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Citations
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World Ranking
491
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Ewan Ferlie is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on social sciences, business, management, and health professions. They have a diverse range of publications contributing to topics such as public policy and administration research, innovative approaches in technology and social development, and service and product innovation.

The main fields of study where Ferlie has contributed most extensively include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Health Professions

Within these, Ferlie's research explores several subfields, concentrating in particular on public administration and health-related professions. The subfields of study include:

  • Public Administration
  • General Health Professions
  • Management of Technology and Innovation
  • Marketing
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

The major research topics covered in Ferlie's work are:

  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
  • Service and Product Innovation
  • Open Source Software Innovations
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Public-Private Partnership Projects

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ferlie include:

  • Edoardo Ongaro
  • Jacob Torfing
  • Tina Jukić
  • Alessandro Sancino
  • Irene Pluchinotta

Ferlie has had publications in a number of reputable venues, with repeat contributions particularly in:

  • Policy & Politics
  • Journal of Global Health
  • International Journal of Project Management
  • Organization Studies
  • Public Management Review

Recent notable papers by Ferlie include:

  • A theoretical framework for studying the co-creation of innovative solutions and public value, 2021, Policy & Politics
  • The institutional shaping of global megaprojects: The case of the Lyon-Turin high-speed railway, 2021, International Journal of Project Management
  • Investigating infection management and antimicrobial stewardship in surgery: a qualitative study from India and South Africa, 2021, Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Strategic Management in Public Organizations: Profiling the Public Entrepreneur as Strategist, 2020, The American Review of Public Administration
  • Strategic management as an enabler of co-creation in public services, 2021, Policy & Politics

In the area of books, Ferlie has published a work titled Strategic Management of the Transition to Public Sector Co-Creation through Policy Press in 2024.

Among their recognitions, Ferlie is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The New Public Management in Action

    Ewan Ferlie;Lynn Ashburner;Louise Fitzgerald;Andrew Pettigrew

  • Improving the quality of health care in the United Kingdom and the United States: a framework for change.

    Ewan B. Ferlie;Stephen M. Shortell

  • The Nonspread of Innovations: the Mediating Role of Professionals

    Ewan Ferlie;Louise Fitzgerald;Martin Wood;Chris Hawkins

  • Shaping Strategic Change: The Case of the NHS in the 1980s

    Andrew Pettigrew;Ewan Ferlie;Lorna McKee

  • Towards systematic reviews that inform health care management and policy-making.

    John Lavis;Huw Davies;Andy Oxman;Jean-Louis Denis

  • The steering of higher education systems: a public management perspective

    Ewan Ferlie;Christine Musselin;Gianluca Andresani

  • Shaping Strategic Change

    Andrew Pettigrew;Ewan Ferlie;Lorna Mckee

  • New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects

    Ewan Ferlie;Kate McLaughlin;Stephen P Osborne

  • The Oxford Handbook of Public Management

    Ewan Ferlie;Laurence E. Lynn;Christopher Pollitt

  • Interlocking Interactions, the Diffusion of Innovations in Health Care

    Louise Fitzgerald;Ewan Ferlie;Martin Wood;Chris Hawkins

  • Process Transformation: Limitations to Radical Organizational Change within Public Service Organizations

    Terry McNulty;Ewan Ferlie

  • Hybrid manager-professionals' identity work : the maintenance and hybridization of medical professionalism in managerial contexts

    Gerry McGivern;Graeme Currie;Ewan Ferlie;Louise Fitzgerald

  • Reengineering Health Care: The Complexities of Organizational Transformation

    Terry McNulty;Ewan Ferlie

  • A study of the relationship between job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention among hospital employees

    Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad;Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad;Ewan Ferlie;Duska Rosenberg

  • PUBLIC POLICY NETWORKS AND ‘WICKED PROBLEMS’: A NASCENT SOLUTION?

    Ewan Ferlie;Louise Fitzgerald;Gerry McGivern;Sue Dopson

  • No magic targets! Changing clinical practice to become more evidence based.

    Sue Dopson;Louise FitzGerald;Ewan Ferlie;John Gabbay

  • Changing Public Service Organizations: Current Perspectives and Future Prospects

    Ewan Ferlie;Jean Hartley;Stephen James Martin

  • An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research

    Trisha Greenhalgh;Ellen Annandale;Richard Ashcroft;James Barlow

  • A study of relationship between job stress, quality of working life and turnover intention among hospital employees

    Ali Mohammad Mosadeghrad;Ewan Ferlie;Duska Rosenberg

  • UNDERSTANDING HYBRIDITY IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS

    Jean Louis Denis;Ewan Ferlie;Nicolette Van Gestel

  • Managing Through Networks: Some Issues and Implications for the NHS

    Ewan Ferlie;Andrew Pettigrew

  • Nobody in charge: Distributed change agency in healthcare:

    David A. Buchanan;Rachael Addicott;Louise Fitzgerald;Ewan Ferlie

  • Applying Strategic Management Theories in Public Sector Organizations: Developing a typology

    Jesper Rosenberg Hansen;Ewan Ferlie

  • Networks, Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management: NHS Cancer Networks

    Rachael Addicott;Gerald McGivern;Ewan Ferlie

  • Shaping Strategic Change: Making Change in Large Organisations, the Case of the NHS

    Andrew Pettigrew;Ewan Ferlie;Lorna McKee

Frequent Co-Authors

Louise Fitzgerald
Louise Fitzgerald University of Oxford
Sue Dopson
Sue Dopson University of Oxford
Andrew Pettigrew
Andrew Pettigrew University of Oxford
Susan Michie
Susan Michie University College London
Jane M Blazeby
Jane M Blazeby University of Bristol
Louise Locock
Louise Locock University of Aberdeen
Gill Livingston
Gill Livingston University College London
Graeme Currie
Graeme Currie University of Warwick
David Challis
David Challis University of Nottingham
Jean-Louis Denis
Jean-Louis Denis University of Toronto

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