What is it about?
The article examines the role of organizational space in attempts at practice redesign and innovation that involve a break with the traditional professional boundaries in a recently established Danish hospital department.
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Why is it important?
The paper contributes with unique insights into a seldom studied part of hospital organization, which is how organizational space, rather than being a backdrop for organizational life, is constructed and used by the professionals. Space is thus an active component in delimiting professional work as well as the scope of change.
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It was a revealing experience to analyse how organizational space, which is usually an invisible component of day to day organizational life, is important in delimiting what can take place and where. I hope the article will help managers and health professionals working in hospitals to foster a reflexivity on how space and practice is intermingled and what it means for practices in their local hospitals.
Associate professor Jette Ernst
Roskilde Universitet
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This page is a summary of: Between change and reproduction, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, October 2017, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/joe-02-2017-0007.
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