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Author: Ewan Ferlie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-03-28
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0199603014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Will Thomas
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-04
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1351592521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At a time of growing pressure on health and social care services, this book draws together contributions which highlight contemporary challenges for their management. Providing a range of contributions that draw on a Critical Management Studies perspective the book raises macro-level concerns with theory, demographics and economics on the one hand, as well as micro-level challenges of leadership, voice and engagement on the other. Rather than being an attempt to define the ‘wickedness’ of problems in this field, this book provides new insights designed to be of interest and value to researchers, students and managers. Contributions from international researchers explore four main topics: identifying contemporary challenges in health and social care; managing, leading and following; listening to silent voices in delivering change; and new methodologies for understanding care challenges. The concerns discussed in this volume are ‘wicked’ in so far as they are persistent, pernicious and beyond the curative abilities of any single organisation or profession. Such problems require collaboration but also new approaches to listening to those who suffer their effects. This book demonstrates such listening through its engagement with policy makers, leaders, followers, professions, patients, forgotten groups and silenced voices. Moreover, it considers how future research might be transformed so as to shine a more inclusive light on ‘wicked’ problems and their amelioration. This is a timely and engaging book that challenges you – the reader – to think again about how we should look at, engage with and support all those involved in health and social care.
Author: Ali Aslan Gümüsay
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2022-03-29
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1839098260
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges unpacks how diverse forms of organizing help tackle-or reinforce-grand challenges,while emphasizing the need for researchers to expand their methodological repertoire and reflect upon scholarly practices.
Author: Kay Stables
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-02-27
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9462099383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This collection engages environmental, ethical and cultural values perspectives to show how Design and Technology (D&T) Education actively contributes to the significant educational goal of attaining sustainable global futures. An international collection of authors representing all levels of education articulate how D&T research, curriculum theory, policy, and classroom practices can synergise to contribute positively to the education of children for sustainable global futures. The book offers a spectrum of theorised curriculum positions, political and policy analysis, and case studies of successful school practice. A key word in the title is that of contribution which is construed in several senses: first, of D&T as a vehicle for understanding the range of political and social values that arise with such a major educational challenge; second, of D&T as an agent of critical and practical action for students as global citizens; third, by taking global and multiple perspectives (rather than, say, Western or mono-cultural positions); and, fourth, by demonstrating D&T’s capacities for working in holistic and integrative cross-curricular ways. The authors show how students can not only learn about their potential as humans-as-designers but can also develop designerly capacities that enable them to contribute meaningfully in practical ways to their communities and to wider society, that is, as global citizens who can apply design capability in ethical ways that are respectful of peoples, cultures and environments alike."
Author: Prosun Bhattacharya
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2016-06-08
Total Pages: 730
ISBN-13: 1315629437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Congress "Arsenic in the Environment" offers an international, multi- and interdisciplinary discussion platform for research and innovation aimed towards a holistic solution to the problem posed by the environmental toxin arsenic, with considerable societal impact. The congress has focused on cutting edge and breakthrough research in physical, chemical, toxicological, medical, agricultural and other specific issues on arsenic across a broader environmental realm. The Congress "Arsenic in the Environment" was first organized in Mexico City (As2006) followed by As2008 in Valencia, Spain, As2010 in Tainan, Taiwan, As2012 in Cairns, Australia and As2014 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 6th International Congress As2016 was held June 19-23, 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden and was entitled Arsenic Research and Global Sustainability. The Congress addressed the broader context of arsenic research along the following themes: Theme 1: Arsenic in Environmental Matrices and Interactions (Air, Water, Soil and Biological Matrices) Theme 2: Arsenic in Food Chain Theme 3: Arsenic and Health Theme 4: Clean Water Technology for Control of Arsenic Theme 5: Societal issues, Policy Studies, Mitigation and Management Long term exposure to low-to-medium levels of arsenic via contaminated food and drinking water can have a serious impact on human health and globally, more than 100 million people are at risk. Since the end of the 20th century, arsenic in drinking water (mainly groundwater) has emerged as a global health concern. In the past decade, the presence of arsenic in plant foods – especially rice – has gained increasing attention. In the Nordic countries in particular, the use of water-soluble inorganic arsenic chemicals (e.g. chromated copper arsenate, CCA) as wood preservatives and the mining of sulfidic ores have been flagged as health concern. The issue has been accentuated by discoveries of naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater, primarily in the private wells, in parts of the Fennoscandian Shield and in sedimentary formations, with potentially detrimental effects on public health. Sweden has been at the forefront of research on the health effects of arsenic, technological solutions for arsenic removal, and sustainable mitigation measures for developing countries. Hosting this Congress in Sweden was also relevant because historically Sweden has been one of the leading producer of As2O3 and its emission from the smelting industries in northern Sweden and has successfully implemented actions to reduce the industrial emissions of arsenic as well as minimizing the use of materials and products containing arsenic in since 1977. The Congress has gathered professionals involved in different segments of interdisciplinary research in an open forum, and strengthened relations between academia, industry, research laboratories, government agencies and the private sector to share an optimal atmosphere for exchange of knowledge, discoveries and discussions about the problem of arsenic in the environment and catalyze the knowledge generation and innovations at a policy context to achieve the goals for post 2015 Sustainable Development.
Author: Ali Aslan Gümüsay
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2022-03-29
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1839098287
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges unpacks how diverse forms of organizing help tackle-or reinforce-grand challenges,while emphasizing the need for researchers to expand their methodological repertoire and reflect upon scholarly practices.
Author: Achim Brunnengräber
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-12
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 3658271078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the last part of a trilogy and concludes a long-term project that focussed on nuclear waste governance in 24 countries. It deals with core themes of the disposal of high-level radioactive waste (HLW), e.g. the wicked problems of housing nuclear waste disposal facilities, public participation and public discourse, voluntarism and compensation in siting as well as the role of advisory bodies and commissions. The volume reflects on the diverse factors that shape the debate on what can be considered an ”acceptable solution” and on various strategies adopted in order to minimise conflicts and possibly increase acceptability. The various theoretical and empirical contributions shed light on several mechanisms and issues touched upon in these strategies, such as the role of trust, voluntarism, economic interests at stake, compensation, ethics, governance, and participation.
Author: Justin Waring
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-11-08
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 3030826961
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The COVID-19 pandemic has led to radical transformations in the organisation and delivery of health and care services across the world. In many countries, policy makers have rushed to re-organise care services to meet the surge demand of COVID-19, from re-purposing existing services to creating new ‘field’ hospitals. Such strategies signal important and sweeping changes in the organisation of both ‘COVID’ and ‘non-COVID’ care, whilst asking more fundamental questions about the long-term organisation of care ‘after COVID’. In some contexts, the pandemic has exposed the fragilities and vulnerabilities of care systems, whilst in others, it has shown how services are organised to be more resilient and adaptive to unanticipated pressures. The COVID-19 pandemic presents a rare opportunity to examine empirically and to develop new theoretical frameworks on how and why health systems adapt to such unusual and intense pressures. International contributors consider how responses to COVID-19 are transforming the organisation and governance of health and care services and explore questions around strategic leadership at local, regional, national and transnational level. The book offers unique insight and analysis on the dynamics of policy-making, the organisation and governance of care organisations, the role of technologies in governing, the changing role of professionals and the possibilities for more resilient care systems.
Author: Walter Lepore
Publisher:
Published: 2018
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This doctoral dissertation consists of three separate but related studies that describe and explain government attention on wicked problems as a two-level phenomenon (the individual and the organizational) illustrating basic constituent elements of any attention process: the stimulus, the perception of the stimulus, and the visible actions taken as a response to the way in which the stimulus was perceived. Each study involves different research designs and levels of analysis, viz.: (i) a systematic qualitative review of empirical research on wicked problems (conceptual level of analysis), (ii) a series of psychological experiments based on realistic hypothetical decision making scenarios (individual level), and (iii) a case study of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans of Canada (organizational level). The first study analyzes key attributes of wicked problems that turn them into stimuli difficult to be addressed using extant models of government attention and traditional decision making approaches. I develop a conceptual framework that explains the main sources of wickedness of public policy problems and their consequences for policy making at government organizations. In the second study I investigate how arbitrary changes in the presentation of a wicked issue (i.e., problem framing) affect policy decisions. The study was designed to test the presence of behavioural anomalies and decision biases when people tend to reason and make decisions on wicked problems in scenarios involving policy decisions in the field of socio-ecological sustainability. Based on the results of this study, I develop a causal model that explains how the manipulation of problem definitions has an influence on policy responses and on the attitude of the participants regarding those responses. The third study analyzes the outputs of attention allocation processes in a public organization. This is a case study that explains how two types of events interrelate to make up an organizational process of attention, viz.: the issues that are identified as critical and important in matters related to the sustainability of Pacific salmon in British Columbia as a wicked problem, and the answers deployed by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to deal with it during two attention cycles, 1990-93 and 1994-98. Through the comparison of these attention cycles I was able to identify a longitudinal pattern of attention, understand how wicked problems evolve over time, and determine some form of causality that explains why certain governmental responses to a wicked problem have been applied in such specific context and period of time. By synthesizing and integrating the findings of the three studies, this doctoral dissertation provides a better understanding of, and an alternative approach to, the process of attention on wicked problems at public organizations.
