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作者：Wilson, T
作者单位：Liverpool John Moores University; University of Liverpool
摘要：Between 1979 and 1997, successive Conservative governments sought to reduce the scale of public sector activity and to introduce competition in the provision of public sector services. A central feature of this policy was the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering (CCT). CCT was initially confined to blue collar services but, by means of the Local Government Act 1992, it was extended to white collar, professional services, including financial services. However, though potentially ext...
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作者：Greer, A; Hoggett, P
作者单位：University of West England
摘要：Local Public Spending Bodies (LPSBs) occupy an important position in the contemporary structures of governance in the UK. As exemplars of many of the diverse characteristics of the New Public Management, LPSBs inhabit the fuzzy space between the public and private spheres, both in terms of organizational structure and service delivery. One finding from recent research into the internal governance of three kinds of LPSBs - Further Education Colleges, Housing Associations and Training and Enterp...
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作者：Burth, HP; Görlitz, A
作者单位：University of Stuttgart
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作者：Baggott, R
作者单位：De Montfort University
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作者：Wistrich, E
作者单位：Middlesex University
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作者：Munro, C
作者单位：University of Edinburgh
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作者：Wistrich, E
作者单位：Middlesex University
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作者：Lowndes, V; Skelcher, C
作者单位：De Montfort University; University of Birmingham
摘要：Multi-organizational partnerships are now an important means of governing and managing public programmes. They typically involve business, community and not-for-profit agencies alongside government bodies. Partnerships are frequently contrasted with competitive markets and bureaucratic hierarchies. A more complex reality is revealed once partnerships as an organizational form are distinguished from networks as a mode of social co-ordination or governance. Data from studies of UK urban regenera...
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作者：Kitchener, M
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：Quasi-market transformation (QMT) refers to the process by which the dominant organizational form in a field is replaced, following the introduction of a quasi-market. In this article, analysis of comparative case-study data reveals that, until the early 1990s, a common interpretive scheme, or set of values and norms, underpinned a set of structures and systems in many UK hospitals. These similarities of form are represented as the directly managed (DM) hospital archetype. When change initiati...
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作者：Gibson, J
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：The focus of attention in this article is on the major shift in Education Standard Spending Assessments, and with it central grants, in favour of Inner London which first took place in 1990, and has persisted since then. This coincided both with the abolition of the Inner London Education Authority and the transfer of education responsibilities to the Inner London Boroughs, and the introduction of the poll tax. The objective of this article is to test whether this shift in favour of Inner Lond...
