We Need to Talk About Knowledge! Rethinking Management and Evidence-Based Practice in Welfare

New Public Management (NPM) and Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) are two fundamental concepts within welfare professions. Both NPM EBP central to many debates welfare, often criticised as posing simplified or positivist approaches management knowledge utilization. Epistemologically, both manifestations of modernity, with its emphases on standardization, control, simple causality measurability. These epistemological similarities have not been explored potential doorways for making modifications EBP. The purpose this paper is contribute new ways thinking doing complex issues by increasing the understanding these concepts. taken here subjects joint conceptual analysis. guided following question: What an appropriate epistemology professionals involved in managing? Literature analyzed together theoretical insights from scholarship formalization heterogeneity expertise, light empirical examples a case subregional social sustainability/public health initiative. Drawing development post-NPM more versions EBP, ends introducing notion post-EBP, concludes outlining some implications concept working