Barbara Bigelow
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor of Business Policy and Health Administration
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
Phone: 508-793-7103
Email: bbigelow@clarku.edu
Curriculum Vitae for Dr. Bigelow
Research Interests
Strategic management in health care organizations, particularly the adoption of management innovations by hospitals.
Teaching Courses
Business Policy
Spirituality and Business
Strategic Management in Nonprofit Organizations
Key Publications
Bigelow, B. and Arndt, M. 2007. Self-interest and opportunism in the hospital industry: A historical perspective. In J.D. Blair, M.D. Fottler, E.W. Ford, & G.T. Payne, eds., Advances in Health Care Management Volume 6. Boston: JAI Press.
Arndt, M. and Bigelow, B. 2007. Hospital administration in the early 1900s: visions for the future and the reality of daily practice. Journal of healthcare Management 52 (1): 34-47.
Arndt, M. and Bigelow, B. 2006. Toward the creation of an institutional logic for the management of hospitals: Efficiency in the early nineteen hundreds. Medical Care Research and Review 63 (3): 1-26.
Arndt, M. and Bigelow, B. 2005. Professionalizing and masculinizing a female occupation: The reconceptualization of hospital administration in the early 1900s. Administrative Science Quarterly 50: 233-261.
Bigelow, B. and Arndt, M. 2005. Transformational change in health care: Changing the question. Hospital Topics 83 (2): 19-26