International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior: Volume 13 Issue 1

Competing forces in outpatient healthcare delivery: theory and empirics

Lawrence V. Fulton

This study tests the effects of incomplete institutionalization in outpatient healthcare delivery settings on the quality and quantity of services provided after controlling for…

Symposium introduction

Hugh T. Miller, Alka Sapat

Reconciling postmodern public administration and constitutionalism: some reflections on the ideas of stuart hampshire

Michael W. Spicer

Drawing on the ideas of Stuart Hampshire, this paper argues that American constitutionalism, thought of as a set of practices for resolving conflict, may be especially helpful in…

Anti-essentialism in multicultural societies: facilitating multicultural discourse through tolerance of cultural pluralism

Dragan M. Staniševski

Approaching anti-essentialism from the perspective of multiculturalism this article reexamines the value of tolerance in dealing with inter-cultural conflicts and in facilitation…

“Democracies’ guardian genius”1: pragmatism and liberal discourse in public policy

Hans J. Hacker

While liberals agree that the best society is one that supports the equal exercise of personal liberty, there is little agreement among them on what policies best achieve this…

The new pragmatism, antiessentialism, and what is the universal: it’s the situation all the way down

C. F. Abel

A well-known scientist once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast…