FOR APPROPRIATENESS OR CONSEQUENCES? EXPLAINING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN ENGLISH LOCAL GOVERNMENT

New institutional theory suggests that radical organizational change is guided by a logic of appropriateness in which organizations change their structures and processes in response to changes in prevailing notions of how best to organize. Contingency theories suggests, by contrast, that organizatio...

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Published in:Public administration (London) 2011-06, Vol.89 (2), p.661-680
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Public management
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Studies
Technology
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