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  • Managing and Measuring Social Enterprises

    by Rob Paton ...
    `Its emphasis on performance measurement affords rare insights into some innovative techniques. Moreover, institutional and other theories are deployed to explore the reasons for innovation.... The book should be a prized resource for postgraduate students who seek a deeper understanding of social enterprise measurement and management practices. It covers extremely and topical issues, while the ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Making Policy Happen

    Edited by Leslie Budd, Julie Charlesworth, Rob Paton ...
    ‘Policy work’ is increasingly conducted by public managers at different levels of seniority, and in a variety of settings. This significant collection of readings focuses on the discussion of how policy work happens, whether that involves bringing a policy-making process to fruition or the implementation of policy.The ideas included here draw on many different academic disciplines including ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

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  • Corporate Social Responsibility

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  • The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

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    by Patrice Dutil, Cosmo Howard, John Langford, Jeffrey Roy ...
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  • Policy Analysis in Canada

    Edited by Laurent Dobuzinskis, Michael Howlett, David Laycock ...
    Series series IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
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  • A Socially Critical View Of The Self-Managing School

    Edited by John Smyth ...
    The shift from the model of central government educational control to school- based management has been widely adopted and acclaimed and has created the general impression of increased democracy and participation.; The international contributors to this book tackle this important policy issue and look behind the scenes of the moves towards school self- management. They investigate the phenomenon ... 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

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  • State Management

    An Enquiry into Models of Public Administration & Management

    by Jan-Erik Lane ...
    State Management offers a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the new field of state management, presenting an analysis of basic questions within the theories of bureaucracy, policy-making, principal-agent modelling and policy networks. Focussing upon recent state transformation, it illuminates public sector reform strategies such as New Public Management as well as incorporation, tendering ... Read more

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  • Global Creative Industries

    by Terry Flew ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    The creative industries are the subject of growing attention among policy-makers, academics, activists, artists and development specialists worldwide. This engaging book provides a global overview of developments in the creative industries, and analyses how these developments relate to wider debates about globalization, cities, culture and the global creative economy.Flew considers creative ... Read more

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  • The New Public Governance?

    Emerging Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance

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  • Private Management and Public Policy

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    by James Post, Lee E. Preston ...
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    Private Management and Public Policy is a landmark work at the intersection of business and society. First published in 1975, it focuses on the management processes that companies use to respond to social issues. The text develops the "principle of public responsibility" as an alternative to the notion that firms have unlimited accountability. And, it presents one of the first systems-based ... Read more

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