Strategic management in public services organizations
Subtitle: concepts, schools and contemporary issues
By: Ewan Ferlie and Edoardo Ongaro
Contributors: Ongaro, Edoardo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780415855389; 9780415855372
Subjects: Management; Administrative agencies; Public administration; Strategic planning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-241) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : our core argument and overview; title: Schools of strategic management and their implications for contemporary public services organizations : Part 1 from structure to culture; title: Further proliferation of schools of strategic management : Part II the 1980s onwards; title: Strategy as process : a review and prospective agenda; title: Strategy making and governance in the third sector; title: Framing the context : managing strategically public services organisations in different politico-administrative houses; title: Strategy and performance; title: Strategic management, the quest for excellence, and the best practices research in public management; title: Conclusion : strategic management in the public sector as both science and art and profession.