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IAN KIRKPATRICK is Senior Lecturer in Organization Behaviour at Leeds University Business School, UK. He has conducted various projects on management in public services and his current research interests are mainly in the area of management and employment change in public organizations and professional services firms. His book publications include: The Politics of Quality in the Public Sector and The New Managerialism and Public Service Professions.
MARTIN KITCHENER is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA. In 1999 he was awarded a Harkness Research Fellowship at the University of California Berkeley to research academic health center mergers and systems of professional work control. He has studied institutional dynamics in the home care and ursing homes fields of the US long-term care industry, and is currently directing a Federal government-funded research project on the development of personal assistance programs for the disabled.
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Book Title: Managing Residential Childcare
Book Subtitle: A Managed Service
Authors: Richard Whipp, Ian Kirkpatrick, Martin Kitchener
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230506121
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3560-1Published: 12 November 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51804-3Published: 01 January 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50612-1Published: 12 November 2004
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 235
Topics: Children, Youth and Family Policy, Social Work, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Management, Political Science, Organization