“This timely book reframes healthcare innovation and implementation not as rigid technical exercises, but as dynamic, collective sensemaking shaped by people, organisations, and context. Bringing together diverse case studies from across systems and settings, it reveals how, for innovation to succeed, meanings must be negotiated, challenges navigated, and change become rooted in practice.”
— Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, University of Oxford, UK
“Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Change: A Sensemaking Perspective powerfully reframes healthcare innovation and implementation as social, political and organisational accomplishments, not technical roll-outs. The editors curate a set of chapters that are analytically rigorous, empirically vivid and refreshingly honest about complexity and unintended consequences. This is exactly the kind of critical scholarship our field needs to advance theory and practice.”
—Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Macquarie University, Australia
This book explores the social context of healthcare innovation, highlighting the emergent and contingent nature of implementing change. Drawing on empirical evidence, it examines how people and organisations engage in collective sensemaking processes to create meanings that enable innovation to become integrated into practice. With contributions from cross-disciplinary authors and perspectives, the book advocates for a more open and interpretive approach to implementation.
Chapters 1, 4 and 5 are licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Gregory Maniatopoulos is Professor of Healthcare Management and Co-Director of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation, Policy and Management at the University of Leicester School of Business, UK. His research explores how organisational and policy factors shape the implementation and appropriation of innovations in healthcare practice.
Gemma Hughes is Associate Professor of Healthcare Management and Co-Director of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation, Policy and Management at the University of Leicester School of Business, UK. Her research critically analyses the intersections between healthcare organisational practices, policy and patients’ experiences.
This book explores the social context of healthcare innovation and highlights the emergent and contingent nature of implementing change. Drawing on empirical evidence, it examines the ways in which people and organisations engage in collective sensemaking processes to create meanings that enable innovation to become integrated into health care practice. With contributions from a range of cross-disciplinary authors and perspectives, the book ultimately advocates for a more open and interpretive approach to implementation, drawing together lessons learnt across the cases presented. This leads to a closer consideration of the processes through which collective sensemaking shape the implementation of healthcare innovation and change.
Chapters 1, 4 and 5 are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Gregory Maniatopoulos
organisational change healthcare innovation health policy healthcare implementation hermeneutics
“This timely book reframes healthcare innovation and implementation not as rigid technical exercises, but as dynamic, collective sensemaking shaped by people, organisations, and context. Bringing together diverse case studies from across systems and settings, it reveals how, for innovation to succeed, meanings must be negotiated, challenges navigated, and change become rooted in practice.” (Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, University of Oxford, UK)
“Healthcare Innovation, Implementation and Change: A Sensemaking Perspective powerfully reframes healthcare innovation and implementation as social, political and organisational accomplishments, not technical roll-outs. The editors curate a set of chapters that are analytically rigorous, empirically vivid and refreshingly honest about complexity and unintended consequences. This is exactly the kind of critical scholarship our field needs to advance theory and practice.” (Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Macquarie University, Australia)