The Institutionalization of Social Welfare: A Study of Medicalizing Management

ISBN-13: 9780415542876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 216 str.

Mikael Holmqvist

Opis

Holmqvist explores how a social welfare organization becomes a self-evident phenomenon by 'medicalizing' its environment: a way of 'solving' social problems by viewing and treating them as medical problems. This study generates new understandings of how institutionalization of organizations comes about.

Spis treści

1. Problems of Institutionalization  2. Management  3. Medicalization  4. Samhall of Sweden  5. Recruitment  6. Development  7. Transition  8. Medicalizing Management: Diagnosis  9. Medicalizing Management: Treatment  10. Enacting the Welfare Disabled Client  11. Conclusions 

O autorze

Mikael Holmqvist is an associate professor in organization theory at the School of Business, Stockholm University.