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作者：van der Wal, Zeger
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical contextual picture of what is truly valued most in different public and private sector organizations. Through a series of qualitative in-depth interviews (n = 38), that were a follow-up to an earlier survey study among public and private sector managers (n = 382), a number of crucial organizational values were presented to and discussed with a selection of top managers from a variety of Dutch public and private sector organizations. The decision...
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作者：Oborn, Eivor; Barrett, Michael; Exworthy, Mark
作者单位：University of London; University of Cambridge
摘要：The development of health policy is recognized as complex; however, there has been little development of the role of agency in this process. Kingdon developed the concept of policy entrepreneur (PE) within his 'windows' model. He argued inter-related 'policy streams' must coincide for important issues to become addressed. The conjoining of these streams may be aided by a policy entrepreneur. We contribute by clarifying the role of the policy entrepreneur and highlighting the translational proc...
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作者：Entwistle, Tom
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：New institutional theory suggests that radical organizational change is guided by a logic of appropriateness in which organizations change their structures and processes in response to changes in prevailing notions of how best to organize. Contingency theories suggests, by contrast, that organizations pursue a logic of consequentiality, trying to maximize performance by adjusting structures and processes in response to relatively tangible things like the demand for services and the state of te...
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作者：Ferlie, Ewan; Fitzgerald, Louise; McGivern, Gerry; Dopson, Sue; Bennett, Chris
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; University of London; King's College London; University of Manchester; University of Oxford
摘要：The last two decades have seen a shift in public services organizations from hierarchies to networks. Network forms are seen as particularly suited to handling 'wicked problems'. We make an assessment of the nature and impact of this shift. Using recent evidence from the United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS), we explore the nature and functioning of eight different public policy networks. We are also interested in whether there has been a radical transition - or not - from hierarch...
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作者：Goodwin, Mark; Grix, Jonathan
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：We reflect upon the 'governance narrative' as a means of conceptualizing recent developments in the British state. Recent public administration research has advocated a 'decentred approach' that would reject the linear narrative of a shift from hierarchical to network governance. We seek to build on 'decentring' theorists' critique of existing governance literature by offering case studies of the education and sport policy communities, arguing that the 'new' governance form is present in these...
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作者：West, Karen; Davis, Paul
作者单位：Aston University
摘要：There has been a resurgence of interest in values in recent public administration research, based on two distinct arguments. For different reasons, neither approach is likely to secure a robust normative basis for public endeavours. These reasons are assessed, using an alternative body of theory rooted in contemporary social theory that we term, 'new pragmatism'. New pragmatic ideas are deployed to critique the divorce of values from facts; the abstraction of values from concrete situations; t...
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作者：Hansen, Morten Balle
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark
摘要：The relation between leadership, the context in which it takes place and the adoption of organizational innovations associated with New Public Management (NPM) is explored in an empirical analysis of Danish local government. Two different strategies for conceptualizing NPM are contrasted: (1) treating NPM as one phenomenon; and (2) acknowledging important differences between organizational innovations associated with NPM. Management's preferences and perceptions of work relations, role in chan...
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作者：Gonzalez-Gomez, Francisco; Picazo-Tadeo, Andres J.; Guardiola, Jorge
作者单位：University of Granada; University of Valencia
摘要：Why do some local governments privatize water services, while others opt for public management? Economic literature has been unable to demonstrate that private management is more efficient than public management, so there must be other reasons that lead governments to privatize the service. But what are they? This paper presents the results of a study that analyses the factors behind the privatization of water services with data from 741 municipalities located in the South of Spain over a peri...
