Hardbound. Dramatic social, political, technological, and economic changes are occurring in the health care industry. The Advances in Health Care Management research series was developed in response to this ongoing turbulence in the health care industry coupled with the decreasing number of scholarly outlets for complex and originative health care management research. The field needs new perspectives on organization, innovative management theory and superior empirical research that offer exciting ways to approach existing and emerging problems in health care management. Management scholarship...

The papers that comprise this volume address firstly a range of theoretical issues in health care management and secondly the challenges facing health care managers and the changes affecting physicians as they adapt to new administrative and clinical roles.

Main headings: Special research forum on management issues in nursing. - Clinical and technological issues in health care management. - Organizational and strategic issues in health care management.