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Preconditions for Service Design in Colombia: Governance and Community Challenges
(2020-09-15)
Owing to the conditions of poverty in which 28% of its inhabitants live, the national government of Colombia provides services through its local administration in order to care for the needs of its vulnerable communities. ...
Acting Into the Living Present: Taking Account of Complexity and Uncertainty when Leading Consultancy Teams in International Water Projects
(2018-01-29)
This thesis addresses how leaders find themselves doing something even when they don’t know what to do. It is based on my own practice as an experienced team leader and it deals with questions of action, time, identity and ...
Complexity and the Practices of Communities in Healthcare: Implications for an Internal Practice Consultant
(2012-09-07)
Current literature regarding quality health services frequently identifies
interprofessional collaboration (IPC) as essential to patient-centred care, sustainable
health systems, and a productive workforce. The IPC ...
The Social Character of Organizational Change: Strategizing as Emergent Practice
(2010-11-18)
Increasingly, researchers on strategy are turning away from the highly abstracted and de-humanized components that seem to typify the macro approach to strategy. This movement is at least partially brought about by a ...
The Experience of Policymaking in Healthcare: The Interaction of Policy Formulation and Frontline Staff Practice
(2010-09-15)
My research focuses on the experience of policy development and implementation. It draws on my involvement in a government policy taskforce, the development of an organisation’s strategy to the taskforce’s recommendations ...
Generating Experiences of Transformation: An Organizational Practice of Change
(2008-05-23)
This portfolio identifies a lacuna in the ways most mainstream management literature
speaks of change. This literature focuses predominantly on the activities of 'planning', 'implementing' and 'evaluating' change in ...
Functions and Polynomials over Finite Groups from the Computational Perspective
(2008-05-07)
In the thesis we investigate the connections between arbitrary functions and their realizing polynomials over finite algebras. We study functionally complete algebras, i.e. algebras over which every function can be realized ...
The Cult Value of Quality Improvement in Healthcare: Complex Social Processes of Working With Targets
(2008-04-29)
There has been an ongoing debate on quality and what constitutes quality improvement in healthcare for several decades. Several authors identify that defining quality is an important part of that debate, yet recognise that ...