'Necessity is the mother of invention': Specialist palliative care service innovation and practice change in response to COVID-19. Results from a multinational survey …

L Dunleavy, N Preston, S Bajwah… - Palliative …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Specialist palliative care services have a key role in a whole system response
to COVID-19, a disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. There is a need to understand …

Thinking outside the box, improvisation, and fast learning: Designing policy robustness to deal with what cannot be foreseen

G Capano, F Toth - Public Administration, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Policies are continually subjected to turbulence and crises. Interest in policy robustness as a
fundamental way to deal with what cannot be foreseen is increasing. Thus, there is a …

'DISSEMINATE': a roadmap for facilitating adoption of affordable surgical innovations in low and middle-income countries

D Sharma, V Agrawal, NA Sam-Agudu… - BMJ …, 2023 - innovations.bmj.com
Importance Affordable surgical innovations (ASIs) provide simple, safe and equitable
solutions in resource-limited settings. Effective dissemination is needed for widespread …

Home palliative care professionals perception of challenges during the Covid-19 outbreak: a qualitative study

L Franchini, S Varani, R Ostan, I Bocchi… - Palliative …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Home palliative care services have played an essential role during the first
wave of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak by providing symptom control, drug procurement, and …

Impact of risk communication on patient's safety during the pandemic

HP Zuluaga-Arias, M Alkhakany… - … Advances in Drug …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
More than 2 years has passed since the pandemic was declared in 2019 due to the severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which was later declared to be the …

Phronetic improvisation: A virtue ethics perspective

D Hadjimichael, H Tsoukas - Management Learning, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Traditional approaches to organizational improvisation treat it as a merely functional
response to environmental constrains and unforeseen disruptions, neglecting its moral …

Emergent organizing in crisis: US nurses' sensemaking and job crafting during COVID-19

S Sahay, M Dwyer - Management Communication Quarterly, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Crisis situations may render some roles meaningless or modify the meanings of existing
roles. In general, employees participate in job crafting to alter or redefine their tasks and …

[HTML][HTML] “We don't experiment with our patients!” An ethnographic account of the epistemic politics of (re) designing nursing work

S Kuijper, M Felder, S Clegg, R Bal… - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
This article draws on ethnographic research investigating experimental reform projects in
local nursing practices. These are aimed at strengthening nursing work and fostering nurses' …

Preparing to be spontaneous for effective organizational improvisation

AV Simpson, S Clegg - The Routledge companion to …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
The significance of preparedness for organizational improvisation has not received much
scholarly attention. A widely held misunderstanding concerning improvisation is that it does …

Does the growth of food trucks threaten the sustainability of restaurants? Evidence from a nationwide analysis of US businesses

DM Carpenter, K Sweetland - Journal of Foodservice Business …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines whether growth in the food truck sector in the United States harms
restaurants, as restaurateurs and their allies often claim. Using 12 years of nationwide data …