Sökning: "bureaucratic control"
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1. Controlled by Knowledge : A Study of two Clinical pathways in Mental Healthcare
Sammanfattning : Standardisation of professional work is a major policy concern to ensure quality and efficiency of services and a number of hospitals are now focusing on the use of clinical pathways as an important tool to standardise their work. This study sheds light on the processes set in motion when notions of standardisation meet local practice. LÄS MER
2. Bureaucratic politics and weapons acquisition : the case of the MX ICBM program : (in two volumes)
Sammanfattning : The dissertation is about the process by which the armed forces of the United States acquire weapons of war. In order to elucidate the U.S. weapons acquisition process, it examines in detail the history of the controversial MX intercontinental ballistic missile program. LÄS MER
3. Auditors’ Constitution of Performance : a study on the duality of performance in the auditing profession
Sammanfattning : For decades, the auditing profession has been under scrutiny, due in part to its close association with a business rationale. This has led to some to call for de-professionalization, where accountability, control, and commerce would threaten auditing’s autonomy. LÄS MER
4. Specialiserad biståndshandläggning inom den kommunala äldreomsorgen : Genomförandet av en organisationsreform och dess praktik
Sammanfattning : The 1990s was a period characterized by a strong pressure for reform in the Swedish municipalities. The care manager reform, i.e. the initiation of a position within the administration - the care manager - whose work tasks are concentrated around needs-assessment practices only, was one of many reform proposals. LÄS MER
5. Operational Military Violence : A Cartography of Bureaucratic Minds and Practices
Sammanfattning : Western use of military violence is becoming increasingly centralised, partly through the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (or more commonly referred to as “drones” in the literature). Drone technology allows control and command of military operations to be put under one roof, and as military organisations traditionally have a close dependence on technological developments, procedures and regulations for centralised command and control have developed in close concert with advances in drone technology. LÄS MER
