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Values Alignment in Sustaining Healthcare Innovation Processes

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Innovating has always been an integral aspect of health and care as it impacts the ability to deliver and improve services for increasingly complex needs. Yet, health and care innovations often fail to spread or are slow in uptake. In this chapter, we focus on the role of values in implementing and sustaining innovation in healthcare settings. We argue that the alignment or mismatch of values has significant implications for the uptake and diffusion of innovations. Using data from two case studies of social care innovations we show that the mechanisms that underpin values alignment as well as the actors involved change as innovations evolve.

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    Ila Bharatan

  2. Warwick Business School, Coventry, UK

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  3. Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK

    Rachel M. Manning

  4. IKON, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Jacky Swan

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Bharatan, I., Logan, K., Manning, R.M., Swan, J. (2023). Values Alignment in Sustaining Healthcare Innovation Processes. In: Burgess, N., Currie, G. (eds) Shaping High Quality, Affordable and Equitable Healthcare. Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24212-0_14

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