The central question addressed in this paper is 'Why have organizational strategies emerged in the public sector?' Two broad answers are suggested. First, 'strategies' profile the organization through identifying aims, outputs and outcomes. Public services must, now, provide such transparency in...

By weaving together the fields of health economics, industrial organisation and industrial development, this book describes the benefits of promoting a country’s health industry as a way of stimulating its high-technology industrial capacity. The authors illustrate that the development of...