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  • Voluntary and Public Sector Collaboration in Scandinavia

    New Approaches to Co-Production

    Edited by Bjarne Ibsen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In thirteen chapters, the contributors to this volume analyse the different dimensions of a new form of collaboration, termed collective co-production, in the Scandinavian countries.It is a characteristic of the Scandinavian countries – Sweden, Norway and Denmark - that they have both a large public and voluntary sector. For decades, the dominant type of collaboration between the two sectors has ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Functions of Sports Clubs in European Societies

    A Cross-National Comparative Study

    Edited by Siegfried Nagel, Karsten Elmose-Østerlund, Bjarne Ibsen, Jeroen Scheerder ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book takes a closer look at the societal functions of sports clubs by using the broad range of empirical data of a comparative study. There is a limited amount of up-to-date knowledge on the functions of sports clubs and their potential to promote public health, social cohesion and democratic participation through volunteering and thus contribute to public welfare in European societies. Most ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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    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

    $8.99 CAD

  • 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

    $108.99 CAD

  • Co-Production and Co-Creation

    Engaging Citizens in Public Services

    Edited by Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere, Trui Steen ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing more ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Community

    A Contemporary Analysis of Policies, Programs, and Practices

    by Katharine Kelly, Tullio Caputo ...
    Community is an elusive yet frequently invoked concept. Terms like community health, community living, community schools, community policing, community development, and community renewal have become part of the contemporary lexicon.What has led organizations, and particularly Western governments, to take such an interest in community, and why this interest now? What has caused the increasing ... Read more

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  • 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

    $100.99 CAD

  • 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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  • Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development

    by David Lewis ...
    Non-Governmental Development Organizations have seen turbulent times over the decades; however, recent years have seen them grow to occupy high-profile positions in the fight against poverty. They are now seen as an important element of ‘civil society’, a concept that has been given increasing importance by global policy makers. This book has evolved during the course of that period to be a prime ... Read more

    $133.99 CAD