The contestation of archetypes: negotiating scripts in a UK hospital trust board
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The article examines the new organizational structure of the United Kingdom's National Health Service using five analytical scripts: critiquing, challenging, defending, cautioning and mediating. The article also identifies three interpretive schemes: executive pragmatism, medical professionalism, and ideological-new public management. It is posited that the new structure involves a high level of contestation.
Publication Name: Journal of Management Studies
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0022-2380
Year: 2003
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Coordination Networks Within and Across Organizations: A Multi-level Framework
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Two approaches are used to develop a framework for analyzing inter- and intra-organization coordination: the organization network perspective and the organization design perspective. These are applied to a hospital's efforts to coordinate on-site and outsourced services.
Publication Name: Journal of Management Studies
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0022-2380
Year: 2004
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Human resources as strategic assets: an evolutionary resource-based theory
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The article examines strategic human resources from an evolutionary standpoint, positing that valuable assets result more from social interaction and tacit learning rather than senior management policy.
Publication Name: Journal of Management Studies
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0022-2380
Year: 1996
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