...Albrecht Fritzsche; Alexander Bohnert Purpose The article investigates the organisational transformation of a healthcare service provider due to the introduction of digital technology. Using social systems theory, it focusses on programmes setting the premises of decision communication...

... mechanisms at work when organizational members are preparing for pending organizational change. Early analysis based on the anticipation cycle enables organizations and scholars to bring previously black-boxed anticipatory patterns into the equation of organizational change. Positioning Healthcare...

...). Professor Clare Kelliher can be contacted at: clare.kelliher@cranfield.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Managers New public management Healthcare Stress Work outcomes This paper is concerned with the impact of implementing new public management (NPM) practices on public...

... – This is apparently the first qualitative study that traces the causes of stress as organizational change moves through various phases. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Public sector Healthcare Occupational stress Organizational change Qualitative research In their introduction...