Consultant's role: a qualitative inquiry from the consultant's perspective

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Americo Abbruzzese Herbert L. Abrams Stanley J. Adelstein Milton H. Alper William A. Altemeir Alan G. Birtch Bruce R. Brener John R. Brooks Hathorn P. Brown Theodore Colton Oliver Cope Nathan P. Couch Chilton Crane Gustave J. Dammin Donald P. Dressler J. Englebert Dunphy Richard W. Dwight Robert M. Filler William P. Grigsby Richard E. Hicks David Littmann Emmanuel Mannarino William V. McDermott...

The Role of Consultants in Organizational Learning

This paper aims to find out how the OL processes (i.e. intuiting, interpreting, integrating and institutionalizing) are influenced by the roles of consultants. Through a longitudinal case study, it was found that based on the directive roles of consultants, the evidence of the direct use of intuition was weak but the processes of interpreting and integrating became the main constraints for lean...

The consultants’ role in the referring process with general practitioners: partners or adjudicators? a qualitative study

BACKGROUND Within the health system, communication between the different levels of care is essential for the patients' clinical pathways and medical treatment. This includes the referral process: how and why patients are sent from the primary care level to specialist health services. We wanted to identify and describe hospital consultants' reflections on and attitudes to the referral process an...

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