A Research Agenda for Public Administration

A Research Agenda for Public Administration
Author: Andrew Massey
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019
Genre: Public administration
ISBN: 1788117255

This book addresses salient current issues in public administration research. It seeks to suggest where future research may or indeed ought to be focussed. To advocate the future routes for the development of research, this book is divided into themes, with a clear overlap between different approaches. The book has contributions that will assist students of public administration/public sector management and public policy, especially new PhD students, but will also be a useful resource for more established researchers to understand the major emerging issues within the field.

A Research Agenda for Public Administration

A Research Agenda for Public Administration
Author: Andrew Massey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Public administration
ISBN: 9781788117241

This book addresses salient current issues in public administration research. It seeks to suggest where future research may or indeed ought to be focussed. To advocate the future routes for the development of research, this book is divided into themes, with a clear overlap between different approaches. The book has contributions that will assist students of public administration/public sector management and public policy, especially new PhD students, but will also be a useful resource for more established researchers to understand the major emerging issues within the field.

Public Service Improvement

Public Service Improvement
Author: Rachel E. Ashworth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2010-04-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199545480

The performance of public services is a matter of concern in many countries. Issues of public service efficiency, cost, and effectiveness have moved to the forefront of political debate. This book applies the latest thinking from Management and Organization Studies to public organizations to examine how the public sector can perform better.

A Research Agenda for Border Studies

A Research Agenda for Border Studies
Author: James W. Scott
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-12-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788972740

This innovative Research Agenda uncovers links between different levels of border-making processes, or bordering, from the political to the cognitive, and connects everyday processes and experiences of border-making to the wider social world. It addresses the question of how everyday bordering practices and discourses can be productively linked to different aspects of social relations.

A Research Agenda for Transport Policy

A Research Agenda for Transport Policy
Author: John Stanley
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2019
Genre: Transportation and state
ISBN: 1788970209

Everyone has an opinion on transport: it significantly affects daily lives. This book highlights key transport opportunities and challenges, and identifies research requirements to inform policy discussion and support better societal outcomes. It does this by scanning across modes, continents, technologies and socio-economic settings, looking for common threads, points of difference and opportunities to make a difference. The book should appeal to prospective post-graduate students, professionals in transport and related fields, and those interested in better places and good discussions.

A Research Agenda for Evaluation

A Research Agenda for Evaluation
Author: Peter Dahler-Larsen
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1839101083

This unique Research Agenda addresses salient current issues in evaluation research, offering a broad perspective on the role of evaluation in society.

A Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow Violence

A Research Agenda for Geographies of Slow Violence
Author: Shannon O’Lear
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-06-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 178897803X

This timely Research Agenda highlights how slow violence, unlike other forms of conflict and direct, physical violence, is difficult to see and measure. It explores ways in which geographers study, analyze and draw attention to forms of harm and violence that have often not been at the forefront of public awareness, including slow violence affecting children, women, Indigenous peoples, and the environment.

Innovation in the Public Sector

Innovation in the Public Sector
Author: V. Bekkers
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2011-04-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230307523

Addresses issues relevant to an understanding of the innovation journeys on which public organizations have embarked. If public innovation is defined as a necessary condition for establishing meaningful interactions between the government and society what are the relevant issues that may explain successful processes and forms of public innovation?

A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance

A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance
Author: Oksana Mont
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release:
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1788117816

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} Evaluating achievements, challenges and future avenues for research, this book explores how new dimensions of knowledge and practice contest, reshape and advance traditional understandings of sustainable consumption governance.

A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies

A Research Agenda for Management and Organization Studies
Author: Barbara Czarniawska
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2016-08-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1784717029

Managing and organizing are now central phenomena in contemporary societies. It is essential they are studied from a variety of perspectives, and with equal attention paid to their past, their present, and their future. This book collects opinions of the trailblazing scholars concerning the most important research topics, essential for study in the next 15–20 years. The opinions concern both traditional functions, such as accounting and marketing, personnel management and strategy, technology and communication, but also new challenges, such as diversity, equality, waste and cultural encounters. The collection is intended to be inspiration for young scholars and an invitation to a dialogue with practitioners.