Ferlie, Ewan <br/><br/>
Making wicked problems governable?:   the case of managed networks in health care / 
Ewan Ferlie, Louise Fitzgerald, Gerry McGivern, Sue Dopson and Chris Bennett. 
 - First edition 
 - Oxford:  Oxford University Press,  2013. 
 - xii, 286 pages;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes appendix, bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction and overview -- Reforming UK health care organizations - from new public management to network governance? -- A governmentality-based perspective on UK health care organization -- Genetics translation network: examplars of evidence-based governmentality? -- Sexual health networks: working with problematic human behaviours -- Networks for older people's care: a really wicked problem -- The limited role of information and communication technologies in managed networks -- Leadership in health care networks: clinical-managerial hybrid teams and evidence-based identity work -- Inter-organizational learning in the networks: a disappointing pattern -- Governmentality and health care networks -- New labour and Uk health care: managed networks, wicked problems, and post-NPM organizing -- Concluding discussion-overall contribution and forward look 
<br/><br/> "The book 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." - From the Book. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199603015 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Institutional Fund 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain. National Health Service.<br/>Medical policy--History--Great Britain--20th century.<br/>Interorganizational relations--Great Britain.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain--Politics and government--1997-2007.