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Beyond Delivery

Policy Implementation as Sense-Making and Settlement

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  • © 2006

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  1. Edward Peck

    1. University of Birmingham, UK

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  2. Perri Six

    1. Nottingham Trent University, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Beyond “Delivery”: Policy Implementation as Organisational Process

    • Edward Peck, Perri Six
    Pages 1-21

  3. Achieving Settlements between Ways of Organising

    • Edward Peck, Perri Six
    Pages 22-49

  4. Memory, Forgetting, Time Horizons and Capability in Organisations

    • Edward Peck, Perri Six
    Pages 50-77

  5. Meetings as Rituals

    • Edward Peck, Perri Six
    Pages 78-101

  6. Money and the Organisational Process: Organisational Capability and the Relationship between Structure and Agency

    • Edward Peck, Perri Six
    Pages 102-132

  7. Varieties of Networks and Policy Implementation

    • Edward Peck, Perri Six
    Pages 133-159

  8. Implementation as Adoption of Innovation

    • Edward Peck, Perri Six
    Pages 160-182

  9. Organisational Development in Organisational Settlement and Sense-making

    • Edward Peck, Perri Six
    Pages 183-206

  10. Epilogue: Settlements and Sense-Making

    • Edward Peck, Perri Six
    Pages 207-213

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 214-237
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Beyond Delivery sets out a critique of the mechanical ways in which some policy makers seek to exercise governance over the implementation of their policies. It offers a timely critique of the current British government's approach.

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'...this book shoud, in all probability, provoke further debate.' - David Richards, Political Studies Review

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Birmingham, UK

    Edward Peck

  • Nottingham Trent University, UK

    Perri Six

About the authors

EDWARD PECK is Professor of Healthcare Partnerships, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, UK, and Director of the Health Services Management Centre, UK. He is especially interested in the theory and practice of organizational development. His recent books include Managing Networks of Twenty-First Century Organisations (with Perri 6, 2006) and Organisational Development in Healthcare: Approaches, Innovations and Achievements (2005).

PERRI 6 is Professor of Social Policy at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His recent books include Managing Networks of Twenty-First Century Organisations (with Edward Peck, 2006), E-governance: Styles of Political Judgment in the Information Age Polity (2004) and Towards Holistic Governance: The New Reform Agenda (2002).

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