Environmental conflicts are the source of many large-scale popular protests in China, with
some protests substantially endangering social order. Such protests have often prompted …

Literature commonly links the role of informality in collective bargaining to industrial relations
systems based on voluntarism and decentralized negotiation settings. According to this …

Objective: To examine key factors influencing the prioritisation of food and nutrition in
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy during 1996–2015. Design: A qualitative …

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo contribuir a la discusión académica sobre el papel que
ejercen las características político institucionales de los sistemas de contratación pública …

The roots of implementation research lie in the analysis of reforms and 'failures'(Pressman
and Wildavsky 1984; Mayntz 1980). A claim often heard in such assessments is 'had there …

Background In the UK managers from multiple organisations are commonly tasked with
collectively devising and implementing local health and wellbeing policies as a way of …

This paper considers the link between policy tools and governance modes–the
characteristic ways frontline staff are meta-governed. It asks: Are substantive policy tools …

This article, based on narratives of experienced (born between 1945 and 1950) municipal
chief executive officers, investigates changes that challenge leadership in local government …

Current literature on the impact of technology innovation has mainly focused on
manufacturing firms and networks and has considered technology impact as having an …

Against a global background of increased resource management responsibilities for primary
health care agencies, general medical practices, in particular, are increasingly being …