthcare in an era of rapid technological, economic and organizational change? By providing captivating and diverse empirical answers to these two questions, the editors and contributors to this volume sketch a route that leads the reader from the challenges of health care innovation to controversies’ energizing potential in overcoming them.” (Susi Geiger, Professor of Marketing and Market Studies, University College Dublin)

• Department of Strategy, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway

  Thomas Hoholm

• Health Services Research Center, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway

  Antonella La Rocca

• Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

  Margunn Aanestad

Thomas Hoholm is Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School and Senior Researcher at Akershus University Hospital, Norway. With a background in organization theory and industrial networks, his research focusses on innovation processes.

Antonella La Rocca is Research Fellow at Akershus University Hospital and Visiting Research Fellow at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway.  Her research interests are in innovation, entrepreneurship and B2B Marketing.

Margunn Aanestad is Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. She has researched the introduction of information and communication technologies in healthcare from an information infrastructure perspective.  

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