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  • Collaborative Public Management

    New Strategies for Local Governments

    by Robert Agranoff, Michael McGuire ...
    Series series American Governance and Public Policy series
    Local governments do not stand alone—they find themselves in new relationships not only with state and federal government, but often with a widening spectrum of other public and private organizations as well. The result of this re-forming of local governments calls for new collaborations and managerial responses that occur in addition to governmental and bureaucratic processes-as-usual, bringing ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collaborating to Manage

    A Primer for the Public Sector

    by Robert Agranoff ...
    Series series Public Management and Change series
    Collaborating to Manage captures the basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era where government must partner with external organizations as well as other agencies to work together to solve difficult public problems. In this primer, Robert Agranoff examines current and emergent approaches and techniques in intergovernmental grants and regulation management, purchase-of-service ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crossing Boundaries for Intergovernmental Management

    by Robert Agranoff ...
    Series series Public Management and Change series
    Today, the work of government often involves coordination at the federal, state, and local levels as well as with contractors and citizens’ groups. This process of governance across levels of government, jurisdictions, and types of actors is called intergovernmental relations, and intergovernmental management (IGM) is the way work is administered in this increasingly complex system. Leading ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Managing within Networks

    Adding Value to Public Organizations

    by Robert Agranoff ...
    Series series Public Management and Change series
    The real work of many governments is done not in stately domed capitols but by a network of federal and state officials working with local governments and nongovernmental organizations to address issues that cross governmental boundaries. Managing within Networks analyzes the structure, operations, and achievements of these public management networks that are trying to solve intractable problems ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Collaborative Public Management

    A Primer

    by Robert Agranoff, Aleksey Kolpakov ...
    Series series Public Administration and Public Policy
    Although one often thinks of collaborative management and related group problem-solving as different interests coming together in "peaceful harmony," nothing could be further from reality. Collaboration in real-world action requires steering and negotiation in virtually every situation, with a considerable process that precedes agreement. This progression is, in effect, a "mini" political and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Local Governments in Multilevel Governance

    The Administrative Dimension

    by Robert Agranoff ...
    Local governments serve their communities in many diversified ways as they increasingly engage in multiple connections: international, regional, regional-local, with nongovernmental organizations and through external nongovernmental services county actors. The book discusses how the shift in emphasis from government to governance has raised many management challenges, along with shifting ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Network Theory in the Public Sector

    Building New Theoretical Frameworks

    Edited by Robyn Keast, Myrna P Mandell, Robert Agranoff ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Networks have been described in terms of metaphors, governance arrangements and structural or institutional arrangements. These different perspectives of networks come out of a variety of disciplines, including political science, public administration, urban affairs, social welfare, public management and organizational/sociological research. This wealth of research, while contributing to a deeper ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Collaboration

    Using Networks and Partnerships

    by Mark A. Abramson, Robert Agranoff, Xavier de Souza Briggs, Samuel M. DeMarie, Elaine C. Kamarck, Robert Klitgaard, John W. Scanlon, William M. Snyder, Gregory F. Treverton, William L. Waugh Jr. ...
    Series series IBM Center for the Business of Government
    As government faces more complex problems, and citizens expect more, the way government delivers services and results is changing rapidly. The traditional model of government agencies administering hundreds of programs by themselves is giving way to one-stop services and cross-agency results. This translation implies collaboration-within agencies; among agencies; among levels of governments; and ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Managing Organizational Change in Public Services

    International Issues, Challenges and Cases

    Edited by Rune Todnem By, Calum Macleod ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Organizational Change & Development
    Forming part of the Understanding Organizational Change series, Managing Organizational Change in Public Services focuses on the organizational dimension of change management in public services. Combining aspects of change management theory with ‘real life’ practice in the form of organizational cases from different regions and sectors, this edited collection identifies and analyzes significant ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Advancing Collaboration Theory

    Models, Typologies, and Evidence

    Edited by John C. Morris, Katrina Miller-Stevens ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
    The term collaboration is widely used but not clearly understood or operationalized. However, collaboration is playing an increasingly important role between and across public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. Collaboration has become a hallmark in both intragovernmental and intergovernmental relationships. As collaboration scholarship rapidly emerges, it diverges into several directions, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Branding in Governance and Public Management

    by Jasper Eshuis, E.H. Klijn ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Politicians and public managers utilize branding to communicate with the public as well as to position themselves within the ever-present media now so central to political and administrative life. They must further contend with stakeholders holding contradictory opinions about the nature of a problem, the desirable solutions , and the values at stake. Branding is used as a strategy to manage ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Building Better Public Services

    A Guide for Practitioners

    by Tony Dean ...
    For decades, public service organizations have been under constant and growing pressure from citizens and stakeholders to provide more integrated, effective and accountable programs and services. Governments are beginning to acknowledge that they can’t own every issue and increasingly look to collaboration, networking and consultation at many levels as they design and develop polices, programs and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD