Medicine

S. Glouberman, Henry Mintzberg

2001HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT REVIEW

DOI: 10.1097/00004010-200101000-00006

tlooto Summary

Part I of this article presents a framework to help understand how the management of institutions and social systems becomes surprisingly convoluted when combined into institutions and broadened into social systems.

Abstract

The clinical methods used in health care and disease cure are easily understood. Yet when combined into institutions and broadened into social systems, the management of them becomes surprisingly convoluted. Part I of this article presents a framework to help understand how this happens.

Citation format

GLOUBERMAN, S.; MINTZBERG, Henry. Managing the care of health and the cure of disease--part i: Differentiation. HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT REVIEW, 2001, 26 1: 56–69;discussion87–9.