Public ownership/Nationalization

Public Personnel Management has served as an essential, concise reader for public personnel and human resource management courses in the fields of ...

This title was first published in 2001: This innovative text applies new institutional economics, public choice theory, and new public management c...

Public administration and policy analysis education have long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners frequently must deal ...

This book reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage site of inestimable value the Venice Arsenal. Focusing on the chal...

China faces the problem of collaboration deficiency in local governance of metropolitan areas. With the evolution of regional spatial structure in ...

Many books on performance management or evaluation are about the public sector in general or specifically about some programs or organizations. Onl...

Providing human service through markets is inherently problematic. Quality care is critical and unsatisfactory human service greatly influences peo...

The European Union (EU) has a compliance problem: there are persistent failures in the implementation of EU rules and policies by the member states...

This guidebook systematically analyses the contribution of family medicine to highquality primary health care in addressing the challenges faced by...

Growing interest in corporate social responsibility (CSR) has focused attention on the relationship between businesses and key stakeholders, such a...

This book examines the introduction and ongoing development of public medical care insurance in contemporary China. Based on extensive field invest...

The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event. An integrated industry was broken-up into numerous com...

How does a smart organization model enable self-governments to lead local and regional development in a sustainable and resilient manner? What are ...

This thought-provoking book examines breakdowns in the quality of health and social care over the past decade, exploring governance failures and th...

This book investigates the case of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Peoples Republic of China, mapping the changing patterns of pol...

This book examines the importance of accumulated disaster management experience and the risk awareness of civil society by analyzing Koreas COVID-1...

This book explores young Cambodians perceptions of their place in todays society and how they interact with the countrys arts and culture scene. Th...

Public value theory has advanced over the past 30 years, but there is a need to extend its boundary outwards into new contexts and update its disco...

China today has the largest communist political regime and one of the most dynamic, fastest-growing, and largest economies in the world. Using a ca...

Citizen Participation in the Age of Contracting is based on a simple premise: in democracies, power originates with citizens. While citizen partici...

Strategic Management in Public Organizations: European Practices and Perspectives offers the first wide-ranging survey and assessment of strategic ...

Despite the pressure for local councils to follow the lead of the private sector and develop shared service and partnership arrangements, the barri...

Public Private Partnerships are no longer new. They are now a well-established vehicle for delivering large capital projects or managing services. ...

The book examines the management of social purpose driven organizations in an Asian context, using the case study approach. It looks at these organ...

Innovation is seen as an interactive process that involves many actors within and across organizational boundaries. In public sector services, inno...

Trust has been the subject of empirical and theoretical inquiry in a range of disciplines, including sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, ...

Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs draws on a range of theoretical approaches and empirical evidence to explore how development organisati...

Although much has been written about the Korean public administration, the international academic community has little knowledge about it as most o...

This book provides comprehensive and advanced analysis of the characteristics of social entrepreneurship in Europe. It offers innovative, up-todate...

In organizations these days, there are two cultures, two sets of expectations, two languages; that of the business-as-usual organization and separa...

Public goods are typically defined only in reference to the good itself but, as this book argues, the public goods can be better understood if cont...

This title was first published in 2003.This book explores many of the major issues of concern to researchers studying trade unionism. It offers: a ...

American Public Administration has been the go-to introductory textbook for Public Administration courses with a focus on civil society for the bet...

Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership...

Super series are a set of workbooks to accompany the flexible learning programme specifically designed and developed by the Institute of Leadership...

A helpful resource for those studying business communication, this text works well alongside Understanding the Communication Process in the Workpla...