Governments around the world, but especially in Europe, have increasingly used private
sector involvement in developing, financing and providing public health infrastructure and …

What is the difference between public and private management? This contested question
has implications for why and how to study public management and for how to manage public …

Eager to learn from private sector trends, practitioners in (semi) public organizations across
the world have recently turned their eyes to the concept of work engagement to improve …

I argue that organization theory and public policy studies, two field that share many common
origins, have had surprisingly little cross-fertilization and that this state of affairs is both …

The provision of public services by for-profit and non-profit organizations is widespread in
OECD countries, but the jury is still out on whether outsourcing has improved service quality …

Employing a configurational approach we explore how 'hybrid context'shapes organizations'
adoption, and performance implications, of management practice. We do because hybrid …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate if institutional stress is related to job
performance among hospital employees, and if institutional stress is fully or partly mediated …

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are rapidly being implemented across the United
States, but little is known about what environmental and organizational factors are …

Social enterprises have been actively encouraged to spin out of the National Health Service
(NHS) on the grounds that they can deliver more innovative, cost-efficient and responsive …

This Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine investigates the potential for positive inter-
disciplinary interaction, a 'generative dance', between organization studies (OS), and two of …