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Der Autor befasst sich mit der Problematik der Errichtung einer Interessenvertretung für Patienten im Gesundheitswesen und den mit einem solchen Institutionalisierungsprozess zusammenhängenden rechtlichen Fragen. Ausgehend von einer Bestandsaufnahme, in welcher der Verfasser zunächst untersucht, wie es derzeit um die Repräsentanz der Patienteninteressen auf der Systemebene bestellt ist, wendet er sich der Frage zu, wie sich eine Patientenpartizipation an gesundheitspolitischen Konsensverfahren begründen lässt. In dem anschließenden konzeptionellen Teil entwickelt der Verfasser ein Ombudsmannmodell, in dem Patientenbeauftragte einerseits als Ansprechpartner für Patienten fungieren und andererseits deren Interessen auf der Systemebene repräsentieren. Ein Schwerpunkt der Erörterungen liegt dabei auf der verfassungsrechtlichen Dimension der Problematik. Geschrieben für: (Gesundheits-)Ministerien, Gesundheitsbehörden, Verbraucherzentralen und Patientenberatungsstellen Schlagworte: Gesundheitsrecht Medizinrecht Patientenbeauftragte Patientenrechte Verfassungsrecht

Boundaries in various guises are a mainstay of classical social science theory and have generated a fair share of empirical research. The tremendous transdisciplinary interest in state borders and borderlands that has been apparent since the late 1990s was matched in recent years by a similar upsurge in empirical (and, though to a lesser degree, theoretical) work on frontiers, i.e. loosely-administered spaces rich in resources and therefore coveted by non-residents. Freeing the frontier notion from an exclusive association with the past age of Caucasian colonialism and the pioneer lore of settler nations, the present thesis advances the frontier concept as a frame of analysis for the contests for property and resources and the struggles for cultural dominance which take place at the internal peripheries of developing nations. It insists that these peripheries are very unlike the center, and pinpoints the characteristics that render them highly peculiar geographical, political, social and cultural spaces . ; + zhb_1103013 + Sprache: eng + Code Diss LU: UNILU Diss 2009 F2 EL

In this article we attempt to provide some reorientation for the use of the concept of knowledge within management studies. The point of departure is the striking discrepancy between the great importance nowadays attributed to knowledge (knowledge economy, knowledge resources, knowledge societies, knowledge-intensive firms, etc.) on the one hand and the vague and blurring conceptualizations of knowledge on the other hand. Informed by philosophy of science a revised concept of knowledge is suggested that basically draws on communication and reflection. The core idea is that knowledge should be treated as a distinctive term which allows for a differentiation between knowledge and non-knowledge. The suggested concept therefore makes discursive examination a central part of the notion of knowledge. In the final part we attempt to demonstrate the possible benefi ts of such re-orientation by analysing both its theoretical and practical implications.

This paper examines how routine patterns are recognized as either stable or flexible and which mechanisms are enacted to maintain this patterning work. We address this question through an ethnographic case study analyzing how a catastrophe management organization enacts routines in a highly dynamic setting. Our findings first of all reveal that patterns described by the participants as either stable or flexible were nevertheless both performed differently in each iteration of the routine. Our microlevel analysis shows that to enact patterns that participants perceive as stable, participants had to carry out specific aligning and prioritizing activities that lock-stepped performances. In contrast, participants perceive patterns as flexible when they enact specific selecting and recombining activities. Building on these observations, we add to extant routine literature by (1) differentiating between stability, standardization, flexibility, and change of routines and by (2) providing new insights on mindfulness in accounting for the microlevel activities enacted to orient toward a pattern that enhances standardization or flexibility in dynamic contexts. Moreover, (3) our insights point to the centrality of knowing for the enactment and recognition of patterning work.