The contested terrain of hospital management: Professional projects and healthcare reforms in denmark

Current Sociology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 489-506

  Kirkpatrick, Ian ^a   Dent, Mike ^b   Jespersen, Peter Kragh ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

clinical professions; governance; hospitals; management; medicine; nursing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959755308     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392111402718     Document Type: Article

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