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This paper argues that the means by which the profession of medicine has to legitimise itself in the context of state‐provided health services is changing in a way that may be summarised in Weberian terms as a shift from substantive to formal rationality. The traditional model for such...
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Purpose – An analysis of the way the bureaucratic management system responded to the tsunami disaster of December 26, 2004 is used as an example to highlight the severe shortcomings of the bureaucratic model as a paradigm for responding to situations in which the magnitude of the system's task...
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to follow up on the original paper “Bureaucracy meet catastrophe: analysis of the Tsunami disaster relief efforts and …
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, Street‐Level Bureaucracy , that street‐level bureaucrats devise their own rules and procedures to deal with the dilemmas of … dilemmas of street‐level bureaucracy. Research limitations/implications – The work has focussed on the UK and in particular on …‐making” to cope with dilemmas have been outweighed by increased levels of bureaucracy and the “de‐skilling” of professionals …
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claim that bureaucracy has been replaced by post‐bureaucracy as a result of these changes. Design/methodology/approach – The … existence of post‐bureaucracy, per se , the paper argues that there has been a process of extending bureaucracy that cuts across … public and non‐public boundaries rather than the development of post‐bureaucracy per se . Findings – In examining the claims …
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, delay achievement of more culturally accommodating reform of the bureaucracy acceptable to all the country's principal …
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This paper analyzes how public administration may improve the service it offers to citizens through a suitable organizational culture; for this purpose, it starts by studying the specific features of the culture of public administration. In this respect, it analyzes the existing taxonomies in...
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The widespread adoption and implementation of costing systems in the UK National Health Service (NHS) has been an important part of the response to the structural changes brought about in the health sector over the last 20 years. One key feature of costing systems in this context is to provide a...
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two dominant discourses on post‐bureaucracy – the managerial discourse and the critical management discourse. Whereas the … one pictures post‐bureaucracy as an emancipating regime based on the personalities and social networks of individuals, the … instrumental schemes. Both discourses are criticized for being grounded in a view of post‐bureaucracy as a “total” organization. An …
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Purpose – To develop a model in which alternative patterns of management control are confronted with situational and institutional features in the context of transactional relationships. The model could be of use to managers in making rational decisions regarding the boundaries of the...
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