ABSTRACT
In the present study, the significance of the concept of medicalization for organizational analysis is examined as the intersection of two sets of conceptions of institutionalization: those associated with management and those associated with medicine. In defining this framework of institutionalization there is, first, a need to discuss the critical relationship between medicine and management. What does a ‘medical perspective’ on management imply; and what does a ‘management perspective’ on medicine imply? What are we seeing with the linking of medicine and organization? What are we ignoring? Such evaluation requires reflection on the ways that medical ideas inform us about management; but also about the ways management informs us about medicine.
