The New Managerialism and Public Service Professionals is a fresh and insightful analysis of the changes that have taken place in the UK public sector over the past twenty years. Unlike many other recent accounts it is not assumed that these policy goals were always implemented or that new approaches to the management of services are necessarily effective. Drawing on an extensive review of major published research it considers developments in three areas: the National Health Service, social services and housing. This analysis reveals marked differences in the way the professions responded to...
The New Managerialism and Public Service Professionals is a fresh and insightful analysis of the changes that have taken place in the UK public sector...
Realism has been one of the most powerful new developments in philosophy and the social sciences and is now making an increasing impact in business and management studies. This is the first book-length treatment of critical realism in business and management.
It pulls together a wide range of material which is all explicitly or implicitly rooted in philosophical realism, and combines theoretical writing with substantive contributions addressing issues such as the nature of the firm and the labour process which together demonstrates that realism is a powerful alternative to...
Realism has been one of the most powerful new developments in philosophy and the social sciences and is now making an increasing impact in business...
Realism has been one of the most powerful new developments in philosophy and the social sciences. As this volume states, it is also having an increasing impact in management and business studies. Pulling together a wide range of material which is all explicitly or implicitly rooted in philosophical realism, this volume combines theoretical papers with contributions addressing such issues as the nature of the firm and the labour process. Together they demonstrate that realism is a powerful alternative to postmodernism and positivism.
Realism has been one of the most powerful new developments in philosophy and the social sciences. As this volume states, it is also having an increasi...
Critical realism has become increasingly important in the way organization and management is studied. This innovative book argues for an alternative to the prevailing ontology, and shows how positivism and its empirical realist ontology can be abandoned without having to accept strong social constructionism. Critical Realist Applications in Organisation and Management Studies applies critical realism in four ways. First, in the removal of meta-theoretical obstacles that hinder the development of fruitful theoretical and empirical work. Second and third, as a meta-theoretical...
Critical realism has become increasingly important in the way organization and management is studied. This innovative book argues for an alternativ...
Critical realism has become increasingly important in the way organization and management is being studied. This book argues for an alternative to the prevailing ontology and shows how positivism and its empirical realist ontology can be abandoned without having to accept strong (anti-realist) social constructionism. This book applies critical realism in four ways. First, in the removal of meta-theoretical obstacles that hinder the development of fruitful theoretical and empirical work. Second and third, as a meta-theoretical tool with which to develop appropriate methodological and...
Critical realism has become increasingly important in the way organization and management is being studied. This book argues for an alternative to the...
This book explores recent theoretical and empirical advances in the understanding of how professional occupations are organized. Focusing in particular on the differences between established and emerging forms of expert work, the authors provide unique theoretical perspectives on this rapidly developing field.
This book explores recent theoretical and empirical advances in the understanding of how professional occupations are organized. Focusing in particula...
