This book is an introduction to a key issue in management research that usually goes
unnoticed ą epistemology and its variability. Our thesis is that management research can …

As agricultural scientists rapidly develop and deploy novel continuous living cover (CLC)
crops and cropping systems such as perennial grains, a growing number of intermediaries …

Dominant governance theories are drawn primarily from Euro-American sources, including
emergent theories of network and collaborative governance. The authors contest this narrow …

Postmodern Public Policy introduces new ways of investigating the urgent difficulties
confronting the public sector. The second half of the twentieth century saw approaches to …

Interpretive approaches to governance include poststructuralism, constructivist
institutionalism, practical philosophy and democratic pluralism. All of these interpretive …

The United States is about to face a maternity workforce crisis in the next decade because
the number of medical students choosing obstetrics and gynecology is stagnant, the number …

The discipline of public administration draws predominantly from political and organizational
theory, but also from other social and behavioral sciences, philosophy, and even theology …

This study examines whether a gap exists between researchers' and practitioners' ideas
about what constitutes significance and usefulness in content, methodology, and format …

The 1990s debate on postmodernism as a metatheoretical basis for American public
administration is reviewed based on its progress over time. Important themes in the debates …

This article discusses what the conditions of postmodernity are about, distinguishing
between conditions in society (is there a postmodern epoch?) and in social research (how …