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作者：Preuss, Lutz; Walker, Helen
作者单位：University of London; Royal Holloway University London; Cardiff University
摘要：This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding key psychological barriers to implementing sustainable development in procurement process by local government and health care authorities. This task is an important one as a comprehension of psychological barriers is a prerequisite for understanding how individuals engage with the often more visible technical, budgetary or regulatory barriers in sustainable procurement. The article highlights how progress towards sustainable procur...
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作者：Baekgaard, Martin
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：The effects of different organizational structures are often assumed, expected or promised but seldom well documented through systematic studies (Christensen et al. 2007, p. 144). Using evidence from a natural experiment including organizational data from 65 Danish municipalities and survey responses from 1014 politicians and 403 administrators, the article analyses whether and how two different organizational leadership models affect the interaction between politicians and administrators. The...
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作者：Fotaki, Marianna
作者单位：University of Manchester
摘要：The causes and effects of marketization of public services have been analysed extensively in the literature, but there is relatively little research on how those policies impact on the development of new forms of governance, and the role of users in these new arrangements. This study reviews examples of competition, freedom of choice and personalized care in health and social services in England and Sweden, in order to examine the type of relationships emerging between the user/consumer vis-a-...
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作者：Galaz, Victor; Moberg, Fredrik; Olsson, Eva-Karin; Paglia, Eric; Parker, Charles
作者单位：Stockholm University; Uppsala University
摘要：While some of the future impacts of global environmental change such as some aspects of climate change can be projected and prepared for in advance, other effects are likely to surface as surprises - that is situations in which the behaviour in a system, or across systems, differs qualitatively from expectations. Here we analyse a set of institutional and political leadership challenges posed by 'cascading' ecological crises: abrupt ecological changes that propagate into societal crises that m...
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作者：Ritz, Adrian
作者单位：University of Bern
摘要：This article presents improvements for the dimension of 'Attraction to Public Policy-making' within the Public Service Motivation measurement scale. The literature concerning the theory behind this and a large number of empirical studies point out the shortcomings of this dimension with regard to both the contents and the methodology employed. This article deals in depth with the aspect of 'Attraction to Public Policy-making' and, in contrast to the work carried out to date, tackles the open q...
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作者：Andrews, Rhys; Boyne, George
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：Corporate capacity is arguably a key determinant of the success or failure of public sector organizations. However, while there is growing evidence on the extent of corporate capacity, few researchers have systematically examined whether it is linked to public service performance. Does a larger corporate centre lead to better or worse performance for the organization as a whole? To answer this question we apply seemingly unrelated regression to measures of effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and...
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作者：Bejerot, Eva; Hasselbladh, Hans
作者单位：Stockholm University; Orebro University
摘要：In the context of the recent transformation of control in Swedish health care, the changing role of quality registers are analysed as a vivid example of how professional groups become involved in new modes of regulating professional work. Based on a critical appraisal of the main currents in the research on NPM, it is argued that understanding the productive side of power is an underexploited theme. The main part of the article is devoted to a detailed analysis of how a seemingly insignificant...
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作者：Andersen, Lotte Bogh; Jakobsen, Mads
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：In terms of clinical procedures (to take the example used in this article, hip operations), both public and private organizations provide highly professionalized services. For this service type, our knowledge about ownership differences is sparse. To begin to fill this gap, we investigate how the ownership of hip clinics affects professional behaviour, treatment quality and patient satisfaction. The comparison of private and public hip clinics is based on data from the Danish Hip Arthroplasty ...
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作者：Currie, Graeme; Grubnic, Suzana; Hodges, Ron
作者单位：University of Warwick; University of Nottingham; University of Sheffield
摘要：In this article, the authors examine the implementation of policy aimed to promote the role of organizational networks and distributed leadership in the establishment and consolidation of public service reform. In theory, leadership and networks should complement each other, with the less hierarchical logic of the network allowing leadership of change, distributed among network members, rather than led from a single organizational apex, to flourish. In practice, as a consequence of inherent bu...
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作者：Spanou, Calliope; Sotiropoulos, Dimitri A.
作者单位：National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
摘要：In Greece, two distinct reform paths led to institutional building and economic managerial types of reform. These two reforms, with the exception of the period 1996-2004, when both institutional and economic reforms were attempted, did not attract the same degree of attention. Institutional reforms were more successful than attempts at managerial reforms; reform implementation on the other hand varies. Economic and managerial reforms can be observed with regard to economic competition, the ope...
