Professor Martin Kitchener

Teaching profile

Management Theory & Practice, BSc Econ, Module Leader
Strategic Leadership, MPA, Module Leader

Research interests

Public sector management and policy, health care organisation and performance, patient safety, the organisation of long-term care, professional work control, organisation theory, and social movement studies.

Current Research Funding

2011-14, Kitchener, M. (PI), J. Waring, and A. Herepath. Hospital Patient Safety: A Realist Analysis. National Institute for Health Research Service, Delivery and Organisation (SDO) £322,829.

2010-13, J. Gray (PI), M. Kitchener et al. Registered Research Group in Patient Safety. Welsh Assembly Government £375,000.

2008-12, Kitchener, M., Consultant (C. Harrington, P.I.). Meeting the Nation's Needs for Personal Assistance Services: Center for Personal Assistance Services. National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, $40,000 (from $4.5 million).

Selected publications

Books

Currie, G., and M. Kitchener (Eds.). 2010. Organizing Health Services. London: Sage.

Whipp, R., I. Kirkpatrick, and M. Kitchener. 2005. Managing Residential Children's Care: A Managed Service. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Currie, G., R. Dingwall, M. Kitchener, and J. Waring. Forthcoming. "Let's Dance: Organization Studies, Medical Sociology and Health Policy." Social Science and Medicine.

Ng., T., C. Harrington, and M. Kitchener. Forthcoming. "Do Medicaid Waivers Save Money?" Home Health Care Quarterly.

Adelman, T. M. Kitchener, T. Ng, and C. Harrington. M. Forthcoming. "Change and Inertia in the New York State Medicaid Personal Care Program: An Institutional Case Study". Journal of Aging and Social Policy.

Kitchener, M. and E. Mertz. Forthcoming. "Professional Projects and Institutional Change in Healthcare: The Case of American Dentistry". Social Science and Medicine.

Ng, T., C. Harrington, and M. Kitchener. 2010. "Medicare and Medicaid in Long-Term Care. Health Affairs 29/1: 1-7.

Tellez, M., J. Spetz, J. Seago, M. Kitchener, and C. Harrington. 2009. "Do Wages Matter?: A Backward Bend in the 2004 California RN Labor Supply." Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice 10:195-203.

Swan, J., M. Kitchener, and C. Harrington. 2009. "Medicaid Nursing Facility Rates, Capacity and Utilization: A Structural Analysis." Social Work in Public Health 24/5: 380-400.

Kitchener, M., T. Ng, H. Lee, and C. Harrington. 2008. "Assistive Technology in Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waiver Programs." The Gerontologist 48/2: 181-189.

Miller, N., K. Elder, M. Kitchener, Y. Kang, and C. Harrington. 2008. "Medicaid 1915c Waiver Use and Expenditures for Persons with HIV/AIDS. Medical Care Research and Review 65/3: 338-355.

Kitchener, M., J. O'Meara, A. Brody, H. Lee and C. Harrington. 2008. "Shareholder Value and The Performance of a Large Nursing Home Chain." Health Services Research 43/3: 1062-1084.

Kitchener, M., T. Ng, and C. Harrington. 2007. "State Medicaid Home Care Policies: Inside the Black Box". Home Health Care Quarterly 26/3: 23-38.

Grossman, B., M. Kitchener, J. Mullan, and C. Harrington. 2007. "Paid Personal Assistance Services: An Exploratory Study of Working Age Consumers' Perspectives." Journal of Aging and Social Policy 19/3: 27-46.

Kitchener, M., T. Ng, and C. Harrington. 2007. "Medicaid State Plan Personal Care Services: Trends in Programs and Policies." Journal of Aging and Social Policy 19/3: 9-26.

Kitchener, M., and F. Caro. 2007. "Personal Assistance". Journal of Aging and Social Policy 19/3: 1-8.

Kitchener, M., T. Ng, H. Carrillo, N. Miller, and C. Harrington. 2007. "Developing Personal Care Programs: National Trends and Interstate Variation" Inquiry 44/1: 69-87.

Quinn, K. and M. Kitchener. 2007. "The Role of Medicaid in the Many Markets for Health Care." Health Care Financing Review 28/4: 1-14.

Kitchener, M., T. Ng, and C. Harrington. 2007. "Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services for the Elderly: Trends in Programs and Policies" Journal of Applied Gerontology 26/3: 305-324.

Kitchener, M., T. Ng, N. Miller, and C. Harrington. 2006. "Public Expenditure Savings from the Use of Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waivers." Journal of Health and Social Policy 22/2: 31-50.

Kitchener, M., J. Swan, and C. Harrington. 2006. "Medicaid Nursing Facility Utilization." Research on Aging. 24/4: 493-514.

Miller, N., K. Elder, A. Rubin, M. Kitchener, and C. Harrington. 2006. "Strengthening Home and Community Based Care Through Medicaid Waivers." Journal of Aging and Social Policy 18/1: 1-16.

Kitchener, M., M. Hernandez, T. Ng, and C. Harrington. 2006. "Residential Care Provision in Medicaid Home and Community-Based Waivers: A National Study of Program Trends." The Gerontologist 46/2: 165-172.

Kitchener, M, C. O'Neill, and C. Harrington. 2005. "Chain Reaction: An Exploratory Study of Nursing Home Bankruptcy in California." Journal of Aging and Social Policy 17/4: 19-36.

Miller, N., M. Kitchener, K. Elder, Y. Kang, A. Rubin, and C. Harrington. 2005. "Variation by Disability in State Predictors of Medicaid 1915c Waiver Use and Expenditures" The Gerontologist 45/6: 764-772.

Kitchener, M., T. Ng, B. Grossman, and C. Harrington. 2005. "Medicaid Waiver Programs for Brain and Spinal Cord Injury." Journal of Health and Social Policy 20/3: 51-66.

Beynon, M., and M. Kitchener. 2005. "Ranking the 'Balance' of States Long-Term Care Systems: A Comparative Exposition of the SMARTER and CaRBS Techniques." Healthcare Management Science 8/2: 157-166.

O'Meara, J., M. Kitchener, E. Collier, L. Simon, and C. Harrington. 2005. "Development of and Stakeholder Responses to a Nursing Home Consumer Information System." American Journal of Medical Quality 20/1: 40-50.

Kitchener, M., T. Ng, and C. Harrington. 2005. "Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services: National Program Trends." Health Affairs 24/1: 206-212.

Kitchener, M., C. Caronna, and S. Shortell. 2005. "From the Doctors' Workshop to the Iron Cage? Evolving Modes of Physician Control in US Health Systems." Social Science and Medicine 60: 1311-1322.

Ng, T., M. Kitchener, and C. Harrington. 2004. "Medicaid Home Care Waivers for Persons with HIV/AIDS: Program Expenditures, Participants and Polices." AIDS and Public Policy Journal 19 (3/4): 95-109.

Kitchener M., and C. Harrington. 2004. "U.S. Long-term Care: A Dialectic Analysis of Institutional Dynamics." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 45 (Extra issue): 87-101.

Harrington, C., S. Anzaldo, A. Burdin, M. Kitchener, and N. Miller. 2004. "Trends in State Certificate of Need and Moratoria Programs for Long Term Care Providers." Journal of Health and Social Policy 19/2: 31-58.

Kitchener M., M. Beynon, and C. Harrington. 2004. "Explaining the Diffusion of Medicaid Home Care Waiver Programs Using VPRS Decision Rules." Healthcare Management Science 7/3: 237-244.

Kitchener, M, A. Bostrom, and C. Harrington. 2004. "Smoke Without Fire: Nursing Facility Closures, 1997-2001." Inquiry 41/2: 189-202.

Kitchener, M., T. Ng, and C. Harrington. 2004. "Medicaid 1915(c) Home and Community-Based Services Waivers: A National Survey of Eligibility Criteria, Caps, and Waiting Lists." Home Health Care Services Quarterly 23/2: 55-69.

Kitchener, M, H. Carrillo, and C. Harrington. 2003. "Medicaid Home and Community-Based Programs: A Longitudinal Analysis of State Variation in Expenditures and Utilization." Inquiry 40/4: 375-389.

O'Neill, C., C. Harrington, M. Kitchener, and D. Saliba. 2003. "Quality of Care in Nursing Homes: An Analysis of the Relationships Among Profit, Quality and Ownership." Medical Care 41/12: 1318-1330.

Kitchener, M., and L. Gask. 2003. "NPM Merger Mania: Lessons From an Early Case." Public Management Review 5/1: 19-44.

Harrington, C., J. O'Meara, M. Kitchener, L. P. Simon, and J. F. Schnelle. 2003. "Designing a Report Card for Nursing Facilities: What Information is Needed and Why." The Gerontologist 43/II: 47-57.

Harrington, C., E. Collier, J. O'Meara, M. Kitchener, L. P. Simon, and J. F. Schnelle. 2003. "Federal and State Nursing Facility Websites: Just What the Consumer Needs?" American Journal of Medical Quality 18/1: 21-38.

Kitchener, M. 2002. "Mobilizing the Logic of Managerialism in Professional Fields: The Case of Academic Health Center Mergers." Organization Studies 23/3: 391-420.

Kitchener, M., M. Beynon, and C. Harrington. 2002. "QCA and Public Services Research: Lessons From an Early Application." Public Management Review 4/4: 485-504.

Kirkpatrick, I., M. Kitchener, and R. Whipp. 2001. "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Assessing the Impact of Markets for Children's Residential Care." Public Administration 79/1: 49-71.

Boyne, G., I. Kirkpatrick, and M. Kitchener. 2001. "New Labour and the Modernization of Public Management." Public Administration 79/1: 1-4.

Kitchener, M. 2000. "The Bureaucratization of Professional Roles: The Case of Clinical Directors in UK Hospitals." Organization 7/1: 129-154.

Kitchener, M., I. Kirkpatrick, and R. Whipp. 2000. "Supervising Professional Work Under New Public Management: Evidence from an Invisible Trade." British Journal of Management 11/3: 213-226.

Kitchener, M., I. Kirkpatrick, and R. Whipp. 1999. "Decoupling Managerial Audit: Evidence from the Local Authority Children's Homes Sector." International Journal of Public Sector Management 12/4: 338-350.

Kirkpatrick, I., M. Kitchener, D. Owen, and R. Whipp. 1999. "Un-Charted Territory? Experiences of the Purchaser/Provider Split in Local Authority Children's Services." British Journal of Social Work 29: 707-726.

Kitchener, M. 1998. "Quasi-Market Transformation: An Institutionalist Approach to Change in UK Hospitals." Public Administration 76/1: 73-96.

Kitchener, M. and R. Whipp. 1997. "Tracks of Change in Hospitals: A Study of Quasi-Market Transformation." International Journal of Public Sector Management 10/1: 47-62. Reprinted in Journal of Management in Medicine. 1998. 12/4: 241-256.

McNulty, T., R. Whittington, R. Whipp, and M. Kitchener. 1994. "Putting Marketing Into NHS Hospitals: Issues About Implementation." Public Money and Management 14/3: 51-59.

Kitchener, M., and R. Whipp. 1994. "Professionals, Quality and the Marketing Change Process." Management Research 17/8: 73-74.

Kitchener, M. 1992. "Managing Marketing Change: A Study of the NHS." Journal of Industrial Affairs 1/2: 38-40.

McNulty, T., R. Whipp, R. Whittington, and M. Kitchener. 1992. "Managing Market-Oriented Change in the Public and Private Sectors." Management Research 5/6: 36-38.

Book Chapters

Beynon, M., and M Kitchener, M. Forthcoming. "Data Mining Using Fuzzy Decision Trees: An Exposition From a Study of Public Services Strategy in the USA." In A. Syvajarvi, and J. Stenvall, (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Data Mining in Public and Private Sectors: Organisational and Government Associations. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Kitchener, M. 2010. "Social Movement Challenges to Structural Archetypes: Abortion Rights, AIDS, and Lomng-Term Care." In J. Banaszak-Holl, S. Levinsky, and M. Zald, and (eds.) Social Movements and the Transformation of American Healthcare pp.118-128. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kitchener, M., and B. Leca. 2009. "A Critical Realist Analysis of Change in the Field of US Nursing Homes." In G. Currie, J. Ford, N. Harding, and M. Learmonth (eds.) Making Public Services Management Critical. London: Routledge.

Kitchener, M., and M. Exworthy. 2008. "Modes of Medical Work Control: A Theory Elaboration from English General Practice." In L. McKee, E. Ferlie and P. Hyde Organizing and Reorganizing: Power and Change in Healthcare Organizations pp. 209-223. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

Beynon, M. and M. Kitchener. 2006. "Analyzing Strategic Stance in Public Services Management: An Exposition of NCaRBS in a Study of Long-Term Care Systems." In K. E. Voges and N. K. Pope (Eds.) Business Applications and Computational Intelligence, pp. 345-360. Pennsylvania, PA: IDEA.

Kitchener, M. 2004. "Exploding the Merger Myth in US Healthcare." In C. Harrington and C. Estes (Eds.) Health Policy: Crisis and Reform in the U.S. Health Care Delivery System, 4th Edition, pp. 162-168. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Kitchener, M. 1999. "All Fur Coat and No Knickers: Organisational Change in UK Hospitals." In D. Brock, C. R. Hinings and M. Powell (Eds.) Restructuring The Professional Organisation: Accounting, Health Care and Law, pp. 183-200. London: Routledge.

Kitchener, M., and R. Whipp. 1995. "Quality in the Marketing Change Process." In M. Martinez and I. Kirkpatrick (Eds.) The Politics of Quality: Management of Change in the UK Public Sector, pp. 190-212. London: Routledge.

Kitchener, M. 1994. "Investigating Marketing Change: A Comparative-Intensive Approach." In V. Wass and P. Wells (Eds.) Principles and Practice in Business and Management Research, pp. 207-233. Aldershot: Dartmouth Press.

Recent Research Reports

Kitchener, M. H. Mellett, and A. Herepath. 2010. A Review of the Funding Model that Supports Postgraduate Medical Training in Wales. Cardiff: Cardiff Business School.

Kitchener, M., T. Ng, and C. Harrington. 2007. Medicaid 1915(c) Home and Community-Based Service Programs: Data Update. Washington DC: The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, December.

Kane, R.A., Kane, R.L., Kitchener, M., Priester, R., and Harrington, C. 2006. State Long Term Care Systems: Organizing for Rebalancing. Submitted to the Division of Advocacy and Special Programs, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota.

Kitchener, M., T. Ng, and C. Harrington. 2006. Medicaid 1915(c) Home and Community-Based Service Programs: Data Update. Washington DC: The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, August.

Kitchener, M., M. Willmott, and C. Harrington. 2006. Texas Medicaid State Plan Personal Care Services: Case Study. UCSF National Center for Personal Assistance Services. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, July.

Kitchener, M., M. Willmott, and C. Harrington. 2006. Arkansas Medicaid State Plan Personal Care Services: Case Study. UCSF National Center for Personal Assistance Services. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, June.

Kitchener, M., M. Willmott, and C. Harrington. 2006. Washington Medicaid State Plan Personal Care Services: Case Study. UCSF National Center for Personal Assistance Services. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, November.

Activities

2007-2013 External Examiner, Nottingham University, MBA in Public Services
2000-2007 Professor, University of California, San Francisco
2003 Services Employees International Union (SEIU), Research Recognition Award
1999-2000 Harkness Research Fellowship in Health Policy at University of California, Berkeley
1990-1993 Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), Management Teaching Fellow