Understanding how practices are adopted in organizations has been a long-standing puzzle in organizational studies – a puzzle even more pertinent in health care organizations which continuously strive to develop and implement ever more effective clinical practices. While rational and institutional angles offer important, partial explanations, a practice-based view engages with the actual micro-sociological dynamics of practice adoption. A particularly pertinent and consequential barrier for practice adoption consists in the stigmatization of practices. Drawing on a longitudinal, indicative case study of palliative in a children's hospital, this study explores how novel, effective practices are stigmatized and destigmatized.
PhD candidate: Konstanze Krüger
