1. Introduction and rationale -- 2. Professional dominance theory restated -- 3. The shock of the new public management : UK health care organizations transformed? -- 4. Network governance reforms : a post-NPM-reform narrative? -- 5. Governmentality and health care organizations -- 6....

The Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current issues and debates in the field of health care management. It contains over twenty chapters from well known and eminent academic authors internationally, selected for their expertise and asked to provide a broad and critical overview of...

The public sector continues to play a strategic role across the world and in the last thirty years there have been major shifts in approaches to its management. This text identifies the trends in public management and the effects these have had, as well as providing a broad overview to each topic.

Introduction : our core argument and overview -- Schools of strategic management and their implications for contemporary public services organizations : Part 1 from structure to culture -- Further proliferation of schools of strategic management : Part II the 1980s onwards -- Strategy as process...