... impact emergencies with which the Italian state was, unfortunately, experienced. Design/methodology/approach The paper investigates the Italian public healthcare setting since the declaration of the State of Emergency until its end—that is, from January 2020 to July 2021. We conducted 31 semi...

...Agathe Morinière; Irène Georgescu Purpose This study aims to understand whether and how the use of performance measures in the context of healthcare organizations facilitates the dynamics of compromise or whether it creates moral struggles among a wide variety of actors. It offers novel insights...

... of interviews, ethnographic observations of meetings and document analyses in five German hospitals between February and August 2020. Findings The authors found that actors repeatedly used a central set of indicators (the number of beds for COVID-19 patients) when adapting a healthcare infrastructure...

... with accounting. We argue that engaging with accounting can trigger strategic intent at some point in the episode – thus giving practical coping strategic direction. Strategizing Strategy NHS Episode Strategic intent Pathway Pluralism Healthcare A traditional definition of strategy...

... – The authors apply ANT to move beyond the commonly used contingency and new institutional sociology perspectives. Sven Siverbo can be contacted at: sven.siverbo@hv.se © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Professional identity Healthcare Actor-network theory Horizontal organization...