We engage and extend the concept of therapeutic landscapes through a case study at an urban American Indian health organization in the Midwestern United States. This case affords insights at the unique confluence of indigeneity and urbanization, prompting us to coin the construct "urban-indigenous therapeutic landscapes" to characterize such sites. These landscapes warrant urgent attention in l...

For cellular bodies involving large elastic deformations, mesoscopic continuum models that take into account the interplay between the geometry and the microstructural responses of the constituents are developed, analysed and compared with finite-element simulations of cellular structures with different architecture. For these models, constitutive restrictions for the physical plausibility of t...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the idea of practice-based innovation and to propose a framework that can be used to conceptualize and analyze practice-based innovation processes in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – The argument is driven by conceptual analysis and theoretical synthesis based on theory and research on innovation, organizational change, individualand...

BACKGROUND In Norway, a government reform has recently been introduced to enhance coordination between primary and secondary care. This paper examines the effects of two newly introduced measures to improve the coordination: an ICT-based communication tool/standard and an economic incentive scheme. METHOD This qualitative study is based primarily on 27 open-ended interviews. We interviewed ni...

Interviews with both refugees and organizational staff in two nonprofit refugee resettlement organizations in the United States reveal the ways in which knowledge(s) and expertise are crafted, threatened, and understood in refugee organizations. Refugee-participants described the need for knowledgeable communication, barriers to the communication of knowledge, and processes of negotiating whose...

Inhalt 1. Police and armed forces two polar types of coercive organizations ..................................................... 2 2. Decentralized Conflicts and Enlarged Policing Ambitions: the New Era of Global Policing ..................... 4 3. Ambiguities, Dilemmas and Incompatibilities: The New Problems of Policing Militaries ........................ 6 3.1 Unspecified intervention criter...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the growing practice of managerial coaching. Much of the coaching literature is set in the context of an external coach coming into an organisation. However managers are increasingly being expected to coach their employees, a change in role which can create tensions. Design/methodology/approach This paper examines the literature on c...

Correspondence to Dr Joel Negin; [email protected] THE NEED FOR WHO REFORM The Ebola epidemic has drawn unprecedented attention to the WHO and its deficiencies. However, WHO’s shortcomings are not limited to its mishandling of Ebola alone and extend more widely. Checchi et al highlight fundamental challenges in terms of structure, governance and prioritisation of political considerations...

This article looks at the constraining influence of internal organizational factors on the management of organizational change. The purpose of the study was to determine the individual and group behavioral-induced situational problems, conflicts and tensions that change managers can identify and also use as innovative tools to enhance their capacity to manage organizational change. Individual a...

Current theories of leadership are based mainly on the industrial paradigm emphasizing the preeminence of positional leaders and the machine-like qualities of organizations. Evolutionary and attributional biases tend to reinforce the industrial paradigm. The authors propose an ecological theory of leadership that makes 4 important assertions: (a) Effective leadership processes involve temporary...