Hybrid manager-professionals' identity work: The maintenance and hybridization of medical professionalism in managerial contexts

Public Administration

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 412-432

  Mcgivern, Gerry ^a   Currie, Graeme ^a   Ferlie, Ewan ^c   Fitzgerald, Louise ^d   Waring, Justin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH SERVICES; MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84930930796     PISSN: 00333298     EISSN: 14679299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/padm.12119     Document Type: Article

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