Mobilizing Knowledge in Healthcare : Challenges for Management and Organization

The divide between research and practice is one of the biggest challenges to healthcare improvement globally. This book aims to build a research-led, empirically-grounded, state of the art review of how knowledge is mobilized in healthcare settings and the critical challenges involved.

Jacky Swan, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick,Sue Newell, Professor of Information Systems and Management and Head of the Department of Business and Management, University of Sussex,Davide Nicolini, Professor of Organization Studies, and co-Director of the IKON research centre, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Jacky Swan is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, joint founder and Co-Director of the IKON Research Centre. Her research links innovation and networking to processes of creating, sharing and managing knowledge in complex organizational contexts, including healthcare. She recently completed a major funded study of the use of evidence-based knowledge in healthcare commissioning management.


Sue Newell is Professor of Information Systems and Management and Head of the Department of Business and Management, at Sussex University. She has a BSc and PhD from Cardiff University, UK. Sue's research focuses on understanding the relationships between innovation, knowledge and organizational networking, primarily from an organizational theory perspective.


Davide Nicolini is Professor of Organization Studies, as well as co-Director of the IKON research centre, both at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. Widely published in major international journals, his current research focuses on the development of the practice-based approach and its application to phenomena such as knowing, collaboration, innovation and change in organizations.