dick scott on the advantages of a field level conception for multilevel approaches
OK, while we’re in luminary mode around here, here’s a keynote address that Dick Scott recently gave at a health care conference. I think orgs scholars will also enjoy the talk. It definitely has some theoretical punch.
The first ten minutes offer a nice primer — one that will be very familiar to most orgheads — of macro organizational sociology, key concepts and levels of analysis (fields, logics, actors, etc).
Thereafter it gets meta-theoretical. At 18:52 (through 24:55) Dick outlines a half dozen+ “advantages of a field level conception for multi-level approaches.” An interesting discussion and a nice defense of field-level approaches.
(I’m admittedly not a “fields” guy — at all — but can certainly still appreciate this. Dick’s orgs bible/book was what first got me hopelessly fascinated with org theory. Plus, this is Dick Scott in HD, what more can you want!)
The subsequent discussion focuses on applying the key concepts and fields notion to health care, which obviously has been the context for much of Scott’s work during the last decades.
For those interested in hearing more on organizational analyses of health care (or more in general from Dick Scott), there will be a special “Leaders in the Field” medical sociology roundtable session at ASA on Monday, August 22 @ 4:30PM featuring Dick Scott, Peter Mendel and others who work in the analysis of health care organizations.
KMD
August 8, 2011 at 11:20 am