This work updates and replaces an earlier volume, Information Technology and Computer Applications in Public Administration: Issues and Trends (Idea Group Publishing, 1999). All contributions to …
The impetus for this book comes from two meetings co-sponsored by the Public Management Research Association (www.pmranet.org/index.html) in different parts of the world, two large-scale empiri…
This book presents some of the works contributed by participating scholars and practitioners at the conference. The contents fall into three categories: corruption and anticorruption initiatives…
The public sector, with its wide range of organizations, plays a key role in our society. Whether or not these public sector organizations should foster entrepreneurial management in order to fu…
Public sector organizations face a changing environment and increasing expectations to enhance public value creation. Scholars and practitioners have repeatedly suggested that these organizatio…
This book is one of several that currently exemplify the emergence of a broad community of European scholars of public administration and public management that can rival, in breadth and diversit…
We decided to write this third edition of The Effective Public Manager principally to communicate what we have learned about public management in the past six years and to update the examples us…
At the request of the Dutch government, the OECD Secretariat conducted a study on the organisation of central government from the perspective of value for money. The Dutch government is interes…
During the writing of this book, I moved to a new job in Australia. This slowed down the writing of the book significantly but prompted some new reflections on policy dynamics and the incorporati…
The intent of this document is to provide a foundation for developing learning strategies and curriculum for public sector risk management. Effective risk management is critically important for th…
The broad topic addressed in this book – innovation in public services – is extremely important and little studied. Most of the research on innovation has been focused on innovation by privat…
This book is a joint effort by the members of the Centre for Public Management at the Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Even those researchers who did not author …
“Explores the current models of government reform across the world, examining the basic tool kit of reformers and probing the underlying issues of government management and the puzzles of govern…