Strategic management in public services organizations : concepts, schools and contemporary issues
By: Ferlie, Ewan
Title By: Ongaro, Edoardo
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, c2015.Description: ix, 251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780415855389Subject(s): Public administration | Strategic planning | Administrative agencies -- ManagementDDC classification: 352.3/4 Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 352.34 FE ST (Browse shelf) | Available | T0019226 |
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| 352.236 JO ST Strategic leadership in the public sector | 352.2360973 HA ND The handbook of federal government leadership and administration : | 352.266 IN TE International corporate governance : | 352.34 FE ST Strategic management in public services organizations : | 352.34 RH ST Strategic management and public service performance / | 352.34 ST RA Strategic management in public organizations : | 352.3409536 JO PU Public governance and strategic management capabilities : |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and index.
Introduction : our core argument and overview -- Schools of strategic management and their implications for contemporary public services organizations : Part 1 from structure to culture -- Further proliferation of schools of strategic management : Part II the 1980s onwards -- Strategy as process : a review and prospective agenda -- Strategy making and governance in the third sector -- Framing the context : managing strategically public services organisations in different politico-administrative houses -- Strategy and performance -- Strategic management, the quest for excellence, and the best practices research in public management -- Conclusion : strategic management in the public sector as both science and art and profession.
Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations sets out to connect the two traditionally disparate academic literatures of public management and strategic management. The authors argue that some models of strategic management are now of enhanced relevance for contemporary public services organizations, especially when considering successive New Public Management reforms. This observation has important consequences for the requisite work practices, skills and knowledge bases of current public managers, as they are increasingly being asked to act as strategic as well as operational managers.
Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations takes a strongly comparative and international perspective in addressing the fundamental issue of strategic management within diverse public administrative traditions. The impact of strategic management on the performance of public agencies is examined and it is argued that the appropriate use of strategic management models depends on the politico-administrative and cultural contexts of the public services organization in question, concluding that there is no single best way to strategically lead public organisations.
This is an advanced textbook aimed at the postgraduate level, particularly students on MPAs and MBAs with a public sector option or MScs in Public Policy and Public Management.