Institutions and Human Relations
A Search for Stability in a Changing World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3758944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nevil Johnson (Nuffield College, Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-43 |
| Publication date | 1994-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764294038001004 |
| OpenAlex | W2024974378 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Recent emphasis on performance and output measures in public sector reform in the United Kingdom rests on assumptions of purposeful rationality and a view of man as essentially goal seeking. Geoffrey Vickers's conception of public institutions as concerned with the regulation of relationships rather than the pursuit of goals challenges the implicit down-grading of the qualitative aspects of institutions that is associated with this approach to reform. There is a need to qualify individualism by acknowledging dependence on the social context of regulation
Context (archaeology) · Economics · Grading (engineering) · Individualism · Methodological individualism · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Public relations · Public sector · Rationality · Social institution · Social science · Sociology · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 1995 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |