Full Description
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.
Contents
1: Introduction - Exploring The Politicality of Management Knowledge in Times of Austerity
2: A Review of Literatures and Perspectives on Management Knowledge
3: The Political Economy of English Public Services Reforming and Implications for Management Knowledges in Health Care Organizations
4: English Public Management Reforming after 2010: From Big Society to Austerity
5: The Quality, Improvement, Productivity, and Prevention Programme in the English National Health Service
6: Case Study 1: Service Improvement Agencies in the English NHS: A Disappointing Impact
7: Case Study 2: Think Tanks and London's Quadruple Helix of Public and Health Policy Knowledge Production
8: Case Study 3: Management Consulting Knowledge and English Health Care Organizations
9: Case Study 4: The High Impact of Private-sector Management Knowledge in an Independent-sector Provider
10: Knowledge Leadership: Securing Organizational Change
11: Concluding Discussion - Management Knowledges, Politics and Policy and Public Services Organizations in Times of Austerity
Appendix 1: Methods and Data Sources
Appendix 2: Case Study Summaries
