BACKGROUND Making evidence-based practice (EBP) a reality throughout an organization is a challenging goal in healthcare services. Leadership has been recognized as a critical element in that process. However, little is known about the exact role and function of various levels of leadership in the successful institutionalization of EBP within an organization. AIMS To uncover what leaders at d...

Crossan, Lane and White (1999) presented a model of organizational learning that includes intuiting, interpreting, integrating and institutionalizing processes. Organizational learning studies that have followed Crossan, Lane and White’s 1999 4I framework have explored and elaborated on the initial three processes of organizational learning. Theses studies however, have not fully elaborated on ...

A systematic review of randomized controlled trials published from 1970-2002 was conducted to assess whether specialized inpatient stroke rehabilitation is associated with improved outcomes compared to conventional care. Twelve studies involving 2,813 patients were included for detailed review. The methodological quality of the studies was assessed using the PEDro Scale. The outcomes of death, ...

The article analyzes how the separation of the teaching of medicine and of dentistry occurred in Brazil. It highlights the role that the institutionalization of dental teaching policies played in shaping a professional identity. Relations are drawn between teaching policies and professional practices to show how their relationships and meanings have changed historically. It is argued that the t...

Diffusion and institutionalization are of prime sociological importance, as both processes unfold at the intersections of relations and structures, as well as persistence and change. Yet they are often confounded, leading to theoretical and methodological biases that hinder the development of generalizable arguments. We look at diffusion and institutionalization distinctively, each as both a pr...

Defining institutions as taken-for-granted systems of roles and interactions, this paper presents a novel theoretical integration hereto disparate micro macro approaches to their social construction. Building on modifying Berger Luckmann (1967), I emphasize the cultural embeddedness phenomenological experience embodiment in organizations organizing practices. The identifies mechanisms by which ...