Douglas R. Wholey, Ph.D.

Ph.D., Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations, Walter A. Haas School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, 1984

M.B.A., Management, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 1981

B.A., Claremont Men's College, 1970

Courses

Organizational sociology, public health management, lean management, leading collaborations, and electronic health information management.

Leading Collaborations, PubH 6721; Public Health Management, PubH 6752; Managing Electronic Health Information, PubH 6802; Sociological Theory in Health Services Research, PubH 8805

Fall 2009
6802: Managing Electronic Health Information

Spring 2010
6758: Managing Public Health Systems

Research Interests:

Management; health maintenance organizations and organizational sociology; measuring HMO markets and the effect of HMO market structures on HMOs; use of information technology among HMOs; physician organization

Recent Publications:

Town, Robert, Douglas R. Wholey, Roger Feldman, and Lawton R. Burns, Revisiting the Relationship between Managed Care and Hospital Consolidation, Health Services Research, 2007, 42(1,February), 219-238.

Wholey, Douglas R., John Engberg, and Cindy Bryce. "A Descriptive Analysis Of Average Productivity Among Health Maintenance Organizations, 1985 To 2001," Health Care Management Science, 2006, 9: 189-206.

Foote, Susan Bartlett, Douglas R. Wholey, and Rachel Halpern, "Rules for Medical Markets: The Impact Of Medicare Contractors On Coverage Policies," Health Services Research, 2006, 41(3):721-742.

Wholey, Douglas R., Jon B. Christianson, Debra A. Draper, Cara S. Lesser, and Lawton R. Burns, "Understanding The Responses Of Local Communities To Entry By National Healthcare Firms: The Importance Of Social And Economic Embeddedness", Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2004, 45(Supplement): 118-135.

Wholey, Douglas R., Ira Moscovice, Terry Hietpas, Jeremy Holtzman, "The Environmental Context of Patient Safety and Medical Errors," Journal of Rural Health, 2004, (20, 4):304-313.

Town, Robert, Douglas R. Wholey, John Kralewski, and Bryan Dowd. "Assessing the influence of incentives on physicians and medical groups," Medical Care Research and Review, 2004 (61,3): 80S-118S.

Maude-Griffin, Roland, Roger Feldman, and Douglas R. Wholey. "A Nash bargaining model of HMO premiums," Applied Economics, 2004(36, 12, July): 1329-1336.

Wholey, Douglas R., Jon Christianson, Michael Finch, David Knutson, Todd Rockwood, and Louise Warrick, "Evaluating Health Plan Quality 1: A Conceptual Model," The American Journal of Managed Care, 2003(9, Special Issue 1), SP53-SP64.

Levesque, Laurie L., Jeanne M. Wilson, and Douglas R. Wholey. “Cognitive divergence and shared mental models in software development project teams.” Journal of Organizational Behavior, 22(2001), 135-141.

Hinds, Pamela J., Kathleen M. Carley, David Krackhardt, Doug Wholey. “Choosing Workgroup Members: Balancing Similarity, Competence, and Familiarity,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 81(2, March, 2000): 226-251.

Wholey, D. R., R. Feldman, J. Christianson, & J. Engberg (1996). "Scale and Scope Economies Among HMOs." Journal of Health Economics 15: 657-684.

Wholey, D. R., R. Feldman, & J. Christianson (1995). "The Effect of Market Structure on HMO Premiums." Journal of Health Economics 14: 81-105.

Wholey, D. R., J. B. Christianson, & S. Sanchez 1993). "Professional Reorganization: The Effect of Physician and Corporate Interests on the Formation of Health Maintenance Organizations." American Journal of Sociology 99: 175-211.

Wholey, D. R., J. B. Christianson, & S. Sanchez(1992). "Organizational Size and Failure Among Health Maintenance Organizations." American Sociological Review 57: 829-842.

Burns, Lawton R. and Douglas R. Wholey. "The Diffusion of Matrix Management: Contagion Effects, Structural Effects, and Institutional Effects on Innovation Adoption." Academy of Management Journal, 36(February, 1993):106-138.

Wholey, Douglas R. "Determinants of Firm Internal Labor Markets in Large Law Firms." Administrative Science Quarterly, 30(September 1985):318-335.

Professional Experience:

Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medical and Human Science, National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester, UK. March 2005 to August 2011.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 1999 - present

Professor, Division of Health Services Research, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1998 – present. Director of the Public Health Administration and Policy program 1999 – 2004.

Associate Professor of Organizations and Information Systems, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University. With tenure in 1995. 1990 – 1998. Director, Information and Decision Systems Program, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 1994 - 1998

Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Policy, College of Business and Public Administration, University of Arizona, 1983 – 1990. Joint Appointment with the the School of Public Administration and Policy, College of Business and Public Administration, University of Arizona, 1988 – 1990.

Research Assistant, Sociology Department, Stanford University. Research assistant to John Freeman and Michael Hannan, NSF Project "Organizational Ecology.", 1979 - 1981

Systems consultant, analyst/programmer. Transamerica Computer Company, Bechtel, Fritzi of California, Transamerica Delaval, Levi Strauss, Transamerica Information Services, and the University of Connecticut Health Center, 1970 - 1978

Honors:

Fellow, Association for Health Services Research, October, 1996

National Institute for Health Care Management Research Award, 1995, for "The Effect of Market Structure on HMO Premiums." Journal of Health Economics, 14(May 1995):81-105. With Roger Feldman and Jon Christianson

Outstanding Paper in Volume Award, Academy of Management, 1987, for "Organizational Ecology: Findings and Implications." Academy of Management Review, 11(July 1986):513-533. With Jack Brittain

Ascendant Scholar Award, Western Academy of Management, 1987

Best paper based on a dissertation, "Determinants of Firm Internal Labor Markets in Large Law Firms." Organization and Management Theory Division, Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, 1984

Organizational Consortium, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 1981

Contact

Mailing Address:
Health Policy and Management
420 Delaware St SE, MMC 729
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone (Work): (612) 626-4682

Email: whole001@umn.edu