We seek to engage members of the Academy in dialogue about the conceptual perspectives and approaches found within a diverse stream of international management research projects. While the papers in this symposium proposal all focus on organizational behavior in health care, they are deliberately diverse both in the range of novel topics addressed and in the varied theoretical and conceptual approaches to analysis. We believe that bringing together these diverse research projects in one symposium will encourage scholars to engage in more general discussion about the goals and methods for systems-level analysis across national and international settings.

Agenda/Outline:

Ethical and Coordination Challenges of Providing Appropriate Health Care to Multi-Ethnic Patients
Presenter: Kathleen Montgomery; U. of California, Riverside;

Dynamics of Culture Change and an Illustrative Example from Nursing Homes in the US
Presenter: Jane Banaszak-Holl; U. of Michigan;
Presenter: Rosalind Keith; U. of Michigan;

Organizational Networks in Health Care: What can They Deliver?
Presenter: Louise Fitzgerald; De Montfort U.;
Presenter: Ewan Ferlie; Royal Holloway, U. of London;
Presenter: Gerald McGivern; Royal Holloway, U. of London;
Presenter: Sue Dopson; Said Business School;

Critical Healthcare Management Studies: An Emergent European Perspective
Presenter: Martin Kitchener; Cardiff Business School;
Presenter: Graeme Currie; U. of Nottingham;
Presenter: Mark Learmonth; U. of Nottingham;

Building Knowledge in Multidisciplinary Contexts and Challenges of Multidisciplinary Working
Presenter: Lorna McKee; U. of Aberdeen;