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作者：Coulson, Andrew
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：The Private Finance Initiative (PFI), introduced to Britain in 1992, has become a major means of procuring public sector infrastructure. It involves long-term contracts whereby private sector suppliers construct and own capital assets and provide services for which they are paid on the basis of availability or use. This paper focuses on the early stages of a PFI procurement, the decision to use the PFI rather than any other form of procurement. In 2004 and 2006, the UK Treasury issued new Guid...
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作者：Pearce, Graham; Mawson, John; Ayres, Sarah
作者单位：Aston University; University of Warwick; University of Bristol
摘要：Debates about the appropriate territorial scales of government to meet the challenges of economic, political and social change have gained momentum in Western Europe in recent years. In the UK, political mobilization has transformed constitutional arrangements in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. By contrast, in the English regions, a less radical approach has been adopted, but the outcome has been a strengthening of the institutions of regional governance. A key feature has been the enhan...
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作者：Askim, Jostein; Hanssen, Gro Sandkjaer
作者单位：University of Oslo
摘要：The article expands citizen participation research by tackling participation from the viewpoint of elected officials - the recipients of citizen input. The article studies the role citizen input plays in elected officials' decision making. Citizen input is defined as information elected officials obtain through direct contact with citizens and representatives of local associations. Using survey data from Norwegian local government, the article assesses how much citizen input councillors receiv...
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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：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：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：Philippidou, Sophia; Karageorgiou, Maria; Tarantilis, Christos; Soderquist, Eric; Prastacos, Gregory
作者单位：Athens University of Economics & Business; Athens University of Economics & Business
摘要：Propelled by the driving forces of globalization and technology explosion, public institutions face the challenge of rapid and discontinuous change. Such change has come to undermine the relevance of traditional approaches on how an institution should be managed. We analyse a technology-driven change effort, the implementation of an Integrated Information System (IIS), that unfolds within the boundaries of the institutional context of the Hellenic Parliament. The purpose of our research, which...
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作者：Stevens, Anne
作者单位：Aston University
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作者：Hoque, Kim; Kirkpatrick, Ian
作者单位：University of Nottingham; University of Leeds
摘要：In recent times, the UK has witnessed a steady growth in the use of agency workers to fill core professional roles in public sector organizations. Similar trends have been noted elsewhere, particularly in Australia and the US. In this paper our objective is to explore some of the consequences of this growth, drawing on case study research on social services. We point to a number of problems associated with the management of agency workers and to the potentially negative consequences for the qu...
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作者：Bache, Ian; Catney, Philip
作者单位：University of Sheffield; Keele University
摘要：This article considers the role of ideas in New Labour's approach to the governance of urban regeneration and characterizes this approach as 'embryonic associationalism'. This approach contrasts with the economic rationalism of previous Conservative governments and leads to a more determined effort to empower local community groups within the policy process. We analyse the effects of this shift in approach in practice through a comparative case study of changing patterns of governance in diffe...
