Margarete Arndt
Professor of Management
DBA, Boston University
E-mail: marndt@clarku.edu
Phone: 508-793-7668
Research Interests
History of hospital administration as an occupation, transfer of business practices into hospitals
Teaching Courses
Leadership and Decision Making
Women in Management
Key Publications/Presentations
Arndt, M. and B. Bigelow. 2007. Hospital administration in the early 1900s: Visions for the future and the reality of daily practice. Journal of Healthcare Management 52(1):34-37
Arndt, M. and B. Bigelow. 2006. Towards the creation of an institutional logic for the management of hospitals: Efficiency in the early nineteen hundreds. Medical Care Research and Review 63(3):369-394
Arndt, M. and B. Bigelow. 2005. Professionalizing and masculinizing a female occupation: The reconceptualization of hospital administration. Administrative Science Quarterly. 5O:233-261
Arndt, M. and B. Bigelow. 2000. Presenting structural innovation in an institutional environment: Hospitals' use of impression management. Administrative Science Quarterly. 45(3)
Arndt, M. and B. Bigelow. 2000. The transfer of business practices into hospitals: History and implications. Advances in Health Care Management. JAI Press, Inc. vol. 1
Bigelow, B. and M. Arndt. 1999. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Health Care Management Review. 25(1):65-72