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作者：Currie, Graeme; Waring, Justin; Finn, Rachael
作者单位：University of Nottingham; University of Nottingham; University of Nottingham
摘要：This article assesses the contribution of management of knowledge across organizational and professional boundaries towards improved public services. We empirically investigate the potential for knowledge sharing within the context of the NHS modernization agenda, taking as our focus the current 'patient safety' policy agenda. Specifically, we evaluate the introduction of a knowledge management system, namely the National Reporting and Learning System (NRSL) and its impact in the area of opera...
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作者：Kooiman, Jan
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
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作者：Reeves, Eoin
作者单位：University of Limerick
摘要：This paper explores the practice of contracting in public private partnerships (PPP). Focusing on the first Irish PPP to provide secondary schools, it draws on perspectives from transaction cost economics and socio-legal theory. It finds that the ex ante contractual setting was undermined by pushing forward with the PPP before conducting an adequate level of project appraisal. It explores the experiences of key stakeholders in the ex post contracting stage and concludes that the conduct of con...
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作者：Lawler, John
作者单位：University of Bradford
摘要：This is a conceptual paper whose aim is to relate the development of 'individualization' (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim 2002) to organizational leadership. It does this by examining individualization alongside the implicit assumption on which orthodox approaches to leadership are founded, namely that leadership is an individualized phenomenon. Despite the expanding literature on these topics, particularly that on leadership, these concepts have not been examined in relation to one another. This pape...
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作者：Hajer, Maarten; Uitermark, Justus
作者单位：University of Amsterdam
摘要：In November 2004, the assassination of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam by an Islamic extremist shocked The Netherlands. Critics of multiculturalism quickly linked the murder to the perceived failure of 'soft' integration policies and questioned the authority and legitimacy of Amsterdam's political leadership. This article studies the response of political leaders to those challenges from a performative perspective. Analysing governance as performance illuminates the importance of acti...
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作者：Van Der Wal, Zeger; De Graaf, Gjalt; Lasthuizen, Karin
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：In recent administrative and organizational literature much attention has been paid to values that guide organizational and managerial behaviour in the public and private domain. Comparative empirical research efforts, however, are sparse. This article reports the results of a comparative empirical survey of 382 managers from a variety of public and private sector organizations in The Netherlands. Contrary to much recent literature that presupposes the intermixing or convergence of value syste...
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作者：Goldsmith, Mike
作者单位：University of Salford
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作者：Gualmini, Elisabetta
作者单位：University of Bologna
摘要：In much of the international public administration literature, New Public Management (NPM) already appears to be bogged down in a quagmire of critical revisions and assessments. Although some criticisms are well founded, there can be no doubt that NPM represents a trend which has considerably affected public-sector decision-making worldwide. This article takes the examples of the Southern European bureaucracies, where NPM-inspired reforms were introduced later than in the English-speaking worl...
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作者：Bach, Stephen; Givan, Rebecca Kolins
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; Cornell University
摘要：It is a curious feature of the debate about the UK Labour government's modernization agenda that the consequences for trade unions have been almost wholly neglected. Focusing on a case study of UNISON, the public service trade union that is dominant in local government and health, this paper argues that UNISON has emulated key aspects of the modernization agenda, adopting a dual strategy to union renewal. It has attempted to rebuild workplace organization, but has placed strong emphasis on man...
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作者：Wallace, Mike; Schneller, Eugene
作者单位：Cardiff University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：The metaphor of 'orchestration' is applied to an emergent change whereby developing different versions of a resource to solve local problems with managing hospitalized patient care in the USA became conceived as a nationwide innovation. A pluralistic framework incorporates Abbott's conception of a system of professions, a cultural and political perspective on interaction and the notion of 'orchestration' which is distinguished from leadership and management. Small-scale research in diverse set...
