<title>Abstract</title> This paper introduces a selection of papers on contemporary developments in public sector management which come from a research conference held in 2004. This paper starts by introducing the New Public Management (NPM) and governance paradigms as alternative high level approaches. Such...

<title>Abstract</title> In the critical arena of public management and policy debates several schools currently try to make sense of governance structures and processes, although one has so far had the strongest impact in terms of academic and policy influence in particular in the United Kingdom: network...

This article considers the theoretical and management implications of the recent reorganization of UK cancer services on network lines in which the intermediate tier of the Regional Office (RO) has played an important implementation role. Empirical evidence drawn from the first stage of a...