Towards a comparative institutionalism [electronic resource] : forms, dynamics and logics across the organizational fields of health care and higher education / edited by Ro<U+0301>mulo Pinheiro ... [et al.].

The value in comparing organizational fields and forms / Ro<U+0301>mulo Pinheiro ... [et al.] -- Higher education and health organizational fields in the age of <U+201c>world class" and <U+201c>best practices<U+201d> / Francisco O. Ramirez, Haldor Byrkjeflot, Ro<U+0301>mulo Pinheiro -- Reformed or deformed? The unending renewal of the public university between unintended consequences and unexpected challenges / Ju<U+0308>rgen Deeg -- Comparing the institutionalisation of performance management schemes for hospitals in Denmark, Germany, and England / Karsten Vrangbk ... [et al.] -- Strategic and enforced logics hybridization : an agency view within French hospitals and universities / Corinne Grenier, Johan Bernardini-Perinciolo -- Handling different institutional logics in the public sector : comparing management in Norwegian Universities and hospitals / Laila Nordstrand Berg, Ro<U+0301>mulo Pinheiro -- Decision-making power and institutional logic in higher education institutions : a comparative analysis of European universities / S. Kubra Canhilal, Benedetto Lepori, Marco Seeber -- The quest for promoting integrated care in the Scandinavian countries : recent reforms, possibilities and problems / Dag Olaf Torjesen, Gro Kva<U+030a>le, Charlotte Kiland -- Institutional isomorphism and quality management : comparing hospitals and universities / Tanja Klenk, Markus Seyfried -- Transforming professional bureaucracies in hospitals and higher education institutions / Teresa Carvalho, Rui Santiago -- Managerialism in complex systems : experiences of strategic planning in non-profit hospitals / Victor Meyer Jr., Lucilaine Pascuci, Dio<U+0301>rgenes Falca<U+0303>o Mame<U+0301>dio -- Viva solidarity! Framing repertoire of emerging social movements against institutional change in two Turkish universities / Kutay Gu<U+0308>nestepe, Deniz Tunc<U+0327>alp.

The book examines ongoing dynamics within the organizational fields of health and higher education, with a focus on collective (public universities and hospitals) and individual (professionals) actors, structures, processes and institutional logics. The fact that universities and hospitals share a number of important characteristics, both being hybrid organizations, professional bureaucracies, and operating within highly institutionalised environments, they are also characterised by their distinctive features such as the importance attributed to scientific autonomy and prestige (universities) and the needs and expectations of users and funders (hospitals). The volume brings together two relatively distinct scholarly traditions within the social sciences, namely, scholars - sociologists, educationalists, economists, political scientists and public administration researchers, etc. - involved with the study of change dynamics within the fields of health care and higher education in Europe and beyond. The authors resort to a variety of theoretical and conceptual perspectives emanating from the studies of organizational fields more generally and neo-institutionalism in particular.