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From Staff Satisfaction Surveys to Strategic Action: A Novel Framework for Organisational Learning in Hospitals

open access: yesKnowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how healthcare organisations translate satisfaction survey feedback into organisational knowledge to support organisational learning and knowledge‐based improvement. Hospitals widely use satisfaction surveys to gather feedback from healthcare professionals; however, limited research explains how feedback processes become ...
Ana Filipa Carvalho, Carolina Santos
wiley   +1 more source

Is Ireland really the role model for austerity? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper describes the causes and consequences of Ireland's economic crisis in the context of the policy solution implemented to contain that crisis: protracted fiscal austerity.
Stephen Kinsella
core  

The democratic rhetoric of the austerity measures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The main purpose of this paper is to make an analysis of the policy-legitimizing discourses of the political-economic executive in Portugal considering the social and economic crisis thecountry is going through, and how this democratic legitimation is ...
Van Vossole, Jonas
core   +1 more source

(In)justice in Smart Cities: Barriers and an Integrative Framework for Solution Pathways From a Global Perspective

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart city initiatives aim for sustainability and inclusiveness, but recent evidence shows that they often lead to injustices. Although this contradiction has received growing academic attention, a comprehensive understanding of how justice is addressed within smart city practices remains limited.
Md. Nazmul Haque   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public policy failure in healthcare: The effect of salary reduction for new entrant consultants on recruitment in public hospitals

open access: yesAdministration, 2019
Policies fail or succeed for many reasons. These reasons include the decisionmaking process, which depends on the interplay of interests, as well as ideology and information.
Kiernan Fiona
doaj   +1 more source

Tightening Tensions: Fiscal Policy and Civil Unrest in Eleven South American Countries, 1937 - 1995 [PDF]

open access: yes
Efforts at fiscal consolidation are often limited because of concerns over potential social unrest. From German austerity measures during the 1930s to the violent demonstrations in Greece in 2010, hard times have tended to go hand in hand with ...
Joachim Voth
core  

Theorizing Synchronization of Organizational Resources in Dynamic Environments

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Resource orchestration (RO) in dynamic environments poses challenges during strategic initiatives. Although prior research highlights RO's benefits, little is known about how managerial decisions influence RO over time, potentially leading to inefficiencies.
Haytham Siala   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The austere life [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2017
Since the 2008 financial crisis, austerity has been deployed as a public policy geared towards reducing sovereign debt and restoring economic order, on the one hand, and descried as an example of punitive moralizing by political and economic elites, on the other. This article challenges the economic understanding of the concept of austerity.
openaire   +2 more sources

Policy success and failure in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper introduces the seven articles in the symposium on policy success and failure together with a short introduction to the large literature on policy success and failure. The issue brings together an analysis of success and failure within seven discrete policy domains, including Indigenous policy; immigration; foreign policy; water ...
Keith Dowding   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Psychopolitics of Austerity: democracy, youth and civil protest

open access: yesRecerca: Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi, 2015
This article explores the psychopolitics of austerity with particular reference to Greece and Ireland. It also analyses the relationship between austerity, democracy and civil protest.
Fred Powell
doaj  

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