Public ownership / nationalization

Offering much more than a purely theoretical or retrospective view of public management, this exciting text is an invaluable new addition to the field of public management.

European cities increasingly face problems caused by transport and traffic.

Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis.

Since the early 1990s, public sector organisations have been overwhelmed with what has come to be termed New Public Management (NPM) methods.

This book provides a unique insight into contemporary curation and management in an innovative London-based gallery.

Data integrity is a critical aspect to the design, implementation, and usage of any system which stores, processes, or retrieves data.

How can a smartwatch help patients with diabetes manage their disease?

This book builds on research in translation studies of change in organizations and demonstrates the implications and application of these findings for managing innovation and change.

This book draws on the expertise of both North American and European specialists of regional economics, evaluating the impact of economic policy in certain regions and considering alternative policies to foster regional economic development and improve the employment and income of the residents of these regions.

In this book, Phelps and Parente explore the US health care system and set out the case for its reform.

Marketing Health Care Into the Twenty-First Century explores recent and anticipated changes and trends--legislative, economic, organizational, clinical, and operational--from a strategic marketing perspective.

Certain key economic decisions taken by organizations and indeed countries are often not made by economists but by businessmen, trade unionists, politicians and policy-makers.

Technology is moving at an exponential pace in this era of computational intelligence.

The impact of the global financial crisis is still being felt today and the deeply unethical behaviour of the top level leaders at those economic and financial organizations, that were at the heart of the crisis, has served to highlight the importance of integrity, and in particular the need for servant leadership, if we are to avoid another major catastrophe in the management of both commercial and non-profit organizations.

In this introductory text, the author presents the law relating to child care and the reforms introduced by the Children Act 1989, assessing its impact on child care practice and procedures.

Pharmaceuticals constitute a relatively small share of the total Health Care expenditure in most developed economies, and yet they play a critical role in the ongoing debate over how best to advance, improve, and afford Health Care.

Examining the experiences of leadership among trade unionists in a range of unions and labor movements around the world, this volume addresses perspectives of women and men from a range of identities such as race/ethnicity, sexuality, and age.

The global art market has recently been valued at close to $50bn - a rise of over 60% since the global financial crisis.

Police officers, social workers, teachers, and many other street-level bureaucrats exercise discretion in dealing with clients.

This book brings together public services policy and public services management in a novel way that is likely to resonate with academics, policy makers and practitioners engaged in the organization of public services delivery as it is from a perspective that challenges many received ideas in this field.

Lean-Led Hospital Design explains how hospitals can be built to increase patient safety and reduce wait times while eliminating waste, lowering costs, and easing some of healthcare's most persistent problems.

Help your nonprofit organization keep up with the competition!

Leading Reliable Healthcare describes 'state of the art' healthcare management systems.

Winner of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's (HIMSS) 2015 Book of the Year AwardGiven the on-going changes and challenges faced by today's health care organizations, Organizational and Process Reengineering Approaches for Health Care Transformation provides a practical, leader-led and team-based approach for reengineering o

The United States spends more than 17% of its GDP on healthcare, while other developed countries average 8.

Developing economies such as those in sub-Saharan Africa are searching for realistic economic policy prescriptions.

Successful change in the public sector can be supported or hindered by political and administrative leadership, individual and group motivation, and the public's perception of the effectiveness of public officials and government structures.

This book intends to theoretically conceptualize and empirically investigate upcoming and established practices of community-based initiatives in various countries in which both citizens and governments join efforts and capacities to solve wicked issues.

Mastery of quality health care and patient safety begins as soon as we open the hospital doors for the first time and start acquiring practical experience.

The United States is facing a worsening epidemic of physician burnout with unprecedented numbers of them leaving the workforce and practice of clinical medicine across all career stages.

This book provides panoramic overviews of critical human service organizational and management practice challenges, as well as new and needed research frontiers.

Comprehensive in scope, this totally revamped edition of a bestseller is the ideal desk reference for anyone tasked with hazard control and safety management in the healthcare industry.

How can greater understanding of social responsibility within a local context empower companies, local communities and governments?

In 2019, a National Health Service Trust in England lost 11 members of current and former staff members to suspected suicide.

Thematic examination of monotheistic religions The second edition of Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions, compares Judaism, Christianity, and Islam using seven common themes which are equally relevant to each tradition.

Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis.

This book provides expert guidance on using feedback as a performance improvement tool.

Due to the countless variables that affect revenue and cost, the hospital reimbursement process is by far the most complex of any industry.

In addition to traditional management tools, government administrators require a fundamental understanding of the tools available to address the ever-changing context of government communications.

Despite the significant importance of the non-profit Sector, there is a relative limitation of possible modelling related to the management of the Non-Profit Institutions (NPIs).

Vision and Value in Health Information offers a significant challenge: to find a place for health information in the modernization of health services in the UK.

Leadership has never been more important to the cultural industries.

A critical and often overlooked aspect of preventing medical device recalls is the ability to implement systems thinking.

Is it your objective to bring about positive change for your business or organisation by influencing the policy and regulatory environment in which you operate?

Written by scholars who have been at the forefront of the NPG debate as well as by scholar-practitioners, this book provides lessons learned from experience on how networked, contract-based and partnership-centered approaches to government can be undertaken in ways that preserve the values at the center of the American constitutional and political system.

This title, first published in 1993, addresses two questions: can evaluation research function as a surrogate market in non-profit organisations to measure, value, and assess the goods and services they provide?

Ambient assisted living (AAL) utilizes information and communication technology to empower individuals to maintain an active and independent lifestyle for as long as possible.