Managing health care under New Public Management: A Sisyphean challenge for nursing

Journal of Sociology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 419-432

  Newman, Stuart ^a   Lawler, Jocalyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Healthcare reform; Leadership; Management of nursing services; Marginalization; New Public Management; Nurse managers; Politicization

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450235085     PISSN: 14407833     EISSN: 17412978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1440783309346477     Document Type: Article

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