Making wicked problems governable? : the case of managed networks in health care / by Ewan Ferlie [and others].

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'Making Wicked Problems Governable?' analyses the developments of inter-organizational networks in the UK National Health Service during the New Labour period, combining empirical case studies from various policy arenas (clinical genetics, cancer networks, sexual health networks and long term care) with a theoretically informed analysis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of Acronyms""; ""1. Introduction and overview""; ""2. �Reforming� UK health care organizations�from New Public Management to network governance?""; ""3. A governmentality-based perspective on UK health care organizations""; ""4. Genetics Translation Networks: The continuing autonomy of academic science""; ""5. Managed Cancer Networks: Exemplars of evidence-based governmentality?""; ""6. Sexual Health Networks: Working with problematic human behaviours""; ""7. Networks for Older People�s Care: A really wicked problem""

""8. The limited role of Information and Communication Technologies in managed networks""""9. Leadership in health care networks: Clinical-managerial hybrid teams and evidence-based identity work""; ""10. Inter-organizational learning in the networks: A disappointing pattern""; ""11. Governmentality and health care networks""; ""12. New Labour and UK health care: Managed networks, wicked problems, and post-NPM organizing""; ""13. Concluding discussion�overall contribution and forward look""; ""Appendix 1. Study design and methods""

Appendix 2. Developing a performance assessment frameworkBibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

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