Often health care delivery employees suffer from lack of organizational-based self-esteem
and organizational identification. This results in poor service quality and endangers …

This study examines “identity work” among hybrid doctor-managers (DMs) in the Spanish
National Health System to make sense of their managerial roles. In particular, the meanings …

Health care is a critical context due to unpredictable situations, demanding clients, workload,
and intrinsic organizational complexity. One key to improve the quality of health services is …

Purpose Patient empowerment has been variously depicted as a new paradigm inspiring
the patient-provider relationship. To the authors' knowledge, scholars have focused most of …

Integrated care has been identified as being fundamental to health and social care reforms.
How this interprofessional working impacts on professional identity is unclear. There is a …

Background There is a decline in the relative numbers of general practitioners in Germany.
Earlier research showed that the professional relationship between general practitioners …

Background The need of improving the governance of healthcare services has brought
health professionals into management positions. However, both the processes and …

Both researchers and managers are interested in finding the factors that raise organizational
citizenship behaviour (OCB), particularly in the health sector. In this complex context …

We investigated how professional role identity change can be accomplished in highly
institutionalized contexts characterized by resiliency. We show that the collective …

We investigate how established professionals manage their identities in the face of identity
threats from a contested shift in the professional logic that characterizes their field. To do so …