Positive organisational scholarship in healthcare
Abstract
Welcome to an international first - a special issue dedicated to positive organisational scholarship in healthcare (POSH). Its precursor - positive organisational scholarship (POS) - is the study of that which is flourishing and life-giving (Cameron & Spreitzer,2012b). Since its relatively short, two-decade history, POS has achieved a robust state of legitimacy. Consider the growing wealth of POS publications (Bright & Miller,2013; Cameron,2017; Cameron & Spreitzer,2012b; Nilsson,2015; Quinn & Cameron,2019; Waters Robichau,2017), as well as broader scrutiny about the limited value of perpetual, incremental and deficiency-focussed 'bite-sized chunks or research' (Tourish,2019: 1). This special issue features POS by purposely situating it in the context of healthcare, thereby extending POS to POSH. As a helpful entrée to this special issue, we - as guest editors - address three pertinent questions; namely, what is PSH; why is it needed; and given the scholarship presented in this special issue, where to next?
Keywords
Positive organisational scholarship in healthcare, POSH, Positive organisational scholarship, POS, special issue
Document Type
Editorial
Date of Publication
1-1-2020
Publication Title
Journal of Management & Organization
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
School
School of Business and Law
RAS ID
31543
Copyright
subscription content
Comments
Dadich, A., & Farr-Wharton, B. (2020). Positive organisational scholarship in healthcare [Editorial]. Journal of Management & Organization, 26(3), 289-295. https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2020.6