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作者：De Boer, Harry F.; Enders, Juergen; Leisyte, Liudvika
作者单位：University of Twente
摘要：During the past few decades traditional state-centred governing arrangements have been critiqued and replaced by alternative modes of governance. Higher education is one of the public sectors where such shifts in governance have been seen. As a consequence of the reshuffling of authority and responsibilities across the different levels in Dutch higher education, universities as organizations have become important foci of attention in the system's coordination. The main question addressed in th...
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作者：Dent, Mike; Van Gestel, Nicolette; Teelken, Christine
作者单位：Staffordshire University; Radboud University Nijmegen
摘要：This symposium grew out of the sub-theme, 'New Modes of Governance in Public Sector Organizations', of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference held in Ljubljana in July 2004. Our aim was to provide a forum to discuss the policy and practice and the space between in public sector management and governance within Europe.
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作者：Blomgren, Maria
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：This paper provides an account of the rising clamour for transparency in the Swedish healthcare field. Previous research into accounting, auditing and classification has shown that such visualizing technologies potentially have the capacity to create new objects and ideals in a field (Miller 1994; Power 1997; Bowker and Star 1999). It is thus reasonable to believe that the simultaneous use of various visualizing technologies in a field might transform it. This paper provides an analysis of the...
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作者：Laffan, Brigid; O'Mahony, Jane
作者单位：University College Dublin; University of Kent
摘要：This article analyses the management of European Union (EU) business by the Irish core executive. More specifically, it investigates the demands placed by EU membership on the Irish system of public administration and how the system has responded to these demands. Employing an institutionalist analytical framework, the article maps the formal and informal organizational and procedural devices or structures used to manage EU affairs in Ireland, as well as dissecting the key relationships that g...
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作者：Ackroyd, Stephen; Kirkpatrick, Ian; Walker, Richard M.
作者单位：Lancaster University; University of Leeds; University of Hong Kong; Cardiff University
摘要：It is often assumed in the literature on public management reforms that radical changes in values, work and organization have occurred or are under way. In this paper our aim is to raise questions about this account. Focusing on three services in the UK, each dominated by organized professions - health care, housing, and social services - significant variations in the effectiveness of reforms are noted. The available research also suggests that these outcomes have been inversely proportional t...
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作者：Bache, Ian
作者单位：University of Sheffield
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作者：Schedler, Kuno
作者单位：University of St Gallen
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作者：Nylen, Ulrica
作者单位：Umea University
摘要：Interagency collaboration in human services production, it has been claimed, contributes to improved quality and/or reduced costs, but previous research on effectiveness from collaboration has failed to recognize that collaboration could be arranged in a multitude of ways. This paper investigates the effectiveness consequences of alternative collaboration arrangements. From a literature review, the degree of formalization and intensity, respectively, stand out as major aspects of collaboration...
