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Making health services management research critical: a review and a suggestion

Learmonth, M.

Authors

M. Learmonth



Abstract

This piece reviews the qualitative research literature on NHS management published since 1990. It suggests that much of the established work in this field takes for granted managerial assumptions that are consequently not subjected to sustained critical examination. It is argued therefore that this research has tended to create a version of the world that supports elite interests whilst appearing to be disinterested. A framework for seeing management in a radically different manner is also proposed – Critical Management Studies. Its approaches to analysing management and organisation are offered in the belief that they articulate the kind of challenges to orthodox views that many with an interest in health care are likely to find attractive and perhaps emancipatory.

Citation

Learmonth, M. (2003). Making health services management research critical: a review and a suggestion. Sociology of Health & Illness, 25(1), 93-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.00326

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2003
Deposit Date Jan 6, 2011
Journal Sociology of Health & Illness
Print ISSN 0141-9889
Electronic ISSN 1467-9566
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 25
Issue 1
Pages 93-119
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.00326
Keywords Health services management, Critical management studies, Emancipation, Qualitative research.
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1544734

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