Carina Rohr
Supervisor(s)
Dr Paul Donnelly, Dr Brendan O’Rourke (advisory)
Postgraduate Degree(s)
MA in Business Administration at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Thesis Title
The Role of Management Ideas in an Organisational Change Process: The Case of the Establishment of the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE)
Summary
My PhD research explores the role of management ideas - such as audits, evaluations and new public management - in the case of the organisational restructuring process of the Irish health system. In 2005, a central Irish health care body, the Health Service Executive (HSE), was established, replacing the former regional structure. This study applies a qualitative, processual, single case study approach using natural occurring archival materials (e.g., parliamentary debates, health reports, newspaper articles) as data for analysis. Contributing to the literature on processual organisational change (Chia & Tsoukas, 1999; Tsoukas, 2005), I draw on the concept of translation of the actor-network theory (Callon1986; Callon & Latour 1981; Law, 1999), which has been introduced by the Scandinavian school of institutionalism (Czarniawska-Joerges & Joerges, 1996) as mode of transport of management ideas to organisational studies and, more recently, proposed by Zilber (2002, 2006) as transformation of meaning negotiated in the process of institutionalisation.
Conference Papers
‘Organizations Revisited: Human and Technological Agency in Networks Within Organizational Theory’, paper presented at the 11th annual Irish Academy of Management Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 3-5 September.
