While the implementation of evidence-based medicine guidelines is well studied, there has been little investigation into the extent to which a parallel evidence-based management movement has been influential within health care organizations. This book explores the various management knowledges and associated texts apparent in English health care organizations, and considers how the local reception of these texts was influenced by the macro level political economy of public services reform evident during the period of the politics of austerity. The research outlined in this volume shows that very few evidence-based management texts are apparent within health care organizations, despite the influence of certain knowledge producers, such as national agencies, think tanks, management consultancies, and business schools in the industry. Bringing together the often disconnected academic literature on management knowledge and public policy, the volume addresses the ways in which preferred management knowledges and texts in these publicly funded settings are sensitive to the macro level political economy of public services reform, offering an empirically grounded critique of the evidence-based management movement.

The Politics of Management Knowledge in Times of Austerity

Business & Money

Ferlie, Ewan

Bennett, Chris

Fischer, Michael

McGivern, Gerry

Dopson, Sue

Ledger, Jean

Industries

Oxford University Press

Over the last thirty years, scholars of health care organizations have been searching for concepts and images to illuminate their underlying, and shifting, modes of organizing. Nowhere has this controversy been more intense than in the United Kingdom, given the long succession of top down reorganizations within the National Health Service (NHS) over the last thirty years. This book characterises the nature of key reforms - namely managed networks - introduced in the UK National Health Service during the New Labour period (1997-2010), combining rich empirical case material of such managed networks drawn from different health policy arenas (clinical genetics, cancer networks, sexual health networks, and long term care) with a theoretically informed analysis.The book makes three key contributions. Firstly, it argues that New Labour's reforms included an important network element consistent with underlying network governance ideas, specifying conditions of 'success' for these managed networks and exploring how much progress was empirically evident. Secondly, in order to conceptualise many of the complex health policy arenas studied, the book uses the concept of 'wicked problems': problematic situations with no obvious solutions, whose scope goes beyond any one agency, often with conflicting stakeholder interests, where there are major social and behavioural dimensions to be considered alongside clinical considerations. Thirdly, it makes a contribution to the expanding Foucauldian and governmentality-based literature on health care organizations, by retheorising organizational processes and policy developments which do not fit either professional dominance or NPM models from a governmentality perspective. From the empirical evidence gathered, the book argues that managed networks (as opposed to alternative governance modes of hierarchy or markets) may well be the most suitable governance mode in those many and expanding policy arenas characterised by 'wicked problems', and should be given more time to develop and reach their potential.

Making Wicked Problems Governable?: The Case of Managed Networks in Health Care

Medical Books

Fitzgerald, Louise

Administration & Medicine Economics

The book follows the '97 squadron of the Red Arrows, from the selection and training process of the new Red Arrow pilots, to the moment when the team are permitted to wear their red flying suits.

Red Arrosw: A Year in the Life : The Official Story

Cunnane, Tony

Sports & Outdoors

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Sky Warriors

Carlton Books, Limited

Behind the Scenes at Harrods presents a fascinating and often surprising perspective on a 150 year-old institution from which most people are excluded. The full-colour photographs are accompanied by an explanatory text by Colin Cameron.'

Harrods Behind the Scenes

The authors present material on processes of strategic change in the British National Health Service. In particular, the book focuses on the organizational and managerial response to HIV/AIDS, a health care crisis which became a major public health issue for the NHS in the 1980s. Empirical material is drawn from the response of a number of district health authorities to this epidemic. The authors analyse who drove forward innovation in these localities, how coalitions were formed and how energy was created for change. They also examine the role of ideology. This material should be useful reading for those working in HIV/AIDS management, whether in the health service, local authority or non-statutory sectors. It should also have relevance to managers and students of organizational theory who are interested more broadly in how organizations change.

Managing Crisis and Change in Health Care: The Organizational Response to HIV/Aids

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Open Univ Pr

This is an intermediate-level guide to building WAP applications. The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) provides the technological framework for combining mobile communications with Internet technologies. WAP opens up the Web to a vastly expanded audience, allowing new types of applications to take advantage of user location, provide time-critical information, and offer personalized content. This book details the WAP Forum, mobile devices, and what makes a good WAP application. Using real world examples, this book examines the WAP standards, focusing on those essential to building working WAP applications. It outlines the critical success factors in designing WAP applications and helps the reader select the right architecture for his or her WAP project. Complete tutorials on WML (the HTML of wireless web), WMLScript, and Push technology are combined with the many examples to make Practical Wap ideal for software developers, architects, and managers.

Practical WAP: Developing Applications for the Wireless Web (Breakthroughs in Application Development, Series Number 4)

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Cambridge University Press

In need of adventure, and inspired by the explorations of Lewis and Clark, Chris Bennett made a plan to take his small fishing boat on an historic 460-mile journey down the Cumberland River. The trip would begin in Creelsboro, Kentucky, just a few miles below Wolf Creek Dam, and take him through Nashville, Tennessee, and on past the Land Between the Lakes to the Ohio River. Says Chris, ?I wanted to seek out new life, and new civilizations; I wanted to boldly go where no electrician, or used guitar salesman, had gone before?? In June of 2007, he recruited Neal "Action" Jackson, of Jamestown, Kentucky, and loaded up his trusty Bass Tracker to set out on the adventure of a lifetime. Part travelogue, part rural history, part high-seas adventure, Rivermen of the Cumberland is funny, inspiring, and insightful.

Rivermen of the Cumberland

Lulu Press, Inc.

A husband-and-wife team put their philosophy of "We don't quit on family" into action, demonstrating how to combat isolation, build healthy relationships, and fight for (not with!) the ones you love, right where you are. When Chris and Julie Bennett and their four kids decided to move from Norman, Oklahoma, to Los Angeles, they knew they were setting out on a great adventure. They'd be leaving behind the church Chris and Julie had pastored, the comfort of their community, and the familiarity of their daily routines, but the new city promised to bring some much-needed change. Most of all, they looked forward to connecting with others in one of the most disconnected cities in the United States. What they didn't expect was how this adventure--complicated by a cancer diagnosis, a relapse, and a worldwide pandemic--would challenge their notions of what it means to care for each other well, both as a nuclear family and as part of a broader community. It turns out that becoming family is stressful, messy, exhausting--and absolutely, totally worth fighting for. In a time when so many suffer from loneliness and it feels like developing authentic relationships is impossible, Chris and Julie invite you to step into their story to discover the fundamentals that lead to healthy, thriving families and friendships. You'll discover the power of embracing vulnerability, accepting imperfection, and extending forgiveness, while finding fulfillment through enforcing boundaries and honoring and serving others. Whether you are looking to build your own community from scratch or strengthen your existing connections, Fighting for Family will inspire you to go all in on your relationships, no matter what your circumstances.

Fighting for Family: The Relentless Pursuit of Building Belonging

Self-Help

Bennett, Julie

Relationships

Harper Horizon

High above the fields of Western Germany, an F-15C of the 36th Tactical fighter Wing at Bitburg.

Bitburg: Eagle Country - Superbase 10

Science & Math

Technology

Osprey Publishing Ltd.

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