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Turnaround of the Indian Railways: a public ownership saga
Gupta, Desh; Sathye, Milind - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 1, pp. 86-102
actions, but also of favourable environmental conditions. This study reveals that both managerial leadership and good luck …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592825
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Turnaround of the Indian Railways: a public ownership saga
Gupta, Desh; Sathye, Milind - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 1, pp. 86-102
actions, but also of favourable environmental conditions. This study reveals that both managerial leadership and good luck …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564032
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Evidence-based programs in children's services: A critical appraisal
Axford, Nick; Morpeth, Louise - In: Children and Youth Services Review 35 (2013) 2, pp. 268-277
Evidence-based programs (EBPs) are increasingly being implemented in children's services agencies in developed countries. However, this trend is meeting resistance from some researchers, policy makers and practitioners. In this article we appraise the main critiques, focusing on scientific,...
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Influences on leadership behaviour: a binomial logit model
Oshagbemi, Titus; Ocholi, Samuel A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) February, pp. 102-115
certain ways and not in other ways. Using a range of job characteristics such as the different leadership styles utilised in …, this research focuses on a range of possible influences on leadership behaviours. Design/methodology/approach – To … investigate the influences on leadership behaviour, a questionnaire was constructed with leadership behaviour, leadership style …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742445
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Influences on leadership behaviour: a binomial logit model
Oshagbemi, Titus; Ocholi, Samuel A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) February, pp. 102-115
certain ways and not in other ways. Using a range of job characteristics such as the different leadership styles utilised in …, this research focuses on a range of possible influences on leadership behaviours. Design/methodology/approach – To … investigate the influences on leadership behaviour, a questionnaire was constructed with leadership behaviour, leadership style …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685881
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The outsourcing of social care in Britain: what does it mean for voluntary sector workers?
Cunningham, Ian; James, Philip - In: Work, Employment & Society 23 (2009) 2, pp. 363-375
While recent decades have witnessed a growth in the outsourcing of public services in Britain, the post-1997 UK Labour governments have sought to put in place mechanisms aimed at encouraging long-term collaborative contracting relationships marked by less reliance on cost-based competition. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010890493
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Inter-Organizational Accountability and Budget Cut-Backs
Bracci, Enrico - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2013
Accountability arrangements in networks present special concerns because of the potential for accountability to get "lost in the cracks of horizontal and hybrid governance" (Romzek et al 2012:443). Networks involve numerous cooperating agencies and/or subcontractors with different goals,...
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Challenges of performance measurement and management in public healthcare services
Saunila, Minna; Ukko, Juhani; Rusila, Pasi; Rantanen, Hannu - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 8 (2012) 2, pp. 181-195
This paper aims to identify the specific problems that healthcare organisations face when designing performance measurement and management. The research has been carried out using the qualitative research approach. The findings of the study are based on ten interviews with 22 key persons working...
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Efficiency in the provision of social care for older people. A three-stage Data Envelopment Analysis using self-reported quality of life
Iparraguirre, José Luis; Ma, Ruosi - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 49 (2015) C, pp. 33-46
Using a three-stage data envelopment analysis approach, this paper explores efficiency in the provision of social care for older people in 148 English Councils in 2009/10. Departing from D'Amico and Fernández (2012) [31] our measure of efficiency is inscribed within the production of welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011209821
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Entrepreneurship and social and community care
Sundin, Elisabeth - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 5 (2011) April, pp. 212-222
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that not only (obviously) social enterprises but also conventional ones are based on social intentions and that these social intentions often have community dimensions. The conclusion of these findings is that conventional research, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393181