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Institutions and Human Relations

A Search for Stability in a Changing World

Nuffield College, Oxford

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.

American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 38, No. 1, 26-43 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/0002764294038001004


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