We need to do a 4000 words essay answering this question: To what extent do you agree that management in the public sector is no different to management in the private sector? Based on this readings: -Core Readings: Ackroyd, S., Hughes, J. and Soothill, K. (1989) Public Sector Services and their Management, Journal of Management Studies, 26:6 Boyne, G. (2002) Public and private management: What’s the difference? Journal of Management Studies, 39:1. Stewart, J. and Ranson, S. (1988) Management in the public domain, Public Money and Management, 8:1-2, 13-9 -Additional Readings Ashburner, L. Ferlie, E., Fitzgerald, L. (1996) Organizational transformation and top down change: The case of the NHS, British Journal of Management, 7:1-6 Baker, R. (1969) Organization theory and the public sector, Journal of Management Studies, 6:1, 15-32. Bolton, S. (2004) A simple matter of control: NHS hospital nurses and new management, Jounral of Management Studies, 41:2 Brunsson, N. and Sahlin-Andersson, K. (2000) Constructing Organizations: The example of public sector reform, Organization Studies, 21:721 Clarke, J. (2004) Dissolving the public realm? The logics and limits of neo-liberalism, Journal of Social Policy, 33:1, 27-48 Martin, G. And Currie, G., and Finn, R. (2009) Leadership, service reform and public service networks: The case of cancer-genetics pilots in the English NHS, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 19:769-94 Dopson, S. and Stewart, R. (1990) Public and private sector management: The case for a wider debate, Public Money and Management, 10:1, 37-40 Fottler, M. (1981) Is management really generic? Academy of Management Review, 6:1, 1-12 Jacobs, L. (2014) The contested politics of public value, Public Administration Review, 74:4 Magee, J. and Frasier, C. (2014) Status and power: The principal inputs to influence for public managers, Public Administration Review, 74:3 Marquand, D. (2004) The public domain is a gift of history, Now it is at risk, New Statesman, 19 January Murray, M. (19775) Comparing public and private management: An exploratory essay, Public Administration Review, 35:4, 364-71 Noordegraaf, M. And Ven der Meulen, M., (2008) Professional power play: Organizing management in health care, Public Administration, 86:4, 1055-69 Perry, J. and Rainer, H. (1988) The public-private distinction in organisation theory, Academy of Management Review, 13:2, 182-201 Ring, P. And Perry, J. (1985) Strategic management in public and private organizations: Implications of distinctive contexts and constraints, Academy of Management Review, 10;2, 276-86. Stewart, J. and Clarke, M. (1987) The public service orientation: Issues and dilemmas, Public Administration, 65: summer, 161-77

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