Books By Steve (Professor of Management and Director, Research Institute for Public Policy and Management, Keele University) Cropper - Author

Steve Cropper is Professor of Management at the Institute for Public Policy and Management at Keele University, UK. His research concerns strategy making, decision support and inter-agency collaborative working in health and public services, working closely with policy makers and practitioners. He is inaugural chair of an advisory committee for the National Health Service's 'Research for Patient Benefit' programme. Current research projects are tracing the formation and development, over time, of partnerships and networks in community and health care settings using ethnographic, process evaluation and action research. He is co-editor of three other books and author of a series of papers on collaborative inter-organizational processes. He is a steering group member and former convenor of the Special Interest Group on Inter-Organizational Relations of the British Academy of Management. Mark Ebers is Professor of Business Administration, Corporate Development and Organization, at Cologne University, Germany, si