Have generic management texts and associated knowledges now extensively diffused into public services organizations? If so, why? Our empirical study of English healthcare organizations detects an extensive presence of such texts. We argue that their ready diffusion relates to two macro-level...

A growing public management literature has debated whether strategic management models originally developed for private firms are also relevant to contemporary public agencies. Thus far, it has been easier to apply strategic management models centred on competitive advantage in jurisdictions in...

Leadership development and its effectiveness has not been explored in depth empirically, especially across university settings. It is therefore timely that the Leadership Foundation has sought to invest in exploring what is known in the area of the impact of leadership development in higher...

The central purpose of this paper is to review higher education policy documents of the UKgovernment. For the analysis of recent and changing patterns of HE steering mechanisms, wewill first refer to the salient White Paper "Higher Education: a New Framework" publishedin 1991. However, the main...

In this article, we discuss temporal work and temporal politics situated between groups with different temporal orientations, arguing that attention needs to be paid to covert and unarticulated silent politics of temporal work. Drawing on a case study of a management consultancy project to...