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  • Social Enterprise in China

    State-Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness

    by Echo Lei Wang ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Wang offers an empirically based exploration into work-integration social enterprises as a means for delivering social services in China.Focusing on the political economy of social enterprise development in China, Wang examines the nature of the relationship between the state and social enterprises and the implications of such relationships for their institutional effectiveness. She adopts a ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Spatial Planning and High-tech Development

    A comparative study of Eindhoven city-region, the Netherlands and Hsinchu City-region, Taiwan

    by Wei-Ju Huang ...
    n the past three decades, numerous high-tech city-regions have emerged with the rise of new high-tech industries across the world. Many of them have been specifically supported by national technology policies—in developed or developing countries—implemented to trigger economic growth and to enhance global competitiveness at the national and/or city-regional level. These policies have involved the ... Read more

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  • The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    by Patrice Dutil, Cosmo Howard, John Langford, Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable resources are being invested in measuring and showcasing performance improvement.This book probes ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Ethics and Management in the Public Sector

    by Alan Lawton, Julie Rayner, Karin Lasthuizen ...
    Series series Routledge Masters in Public Management
    Grappling with ethical issues is a daily challenge for those working in organizations that deliver public services. Such services are delivered through an often bewildering range of agencies and amidst this constant change, there are fears that a public service ethos, a tradition of working in the public interest, becomes blurred.Using extensive vignettes and case studies, Ethics and Management in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education

    A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Hanne Foss Hansen, Kirsi Pulkkinen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and micro) dimensions, namely: reform or policy initiatives; drivers, aims, instruments and actors; structural changes within ... Read more

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  • The Changing Landscape of the Academic Profession

    Faculty Culture at For-Profit Colleges and Universities

    by Vicente M. Lechuga ...
    The rapid success of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) only recently has caught the attention of scholars in academe. The continuing expansion of the proprietary higher education sector has lead to fundamental questions regarding the purpose and function of FPCUs. As new technologies continue to emerge, education is becoming of increasing import to employees seeking to upgrade their ... Read more

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  • Social Accounting and Public Management

    Accountability for the Public Good

    Edited by Stephen P. Osborne, Amanda Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Social accounting as a discipline has challenged the methodology and focus of the larger field of accounting over the last 50 years. More recently it has taken on greater significance for other subjects as well, addressing issues for public policy and management more broadly. These include the issues of the nature of accountability in the contemporary plural state, environmental and societal ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Educational Policy and the Politics of Change

    by Miriam Henry, Bob Lingard, Fazal Rizvi, Sandra Taylor ...
    Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educational policy finds itself at the centre of a major political struggle between those who see it only for its instrumental outcomes and those who see its potential for human emancipation.This book is a successor to the best-selling Understanding ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

    Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend. This book aims to go further by systematizing the growing body of academic papers and reports that focus ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The New Public Governance?

    Emerging Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance

    Edited by Stephen P. Osborne ...
    Despite predictions that 'new public management' would establish itself as the new paradigm of Public Administration and Management, recent academic research has highlighted concerns about the intra-organizational focus and limitations of this approach. This book represents a comprehensive analysis of the state of the art of public management, examining and framing the debate in this important ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Comparative Governance

    Rediscovering the Functional Dimension of Governing

    by B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre ...
    Decision-making is at the heart of governing and governance, and is a more challenging task compared to just a few decades ago as a result of increasing social complexity and globalization. In this book, B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre propose a new framework for the comparative analysis of governance, arguing that government remains a central actor in governance. By articulating the functionalist ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Social Media and Democracy

    Innovations in Participatory Politics

    Edited by Brian D. Loader, Dan Mercea ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Political Communication
    This book critically investigates the complex interaction between social media and contemporary democratic politics, and provides a grounded analysis of the emerging importance of Social media in civic engagement.Social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, have increasingly been adopted by politicians, political activists and social movements as a means to engage, organize ... Read more

    $70.99 USD