Peddlers and Princes or After Restructuring

Peddlers and Princes: Social Development and Economic Change in Two Indonesian Towns

Author: Clifford Geertz

In a closely observed study of two Indonesian towns, Clifford Geertz analyzes the process of economic change in terms of people and behavior patterns rather than income and production. One of the rare empirical studies of the earliest stages of the transition to modern economic growth, Peddlers and Princes offers important facts and generalizations for the economist, the sociologist, and the South East Asia specialist.
"Peddlers and Princes is, like much of Geertz's other writing, eminently rewarding . . . Case study and broader theory are brought together in an illuminating marriage."—Donald Hindley, Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science
"What makes the book fascinating is the author's capacity to relate his anthropological findings to questions of central concern to the economist . . . "—H. G. Johnson, Journal of Political Economy

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After Restructuring: Empowerment Strategies at Work in America's Hospitals

Author: Thomas G Rundall

Managing Change

An in depth treatment of organizational change in hospitals. After Restructuring provides a mother-lode of insights and lessons that will be mined for years. A must read for all those committed to improving hospital performance in a radically changing health care system.
--Stephen M. Shortell, Blue Cross distinguished professor of health policy and management professor of organization behavior, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

After Restructuring debunks the myths surrounding hospital change and offers insightful and practical recommAndations for successful restructuring. This valuable book is based on the work of a team of health services researchers headed up by Thomas Rundall, director of the Center for Health Management Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The book reports the results of a three year study of nine hospitals, an unaffiliated group of facilities in urban, rural, and suburban regions that received funding from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust to restructure patient care processes.

The authors present a framework for understanding organizational change and define the principles that guide change facilitators through the five stages of change--readiness to change, awareness of the need to change, identification and selection of changes, implementation, and institutionalization of changes. The standards derived from the change experiences of these hospitals provide important best practice guidelines.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits
	Preface
	The Authors
Pt. 1	Restructuring Hospitals to Improve Patient Care	1
1	The Changing American Hospital: New Approaches to Patient Care	3
2	Strengthening Hospital Nursing: A Program to Improve Patient Care	17
3	The Bounding of Empowerment: Managing Change with Empowered Persons	26
Pt. 2	Strategies for Successful Restructuring	49
4	Studying Organizational Change in the SHN Hospitals	51
5	Changes Implemented by SHN Hospitals	74
6	Principles of Successful Change	83
Pt. 3	After Restructuring: Empowerment Strategies at Work	103
7	The Impact of Restructuring on Nursing and Patient Care	105
8	The Impact of Restructuring on Hospital Culture	121
Pt. 4	The Cases	143
9	The Strategic Imperative: Abbott Northwestern Hospital	145
10	If It Ain't Broke, Fix It Anyway! Beth Israel Hospital	164
11	All Politics Is Local: District of Columbia General Hospital	177
12	"You Can't Do Anything Unless You Change the Culture": Health Bond Consortium	188
13	Maintaining Mission Through Organizational Change: Providence Portland Medical Center	206
14	Building Networks to Improve Patient Care: The Rural Connection	218
15	Collaborating to Compete on Quality: University Hospitals of Cleveland	224
16	The Hospital as Academic Laboratory: University of Utah Hospital	238
17	From a Knowing Organization to a Learning Organization: Vanderbilt University Hospital	257
	References	277
	Index	285