Public ownership/Nationalization

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...

This book is based upon and extends the theoretical and empirical work of the author over the last decade. It integrates material deriving from his...

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

This book endeavors to take the conceptualization of the relationship between business, government and development in African countries to a new le...

This second edition of Welcome to GoodCo updates the author's critically acclaimed analysis of how the tools of business are being (and ought to be...

Since the crisis in governance which led to a shortage of capable board members, recent years have seen the emergence of the enterprising arts orga...

There are an estimated 40,000 international Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), working in an enormous global aid industry; official development a...

In Sustainable Governance in Hybrid Organizations the author Linne Marie Lauesen explores how businesses that have succeeded in conducting sustaina...

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of current reforms in public sector quality management in Eastern Europe. Comparisons are made with t...

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

Environment and sustainable development challenges are a matter of global concern. Trillions of dollars of mostly public money are invested every y...

Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Fourth Edition provides a compact but complete analysis of leadership for students and practition...

Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations, Fourth Edition provides a compact but complete analysis of leadership for students and practition...

Consumer co-operatives provide a different approach to organizing business through their ideals of member ownership and democratic practice. Every ...

Like so many of the coastal cities in Southeast Asia (and other regions) established during European colonialism, there has been an ongoing challen...

Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging and including citiz...

This book presents a wide variety of HIT failures so that students can dissect and understand in each case what went wrong and why and how to avoid...

First published in 1963, Edgar Ansteys work gives a detailed account on the inner workings of the committee. Within a committee, different interest...

This volume compiles a dozen essays, by one of the most prolific proponents of co-production as a solution for many of the challenges facing public...

This title was first published in 2000: This timely volume makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the issues faced by developing cou...

This title was first published in 2001. This study explores the operation of the Treuhandanstalt, the trust agency responsible for implementing the...

The Allied Health Professions - Essential Guides series is unique in providing advice on management, leadership and development for those in the Al...

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 ...

This book provides a concise introduction to the latest research in the fundraising and nonprofit marketing field. It details the foundational stud...

This book offers an original critical evaluation of how freelance careers can be established and sustained in the increasingly uncertain global cre...