Includes appendix, bibliographical references and index. Ferlie, E., Fitzgerald, L., McGivern, G., Dopson, S., & Bennett, C. (2013). Making wicked problems governable?: the case of managed networks in health care (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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

"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.