All Outputs (4)

Leadership identity construction in a hybrid medical context: ‘Claimed’ but not ‘granted' (2023)
Journal Article
Howieson, B., Bushfield, S., & Martin, G. (2024). Leadership identity construction in a hybrid medical context: ‘Claimed’ but not ‘granted'. European Management Journal, 42(5), 745-756. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2023.04.012

In the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS), the growing number of hybrid clinical leaders has given rise to professional practice and identity struggles. Co-construction theories of leadership point to a need for leaders to engage in signifi... Read More about Leadership identity construction in a hybrid medical context: ‘Claimed’ but not ‘granted'.

Changing Logics in Healthcare and Their Effects on the Identity Motives and Identity Work of Doctors (2020)
Journal Article
Martin, G., Bushfield, S., Siebert, S., & Howieson, B. (2021). Changing Logics in Healthcare and Their Effects on the Identity Motives and Identity Work of Doctors. Organization Studies, 42(9), 1477-1499. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619895871

Recent literature on hybridity has provided useful insights into how professionals have responded to changing institutional logics. Our focus in on how shifting logics have shaped senior medical professionals’ identity motives and identity work in a... Read More about Changing Logics in Healthcare and Their Effects on the Identity Motives and Identity Work of Doctors.

Eroding ‘Respectability’: Deprofessionalization through organizational spaces (2017)
Journal Article
Siebert, S., Bushfield, S., Martin, G., & Howieson, B. (2018). Eroding ‘Respectability’: Deprofessionalization through organizational spaces. Work, Employment and Society, 32(2), 330-347. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017017726948

This article addresses the question – can a deterioration in organizational spaces erode a profession’s status? It draws on the organizational spaces literature to analyse the relationship between design of the physical work setting and senior doctor... Read More about Eroding ‘Respectability’: Deprofessionalization through organizational spaces.

Potential challenges facing distributed leadership in health care: evidence from the UK National Health Service (2014)
Journal Article
Martin, G., Beech, N., MacIntosh, R., & Bushfield, S. (2015). Potential challenges facing distributed leadership in health care: evidence from the UK National Health Service. Sociology of health and illness, 37(1), 14-29. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12171

The discourse of leaderism in health care has been a subject of much academic and practical debate. Recently, distributed leadership (DL) has been adopted as a key strand of policy in the UK National Health Service (NHS). However, there is some confu... Read More about Potential challenges facing distributed leadership in health care: evidence from the UK National Health Service.