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作者：Johanson, Jan-Erik
作者单位：University of Helsinki
摘要：The main contribution of this study is the identification of three modes of strategy for public agencies based on strategic thought in a corporate environment. Strategic design, internal strategic scanning, and strategic governance embody three distinct modes of strategy relevant in the public sector. Programming actions, combining capabilities, and formation of networks capture the essence of these strategic orientations. By offering an organization-based view of public sector strategy, this ...
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作者：Rhodes, R. A. W.; Wanna, John
作者单位：University of Tasmania; Australian National University
摘要：We challenge the usefulness of the 'public value' approach in Westminster systems with their dominant hierarchies of control, strong roles for ministers, and tight authorizing regimes underpinned by disciplined two-party systems. We identify two key confusions: about public value as theory, and in defining who are 'public managers'. We identify five linked core assumptions in public value: the benign view of large-scale organizations; the primacy of management; the relevance of private sector ...
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作者：Durose, Catherine
摘要：One of the aims of this special issue is to 'decentre' a key facet of governance, namely networks. This article considers in particular the concept 'networked community governance', a key part of New Labour's reforms in local governance and, in particular, around neighbourhood-based working. This article draws on interpretive methods and analysis to explore the everyday work of frontline workers in contemporary local governance through their own stories. The article is based on empirical work ...
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作者：Ferlie, Ewan; Dopson, Sue; Fitzgerald, Louise; Locock, Louise
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; University of Oxford; University of Manchester
摘要：Health systems internationally have developed policies to support evidence-based health care (EBHC) for over a decade. As this article shows, the time is ripe to review current policy frameworks in an evidence-based manner. We summarize key themes deriving from qualitative research on the UK EBHC implementation and draw out implications for policy renewal. Our diagnosis is different from current UK NHS (National Health Service) policy since we stress local capacity building rather than top-dow...
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作者：Gains, Francesca
作者单位：University of Manchester
摘要：The worlds of local bureaucrats are under researched and under theorized compared with those of civil servants in core executives. Yet local bureaucratic elites, sitting as they do between central states and localities, are key actors in governance networks. In England, the role and responsibilities of local bureaucratic elites has been transformed since the days of professionalized officers heading departmental structures reporting to committees, firstly by NPM and politicization in the 1980s...
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作者：Kenis, Patrick; Provan, Keith G.
作者单位：Tilburg University; Tilburg University; University of Arizona
摘要：This article offers insights into the complexity of assessing the performance of public networks. We have identified three so-called exogenous factors: form of the network, type of inception-whether the network was initially formed as voluntary or mandated-and developmental stage of the network. We argue that where a network stands on each of these factors will determine the appropriateness of specific criteria for assessing the performance of the network.
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作者：Kooiman, Jan; Jentoft, Svein
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; UiT The Arctic University of Tromso
摘要：Meta-governance - or governance of governance - is a concept that raises questions regarding how values, norms and principles underpin governance systems and governing approaches. Values, norms and principles pertain both to substantive governance issues, for instance, related to sustainable resource use, and to governance system issues in themselves, for instance, regarding their institutional design. This article deals primarily with the latter. Thus the interactive perspective serves as bas...
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作者：Connolly, Michael
作者单位：University of South Wales
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作者：Foley, Paul; Alfonso, Ximena
作者单位：De Montfort University
摘要：Government policy-making emphasis worldwide is moving increasingly to how ICT can be used to achieve efficiency savings (Gershon 2004) or to transform activities (Cabinet Office; Transformational Government 2005). The role of ICT in achieving efficiency benefits or supporting transformational change is almost universally accepted by policy-makers, despite the fact that little robust evidence exists. eGovernment evaluation methodologies are reviewed and evidence is provided in this paper to dem...
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作者：Morrell, Kevin
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：The paper examines the control of power, using an account of the public good developed from Aristotle. It identifies three different perspectives on the relationship between governance (the control of power) and the public good: a 'cybernetic' perspective, an 'axiological' perspective, and a perspective of 'critique'. This framework offers a way to scrutinize the exercise of power, and to evaluate the linkages between a political administration and its citizenry. To evaluate an administration'...
