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    Evidence-based management: The very idea.

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    Publication date
    2006
    Author
    Learmonth, M.
    Harding, Nancy H.
    Keyword
    Evidence-based management
    Health care
    Public services
    Peer-Reviewed
    Yes
    
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    Abstract
    This essay critically evaluates the recent phenomenon of `evidence-based management' in public services that is especially prominent in health care. We suggest that the current approach, broadly informed by evidence-based health care, is misguided given the deeply contested nature of `evidence' within the discipline of management studies. We argue that its growing popularity in spite of the theoretical problems it faces can be understood primarily as a function of the interests served by the universalization of certain forms of managerialist `evidence' rather than any contribution to organizational effectiveness. Indeed, in a reading informed by the work of French geographer Henri Lefebvre, we suggest that in the long term the project is likely to inhibit rather than encourage a fuller understanding of the nature of public services. We conclude with a call for forms of organizational research that the current preoccupations of the evidence-based project marginalize if not write out altogether.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3075
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    published version paper
    Citation
    Learmonth, M. and Harding, N.H. (2006) Evidence-based management: The very idea. Public Administration. Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 245-266.
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    http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118609442/PDFSTART
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