The Role of Power and Materiality in Healthcare Improvement Initiatives: A Strategy-as-practice Perspective Completed Research Paper

摘要

In this paper we examine a healthcare initiative aimed at improving coordination for children with complex care needs. We adopt a strategy-as-practice lens. We focus on how power and materiality emerge and play an active role in everyday strategizing practices and in so doing we highlight the agentic role of material artifacts - a relatively overlooked topic in prior research. We found that material artifacts gain power in their own right and can promote changes in healthcare practices, thereby improving the quality of healthcare delivery.