All Outputs (2)

Doing things with words: the case of ‘management’ and ‘administration’ (2005)
Journal Article
Learmonth, M. (2005). Doing things with words: the case of ‘management’ and ‘administration’. Public Administration, 83(3), 617-637. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0033-3298.2005.00465.x

Over the last two decades, management, rather than administration, has become the dominant category through which both academics and practitioners talk, write and argue the organization of public services. More recently, the discourses of leadership... Read More about Doing things with words: the case of ‘management’ and ‘administration’.

Tales of the unexpected? Stirring things up in health care management (2005)
Journal Article
Learmonth, M. (2005). Tales of the unexpected? Stirring things up in health care management. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 19(3), 181-188. https://doi.org/10.1108/14777260510608925

Purpose – Received wisdom about management and leadership in health care takes it for granted that better management is, by definition, a good thing. Aims to raise some doubts about this received wisdom and suggest that perhaps better management may... Read More about Tales of the unexpected? Stirring things up in health care management.