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Organizational Science and Health Care

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Kathleen Sutcliffe, John Hopkins University

Description

Semester:

  • Winter 2022

Speakers:

Kathleen Sutcliffe

Lecture Time:

Fri, January 21, 2022 @ 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Lecture Location:

R0220, Ross building

Speaker Webpage(s):

https://carey.jhu.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/kathleen-m-sutcliffe-phd

Introduced By:

Lakshmi Ganesan

Abstract

Research on topics of organizational science in health care settings for a variety of reasons has proliferated in recent years across both organization- and health-focused disciplines. Yet, questions abound about what we as organizational scholars know, what we have learned, and whether the research we are conducting is relevant. The first goal of this session is to take stock of this important domain by drawing together findings from two recent works: a critical history and analysis of the patient safety movement and an analysis of almost 700 articles published over the past decade in leading organizational science (OS) and health care (HC) journals. A second goal is to provide insight into promising avenues that could ultimately advance organizational science and health care with future research that is both rigorous and relevant.

Recording & Additional Notes

Kathleen M. Sutcliffe (Ph.D. University of Texas – Austin) is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University with primary appointments in the Carey Business School, the School of Medicine (Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine) and the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality. She is also Professor Emeritus of Management and Organization at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Her research program has been devoted to investigating how organizations and their members cope with uncertainty and how organizations can be designed to be more reliable and resilient. She has investigated organizational safety, high reliability and resilience practices in oil exploration and production, wildland firefighting, and in healthcare. Her research has appeared widely in management and healthcare journals and includes a recent book co-authored with the late Dr. Robert Wears titled Still Not Safe: Patient Safety and the Middle Managing of American Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2020).