Case Study Research
The View From Complexity Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4633241 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth A Anderson (0000-0001-6640-644X, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina), Benjamin F Crabtree (0000-0003-2292-6835, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick), Diana Steele (0000-0003-0927-3075, Florida State University), David J Steele (0000-0003-3389-7160, Florida State University), Reuben R Mcdaniel (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 669-685 |
| Publication date | 2005-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732305275208 |
| PMID | 15802542 |
| PMCID | PMC1822534 |
| OpenAlex | W2099425752 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 48 |
| References cited | 51 |
Many wonder why there has been so little change in care quality despite substantial quality improvement efforts. Questioning why current approaches are not making true changes draws attention to the organization as a source of answers. The authors bring together the case study method and complexity science to suggest new ways to study health care organizations. The case study provides a method for studying systems. Complexity theory suggests that keys to understanding the system are contained in patterns of relationships and interactions among the system's agents. They propose some of the "objects" of study that are implicated by complexity theory and discuss how studying these using case methods might provide useful maps of the system. They offer complexity theory, partnered with case study method, as a place to begin the daunting task of studying a system as an integrated whole
Complexity science · Data science · Epistemology · Health care · Management · Management science · Political science · Social complexity · Social science · Sociology · Systems science · Wonder · Chaos, Complexity, and Education · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · Engineering · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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Implementation of US Post-Acute Care Payment Reform and Covid-19 Policies
Interprofessional partnerships in chronic illness care
Development of interorganisational integration—a vocational rehabilitation project
Reducing health inequities
The Challenge and Promise of Complexity Theory for Teacher Education Research
Qualitative and Mixed Methods Provide Unique Contributions to Outcomes Research
Phases of school health promotion implementation through the lens of complexity theory
Health promotion at local level
Staff Interaction Strategies That Optimize Delivery of Transitional Care in a Skilled Nursing Facility
Evaluation and mechanism for outcomes exploration of providing public health care in contract service in Rural China
Trauma and Violence Informed Care Through Decolonising Interagency Partnerships
The holistic bricolage research approach and disaster-risk reduction
“From the ground up”
‘Invested’ partnerships as key to high quality apprenticeship programmes as evidenced in on and off the job training
Exploring the Quality Paradigms in Integrated Care
The Political Economy of Addressing the Climate Crisis in the Earth System
Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA) or the Highway? An Alternative Road to Investigating the Value for Money of International Development Research
The holistic bricolage research approach
Using complexity theory to analyse the organisational response to resurgent tuberculosis across London
Equip Healthcare
Values are not enough
Nested networks and neighbour interactions
Initial teacher education
Theorising health professionals' prevention and management practices with children and young people experiencing self-harm
Mapping complexity in realist evaluation
Involuntary backsourcing in the public sector
Systems thinking in public health
Assessing the influence of knowledge translation platforms on health system policy processes to achieve the health millennium development goals in Cameroon and Uganda
Organizational complexity within private child welfare agencies in the United States and impact on agency performance outlook
Primary Care Practice Transformation is Hard Work
Evaluation of Patient Centered Medical Home Practice Transformation Initiatives
Adaptation, interaction and urgency
Connections and consequences in complex systems
Developing the Descarte Model
Regulation and Mindful Resident Care in Nursing Homes
Patterns of Medical and Nursing Staff Communication in Nursing Homes
Patient Perspectives on Transitions of Surgical Care
Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Health Research
We Need to Talk About Complexity in Health Research
Complexity and reflexivity
We're implementing AI now, so why not ask us what to do? - How AI providers perceive and navigate the spread of diagnostic AI in complex healthcare systems
Essential drugs policy in three rural counties in China
Towards a complex conception of progress
Advancing Complexity Theory as a Qualitative Research Methodology
Redefining Case Study
Weak signal detection
Expanding the prevention armamentarium portfolio
Sensemaking in organizations
Research in Organizational Behavior
Chaos, complexity, and sociology
Emergence From Chaos to Order
The myopia of learning
Complexity
The science of complexity
Learning from Samples of One or Fewer
Emergence as a Construct
Complexity, leadership, and management in healthcare organisations
The art of case study research
A Network Analysis of Social Contagion Processes in an Organizational Intervention
Improving Quality of Long-Term Care
Complexity and post-modernism
Enhancing the Rigor of Grounded Theory
We decide, you carry it out
The Population Ecology of Organizations
The Strength of Weak Ties
| Unique citing works | 48 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,4 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 44 |