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作者:Erridge, A; Greer, J
作者单位:Ulster University
摘要:As one means of dealing with an increasingly interdependent or shared power 'noone in charge' world (Bryson and Crosby 1992) and adapting the public sector to the demands of the global economy, successive administrations in the UK have aimed to develop a more strategic approach to public procurement by emphasizing inter-departmental co-ordination and establishing long-term partnership relations with suppliers. This has proved to be a difficult task, however, as the operating framework and cult...
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作者:Greer, A
作者单位:University of West England
摘要:This paper takes a comparative case-study approach, located within the literature on policy networks, to organic agriculture policy in the United Kingdom and Ireland since the late 1980s. An examination of policy development for the organic sector focuses primarily on regulatory arrangements. The core of the analysis applies some prominent themes in the policy network literature to the organic sector: the debate about sectoral and sub-sectoral networks, the relationship between networks, conte...
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作者:Rashman, L; Hartley, J
作者单位:University of Warwick
摘要:This paper examines the Beacon Council Scheme as a distinct policy element within the UK government's wide-ranging local government modernization agenda. The aim of the Beacon scheme is two-fold. First, reward for high performing councils and second, the achievement of substantial change by sharing 'best practice' from identified centres of excellence. The scheme presupposes an implicit theory of organizational change through learning. The Beacon Council Scheme is based on the assumption that ...
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作者:Veenswijk, MB; Hakvoort, JLM
作者单位:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要:The central question of this article is which changes in cultural orientation arise during institutional transformation within public-private hybrid organizations. The article presents a theoretical review, using the Dutch interaction model, in which various models of institutional transformation and cultural change are brought up. We present two case studies which are part of an inter-university study of hybridization and processes of privatization.