Advances in Health Care Management
Call for Papers
Stakeholder Theory and Health Care organizations
Deadline for 1-5 page Proposals: ` November 15, 2015
Deadline for Initial Manuscript Submissions: January 15, 2016
Guest Editors: Mattia Gilmartin, PhD, New York University, mjg14@nyu.edu
Grant T. Savage, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, gsavage@uab.edu
Series Editors: Leonard Friedman, PhD, George Washington University, friedmal@gwu.edu
Jim Goes, PhD, University of Phoenix and Walden University, jim@cybernos.com
Grant T. Savage, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, gsavage@uab.edu
Advances in Health Care Management, a research series published by Emerald Publishing Group, is pleased to announce a volume reviewing stakeholder theory and health care organizations, with publication planned in November 2016. We seek both empirical and conceptual papers. Empirical papers should focus on the application of stakeholder theory within health care organizations, while conceptual papers should focus on articulating how healthcare organizations provide a context for advancing stakeholder theory. Stakeholder theory and its application within the health care context has grown remarkably since the late 1980s, when the theory was introduced into the health care management literature by John Blair, Myron Fottler, Grant Savage and their colleagues at Texas Tech University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Since then, the number of health care management publications that include stakeholders or stakeholder perspective within their titles has steadily risen, to over 1000 publications per year during the past five years (see Medline; U.S. National Library of Medicine). Making sense of this literature is important for both practitioners and scholars. For example, to what extent does this literature address stakeholder theory on four critical dimensions: (1) value creation for health care organizations and their stakeholders; (2) perceptions and enactment of ethics by health care managers and/or stakeholders; (3) narratives and understandings about capitalism within health care organizations; and (4) narratives and understandings that link capitalism and ethics within health care organizations?
Clearly, those engaged in developing the stakeholder perspective within the management disciplines may find the health care context informative for developing stakeholder theory. Thus, we encourage papers examining stakeholder theory across various health care organization contexts, for example:
· Processes by which managers identify relevant stakeholders and their interests in the context of complex care settings such as medical groups; ambulatory care; acute care; nursing homes; chronic care; or integrated delivery systems.
· Understanding how managers integrate market approaches and ethics to deliver healthcare services to diverse stakeholders
· Descriptions of care delivery models that create value for diverse stakeholder groups
· Conceptual models describing how healthcare managers balance stakeholder interest during times of strategic change and organizational development
· The use of stakeholder theory to analyze the conditions under which health care managers can engage communities to improve the equitable distribution of health care services.
We also encourage papers examining stakeholder theory from various perspectives, from organization-centric to stakeholder-centric to issue and network-centric viewpoints. These varying ways to exercise stakeholder thinking might be applied to compare and contrast ways of understanding various stakeholder groups, for example:
· Stakeholder theory and health care service consumers;
· Stakeholder theory and health care providers;
· Stakeholder theory and health care purchasers; and
· Stakeholder theory and insurers.
Guidelines
Articles should orient new and established scholars about one or more of the stakeholder management issues noted above. Authors may evaluate current practices, highlighting intended and/or unintended consequences. We encourage authors to explore emerging themes, as well as divergent views, on the value of stakeholder management for health care organizations. Importantly, authors should focus on how stakeholders affect the practice of health care management, and ways that health care management could (or should) be improved. Both empirical (qualitative or quantitative) and theoretical papers are invited.
Key Dates
November 15, 2015 1-5 page proposal due
January 15, 2016: Draft manuscripts due
February/March, 2016: Reviews returned to authors
June 15, 2016: Final manuscripts due
October/November 2016: AHCM volume 19 published
All papers will be double blind reviewed. The editors will select the papers for this volume on a competitive basis, based on the recommendations of the reviewers. Specific guidelines for submission are provided below. Your email should request that the manuscript be specifically considered for volume 19. Do not submit a manuscript until given explicit approval by the editors. All materials should be prepared in MS Word and submitted to Dr. Savage at gsavage@uab.edu .
The complete Call for Papers and guidelines for submission can be found at http://ge.tt/9O1mCTO2/v/0?c
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