... 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Ethnography Critical theory Action research Critical thinking Critical healthcare management Multidisciplinary research Critical-action Healthcare organisations and their managers face on-going challenges arising from...

... and Thatchenkery, 2004 ; Grant et al., 2004 ; Hujala and Rissanen, 2012). The language does not only mirror the reality as such as it is, but constitutes the ways in which we come to understand the world (Alvesson and Kärreman, 2000). Critical thinking Agency Healthcare Discourse analysis...

... in the discussion. Thus, the recordings represent naturally‐occurring speech in the ordinary situations of organizations. Management Micro‐level discourse Social construction Polyphony Critical thinking Healthcare organizations Employee participation Health services Social interaction...

...” for management; in particular, the way in which this so‐called need hardly ever gets challenged in today's health care environments. The articles in this special edition of JHOM share the aim of Unmasking, giving readers a further flavour of the potential for health care of critical thinking...

... you the reader, initially to feeling and reflection (Lockford, 2002) and then on to action (Denzin, 1997). Can my narrative achieve this? Will you recognise my story, my choices and my pain? Will it cause you to pause in thought and reflect on your related stories? Critical thinking Managers...

... of the most basic premises in the sociology of health. It is that which perhaps makes health services so fundamentally political – whichever party can claim to best represent this “I” that I may become may have my vote. Social processes National Health Service Critical thinking Clinical governance...

... have relevance for sensemaking processes, but that the production of formal theory through social research is problematic. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Critical thinking Executive functions Interviews Method study Narratives Phenomenology We take for granted the social and cognitive...