Micro-Enterprise and Personalisation
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-1922-1 (ISBN)
What size is 'just right' for a care provider? This book explores size as an independent variable in care services. Using interviews and surveys with 108 people using services and carers in 27 case-study organisations it focuses on the contribution micro-enterprise can make to the care sector.
Catherine Needham is Reader in Public Policy and Public Management at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. She has written extensively on social care. Kerry Allen is a lecturer at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. Her research interests include participatory research and the design and delivery of social care services. Kelly Hall is a Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests include health and social care social enterprises and micro-enterprises.
Introduction: what size is `just right’ for a care provider?;
Why study size?;
Enterprise and care;
Methods for co-productive research;
What it means to be micro;
Micro-enterprises: better outcomes at a lower cost;
Enacting personalisation on a micro scale;
Micro innovation: what, how and who?;
How micro-enterprise performs;
Sustainability: are micro-enterprises built to last?;
Conclusion: scaling down?;
Appendix 1: Site one interview schedule;
Appendix 2: Adapted ASCOT tool;
Appendix 3: Developing the innovation theme codes.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.12.2016 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 7 Tables, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Bristol |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4473-1922-2 / 1447319222 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4473-1922-1 / 9781447319221 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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