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  • Public Utilities, Second Edition: Old Problems,

    Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Public Utilities, Second Edition: Old Problems,

    Book SynopsisA thoroughly updated introduction to the current issues and challenges facing managers and administrators in the investor and publicly owned utility industry, this engaging volume addresses management concerns in five sectors of the utility industry: electric power, natural gas, water, wastewater systems and public transit. Beginning with a brief overview of the historical development of the industry, the author examines policy issues including the consequences of dealing with deteriorating infrastructure, an aging workforce, climate warming, funding for repair and replacement of facilities, and the demands for meeting the needs of a growing population. In addition to reviewing issues related to various management tasks, he includes chapters on physical and cyber threats and management ethics, liberally laced with real-life examples of utilities' dealings with these challenges. Many tables, figures and boxes expand on key points from the text.Accessible and comprehensive, this thoughtful exploration of the various issues facing administrators and operators in public utilities in the new century will prove a useful overview for students of business and economics, utility staff, and directors of local utility governing boards.Trade Review'David McNabb's Public Utilities book is an excellent and extremely valuable source for understanding the fundamental issues and problems of the rapidly evolving public utilities sector. It's useful for academics, policymakers, and practitioners to gain insights into how to manage and cope with the numerous and unprecedented challenges facing the industry.' --Chung-Shing Lee, Pacific Lutheran UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Part I Public Utilities: Old Problems 1. Public Utilities: Essential Services, Critical Infrastructure 2. Public Utility Policy Issues 3. Public Utility Regulatory Environment Part II Sectors of the Public Utility Industry 4. Electric Energy Utilities 5. Natural Gas Utilities 6. Water and Wastewater Utilities 7. Waste Collection and Disposal Utilities 8. Public Transit Utilities Part III Public Utility Function Challenges 9. Public Utility Finance 10. Public Utility Pricing and Rate Setting 11. Public Utility Marketing 12. Public Utility Information Systems Part IV Public Utility Management and Operations Challenges 13. Public Utility Governance 14. Public Utility Management 15. Public Utility Operations, Maintenance and Planning 16. Managing the Public Utility Workforce 17. Public Utility Management Ethics Part V Public Utilities: New Challenges 18. Public Utility Environmental Challenges 19. Public Utility Physical and Cybersecurity Challenges 20. Sustainability: The Core Challenge Facing Public Utilities Index

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  • Public Utilities, Second Edition: Old Problems,

    Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Public Utilities, Second Edition: Old Problems,

    Book SynopsisA thoroughly updated introduction to the current issues and challenges facing managers and administrators in the investor and publicly owned utility industry, this engaging volume addresses management concerns in five sectors of the utility industry: electric power, natural gas, water, wastewater systems and public transit. Beginning with a brief overview of the historical development of the industry, the author examines policy issues including the consequences of dealing with deteriorating infrastructure, an aging workforce, climate warming, funding for repair and replacement of facilities, and the demands for meeting the needs of a growing population. In addition to reviewing issues related to various management tasks, he includes chapters on physical and cyber threats and management ethics, liberally laced with real-life examples of utilities' dealings with these challenges. Many tables, figures and boxes expand on key points from the text.Accessible and comprehensive, this thoughtful exploration of the various issues facing administrators and operators in public utilities in the new century will prove a useful overview for students of business and economics, utility staff, and directors of local utility governing boards.Trade Review'David McNabb's Public Utilities book is an excellent and extremely valuable source for understanding the fundamental issues and problems of the rapidly evolving public utilities sector. It's useful for academics, policymakers, and practitioners to gain insights into how to manage and cope with the numerous and unprecedented challenges facing the industry.' --Chung-Shing Lee, Pacific Lutheran UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Part I Public Utilities: Old Problems 1. Public Utilities: Essential Services, Critical Infrastructure 2. Public Utility Policy Issues 3. Public Utility Regulatory Environment Part II Sectors of the Public Utility Industry 4. Electric Energy Utilities 5. Natural Gas Utilities 6. Water and Wastewater Utilities 7. Waste Collection and Disposal Utilities 8. Public Transit Utilities Part III Public Utility Function Challenges 9. Public Utility Finance 10. Public Utility Pricing and Rate Setting 11. Public Utility Marketing 12. Public Utility Information Systems Part IV Public Utility Management and Operations Challenges 13. Public Utility Governance 14. Public Utility Management 15. Public Utility Operations, Maintenance and Planning 16. Managing the Public Utility Workforce 17. Public Utility Management Ethics Part V Public Utilities: New Challenges 18. Public Utility Environmental Challenges 19. Public Utility Physical and Cybersecurity Challenges 20. Sustainability: The Core Challenge Facing Public Utilities Index

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  • A Modern Guide to Networks

    Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Modern Guide to Networks

    Book SynopsisA Modern Guide to Networks identifies five core characteristics of contemporary networks and translates these into ten key pieces of guidance for researchers and practitioners. Arguing that a knowledge–practice gap has emerged due to the lack of contact between network practitioners and researchers, contributors chart a more collaborative future for the field. They identify how research can be effectively translated and implemented to shape the future of social networks.A Modern Guide to Networks highlights the key dimensions of today’s networks, advancing knowledge of how networks operate and how they will function in the future. It showcases the diversity of these networks through extensive case studies, examining experiments in network structure, governance, management, leadership, and evaluation. Combining academic perspectives with practice-based insights, it pushes disciplinary boundaries and provides unique insights into researching and participating in social networks.Providing a state-of-the-art overview of modern networks, it will prove invaluable to academics and researchers in organization studies, public administration and management, and social networks. It will also be a useful resource for practitioners seeking guidance on how to adapt to the rapid evolution of networks.Trade Review‘In this volume, Robyn Keast, Joris Voets, Jack Meek, Christine Flynn and their co-authors highlight an important feature of contemporary social networks that are convened to pursue collective actions for the public good: that all social networks boil down to relationships between people and between people and things (e.g., organizations, infrastructure). By elevating the importance of relationship, they necessarily define the essence of a network as a set of practices that have, as they note, been an essential, if not the essential feature of human civilization, and certainly core to the practice of public administration since the dawn of organized and intentional collective action. The chapters in this volume examine contemporary cases through a focus on relationships and underscore that networks can, when fostered with integrity, emotional and cultural intelligence, and deep concerns for public value and public values, enhance the resilience of communities and whole societies. This is an important contribution to the fields of network governance and management because it demonstrates the importance of reflective practice to the craft of network cultivation.’ -- Christopher Koliba, University of Kansas, US‘It is very timely that the new book A Modern Guide to Networks has been prepared. Engaging with diverse networks is now the norm in large-complex programmes attempting to achieve policy objectives that require a long-term and broader programme of cultural, behavioural, and systematic change. However, readily available information explaining social networks form and function and how to work with and within social networks has been difficult for practitioners of these programmes to access. Consequently, understanding how to work effectively through and with networks is still poorly understood. By taking a practitioner-centric approach, A Modern Guide to Networks will make a much-needed contribution to translate the science of social networks so that it is accessible to practitioners and will support these programmes to be more effective and meet the modern social and environmental challenges facing local, national, and global communities.’ -- Niall Connolly, Queensland Government, Australia‘This volume examines networks in the modern world, using an excellent and diverse set of contextual chapters and empirical cases from around the globe. It features a fascinating review of these case chapters by academics and practitioners, culminating in a meta-analysis of insights on network dimensions. This novel approach to bringing together academia and practice yields an impressive synthesis which will be welcomed by everyone interested in the work of networks.’Table of ContentsContents: PART I SETTING THE CONTEXT 1 Introduction: why a modern guide to networks? 2 Robyn Keast, Jack Wayne Meek, Joris Voets and Christine Flynn 2 What are networks? A social, relational perspective 15 Robyn Keast and Jack Wayne Meek PART II CASE EXAMPLES 3 ‘Travelling from 1600 to 2020 in one week’: resilience and leadership in school networks during the COVID-19 pandemic 33 Maria Cucciniello, Daniela Cristofoli and Alex Turrini 4 The role of communication in public health disaster management: city–county engagements during COVID-19 in Los Angeles County 53 Shawn R. Granger and Jack Wayne Meek 5 Strategic planning in a governance network: a life cycle approach 76 Laure Vandersmissen, Marianne Schapmans, Joris Voets and Bert George 6 Integrated service networks in Poland: insights from the delivery of social assistance in two cities 96 Piotr Modzelewski, Robyn Keast and Geoff Woolcott 7 ‘Coopetition-based’ network governance – mechanisms and pitfalls: the example of the German rehabilitation industry 123 Ingo Bode 8 A network analysis of a metropolitan affordable housing network: lessons for policy guidance from the City of Los Angeles 141 Helen Morales and Jack Wayne Meek 9 The role of shared identity in effective governance networks 166 Sinead Shannon and Mary Lee Rhodes 10 Network bandwidth management in public administration: definition and mechanisms 191 Barbara Zyzak 11 A modern network gap: a case for the establishment of formal boundary-spanning organizations to support innovation policy 211 David Noble 12 Global health networks: fostering convergence in women’s and children’s health policy 233 Mary E. Wiktorowicz, Yeonjoo Lee and Peter Tsasis 13 Knowing how, knowing who: the role of a UK online health informatics practitioner network towards system-wide learning 251 Louise Wilson and Marcus Baw 14 Positioning impact and sustainability under the umbrella of cultural accumulation theory: framing a novel conceptualization of modern networks 270 Geoff Woolcott, Robyn Keast, Amanda Scott, Tom Cosentino, Joe Harvey-Jones, Helen Lynch and Bronwyn Richards PART III NEXT PRACTICE AND GUIDELINES 15 Modern network research: insights from network practitioners in addressing the knowing–doing gap 291 Robyn Keast, Jack Wayne Meek, Christine Flynn and Joris Voets 16 Conclusion: the practices of modern networks 313 Robyn Keast, Jack W. Meek, Joris Voets and Christine Flynn Index

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  • Public-Private Collaborations for Long-Term

    Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Public-Private Collaborations for Long-Term

    Book SynopsisThis book offers a unique framework to understand how public institutions and private investors can collaborate to sustain long-term investments (LTIs), with a specific focus on public private partnership for infrastructure, blended finance mechanisms, and impact investing.Offering a holistic approach to long-term investing, which encompasses both infrastructure and corporate innovation and sustainability strategies, chapters explore how collaborations can mobilize resources, overcome market failures, and maximize impacts. Furthermore, it provides a deeper understanding on LTIs, both in terms of the sustainable investment approaches that investors are progressively adopting, and in terms of the main domains of LTIs such as infrastructure and corporate investments in research and innovation, sustainability, and circularity. The book also highlights how LTIs are essential to ensure the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, which represent an institutionalization of the concept of public value.Public-Private Collaborations for Long-Term Investments will be critical reading for policymakers, investors, and managers working in the public and private sectors. The combination of cutting-edge insights and depth of knowledge rooted in the scientific literature will also be beneficial for scholars and students in the fields of public administration and management, infrastructure finance, and sustainability.Trade Review‘The business of business is being redefined before our very eyes: inclusion, sustainability, impact and ESG are now integrated into most investment decisions. Much more needs to be done as Agenda 2030 will not be met until “all hands on deck”. This book can serve as a good starting point for this critical collaboration.’ -- Royston Braganza, Grameen Capital‘This book highlights the importance of activating private capital to close the infrastructure gap and creating stronger collaboration between the public and private sectors. This will help to drive economic recovery in the short-term whilst driving longer-term economic and social outcomes.’ -- Marie Lam-Frendo, Global Infrastructure Hub‘This book is an excellent reference to university and master students, executives and civil servants, academic researchers and many others that are keen to learn more about enabling long-term investments and public-private collaborations.’ -- Iliyana Tsanova, European CommissionTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Iliyana Tsanova, Deputy Director-General - DG Budget, European Commission Preface 1. Public-private partnerships for long-term investments: the context and the framework 2. The journey towards sustainability: corporate social responsibility and sustainable investing 3. Catalyzing wealth toF drive positive social and environmental change: impact investing 4. Unlocking private capital through blended finance 5. Infrastructure as long-term investment: understanding the public-private boundaries 6. Developing infrastructure through contractual public-private partnership References Index

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  • Public Enterprise Revisited: A Closer Look at the

    Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Public Enterprise Revisited: A Closer Look at the

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    Book SynopsisAccording to conventional wisdom, public ownership of industry in post-war Britain led, invariably, to under-performance. This book casts doubt upon this view by showing that, as far as the labour productivity record of the expanding state-owned industries is concerned, this was clearly not the case.The book compares the 1954-79 labour productivity record of 5 expanding public sector industries to that of 24 expanding, capital intensive, mass-production industries in the British private sector. The author shows that the public sector industries' labour productivity growth was significantly faster than that of the private sector industries. Strikingly, he also finds that the state-owned industries were narrowing their productivity gap with their US counterparts at a significantly faster rate than the private sector industries. Dr Iordanoglou concludes that it is possible that public ownership had - in the historical period investigated - a long-term positive effect on these industries.This book will be of great interest to scholars of industrial economics, public sector economics and economic history.Trade Review'Iordanoglou has carried out a very significant piece of work. His basic idea of comparing the growth rate of productivity in the public and private sectors over a 25-year period provides a very useful method of approaching the bigger question of the relative efficiency of public enterprise . . . The book deserves wide distribution.' -- John Calvert, Labour / Le Travail'The merits of the work include a critical examination of the conventional wisdom that British nationalised companies 'failed' and the rejection of this standard view; the use of a highly original method, based on historical evidence, to examine the productivity performance of British industries; scrupulous treatment of the industrial statistics and a quite exemplary, path-breaking, approach to international productivity comparisons; a theory of industrial performance which makes full use of the latest theory, while situating industries in their social and political context.' -- John Grahl, University of North London, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Selection of the Sample 3. The Intertemporal Labour Productivity Comparisons 4. US–UK Labour Productivity Comparisons 5. Questions of Interpretation Appendices: A. Selection of the Sample: Technical Background B. Measurement of the Intertemporal Output Indices C. Measurement of the Employment Indices D. International Labour Productivity Comparisons Bibliography Index

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  • On Creating Competition and Strategic

    Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd On Creating Competition and Strategic

    Book SynopsisThis book examines the ongoing transformation of public utilities, also known as network-based industries, in Western Europe and the United States. Examples are telecommunications, energy, and water distribution. Most of these network-based industries were until recently natural monopolies. Over the last two decades national governments have embarked upon privatization, deregulation and liberalization of their public utilities. The contributors in this volume examine the many related aspects, including: key characteristics and regulation of network based industries the emerging EU regulatory framework corporate strategies, industry dynamics, and organizational performance case studies from the telecommunications and water industries engineering competition versus engineering regulation. This book provides a non-ideological and multidisciplinary overview of recent views and experiences with the liberalization, privatization and regulatory reform of public utilities in Europe and the United States. As such it will be of interest to scholars and researchers of institutional economics, and organizational studies, as well as regulators, policymakers and consultants involved in both studying and governing network-based industries.Trade Review'The introductory chapter by the editors is extremely wide-ranging and therefore very useful for any reader not yet introduced to the manifold intricacies of this topic. What is remarkable about this chapter is that three aspects are dealt with at the same time: the driving forces of the reform of network industries, the economics of pro-competitive regulation of them, and the political and institutional traps/complexities of this process. If this were not enough, it is done with a view on both the US and Europe. The remainder of the book shows, sometimes with painstaking detail, not only how difficult it is for regulators and their political masters but also for incumbents and not just for new entrants, as is always stressed. It shows the tricky question of extending reforms to the water and sewage sectors, how complex state/company interactions are in the first and later stages of reform and how hard it is to design 'regulation' properly in the second generation.' -- Jacques Pelkmans, College of Europe, Bruges and Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Making Markets and Controlling Competition: Regulatory Reform in Public Utilities Part I: Perspectives on Engineering Competition 1. Engineering Competition: The European Approach 2. The Role of Regulation in an Era of Partial Competition Part II: Empirical Overview Papers 3. The Dynamics of Regulation: Performance, Risk and Strategy in the Privatized, Regulated Industries 4. The Privatization of Infrastructures in the Theory of the State: An Empirical Overview and a Discussion of Competing Theoretical Explanations Part III: Country/Sector Studies 5. Policies for Open Network Access 6. Liberalization and Technical Change in Finland 7. A Waterloo of Utility Liberalization? How Great Deregulation Expectations were Dashed by the Dutch Water Industry in the 1990s Part IV: Conclusion 8. Engineering Competition – Or Engineering Regulation? Index

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  • The IPO Decision: Why and How Companies Go Public

    Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The IPO Decision: Why and How Companies Go Public

    Book SynopsisThe IPO Decision is an exciting new book that clarifies how the initial public offering (IPO) process actually works. It separates fact from fiction and imposes a logical structure on the most up-to-date IPO-related research. All major topics pertaining to the going-public process are included: IPO timing, the financial, strategic, and corporate governance benefits and costs of public ownership, corporate restructuring, valuation, the role of the investment bank in the primary and secondary markets, the optimality of IPO mechanisms (book-building vs. auctions), analyst coverage, and the long-run performance of IPOs. IPOs garnered unprecedented positive attention in the 1990s for their spectacular returns and central role in entrepreneurial activity. Subsequent revelations of unscrupulous IPO allocation and promotion practices cast a less favorable shadow. The latest significant event in the IPO market is Google's unconventional use of an auction for its offering. Public discussion and debate about these developments has often taken place in an information vacuum, leading to misunderstandings and false conclusions.Unparalleled in its scope, The IPO Decision presents the findings from theoretical and empirical research in a rigorous yet accessible manner. In doing so, it develops the intellectual foundation necessary for a constructive dialogue about reforming the IPO process. Scholars, students and industry professionals interested in the economics of IPOs will find this volume a comprehensive and engaging addition to their library.Trade Review'Because of its scope and detail, The IPO Decision would be a useful addition to an academic library serving a finance program or that has a financial services library. Public librarians might consider this book if they have a large constituency of sizable private businesses of finance students.' -- Janet Hartman, Research Librarian, William Blair & Co, Chicago, Business Information Alert'This volume certainly belongs in undergraduate libraries. Faculty who teach courses in the economics of finance can use the book as a reference and as a guide for students working on papers on the economics of initial public offerings (IPOs). Draho summarizes the extant literature on all aspects of the subject. For example, a student interested in the valuation process underlying initial public offerings receives a well-written overview of the approaches used, including both discounted cash flows and real option analysis. Students are also guided to the relevant literature on the subject. . . a useful resource for beginning research on this topic. Highly recommended.' -- W.S. Curran, Choice'Jason Draho's The IPO Decision is a clear, well organized, and especially well researched book on the IPO environment, process, and stock price results.' -- Roger G. Ibbotson, Yale University and Chairman, Ibbotson Associates, Inc., US'Even more important in the post-Internet bubble world, The IPO Decision by Jason Draho provides a critical, in-depth and practical perspective on the crucial terms and factors that influence the IPO process. From the company that plans to go public (or its professional advisor) to the buy side or sell side investment banker - the book provides a roadmap for all professionals associated with the IPO process.' -- Ross Barrett, President and Co-Founder, VC Experts, Inc., New York, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. IPO Timing and Information 3. Financing Options and Costs 4. Strategic Behavior 5. Control, Monitoring and Governance 6. The External Market: An International Comparison 7. Corporate Restructuring 8. Valuation 9. Preparing for the IPO 10. IPO Mechanisms: Allocations and Pricing 11. The IPO Aftermarket 12. Post-IFO Financing 13. Long-run Performance 14. Final Thoughts References Index

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    Book SynopsisThis book takes the reader through the process to plan, deliver, and follow-up a weeklong Lean Quality Improvement event, usually termed a Rapid Improvement Event' or Rapid Process Improvement Workshop (RPIW).' Drawing on the experience of conducting over 100 of these workshops, the book gives readers the information to plan and run their own event. It describes how RPIWs fit in to wider improvement processes and how the reader can maximize these processes in their own organization.These weeklong improvement events are popular in health and social care, but there are no textbooks available to support them. There are several books that describe the use of shorter Kaizen events in health care, but none that describe the process of delivering weeklong events. The events have a rhythm specific to the one-week format, and the book seeks to help people to make use of best practice and to avoid common problems.Based on the experiences of the authors, this book includes an intTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. About the Authors. Copies of Materials Used in the Book. 1 Structure of the Book. 2 Lean in Health and Social Care Services. 3 Beginning an RPIW. 4 Preparatory Work. 5 Process Mapping with a Team. 6 Planning Meetings. 7 RPIW, Day Minus One. 8 Day One. 9 Day Two. 10 Days Three and Four. 11 Day Five. 12 After the RPIW. 13 Organisational Context. 14 Conclusions. Index.

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    Book SynopsisThe need for effective fundraising in the arts has never been more acute. Specialist yet accessible, Fundraising in the Creative and Cultural Industries is designed to provide strategic and practical support to individuals needing to lead or develop fundraising in their organisations. Part One explores theories of leadership and change, as well as managing fundraising in a crisis, most notably the impact of COVID-19 on cultural organisations globally. It introduces readers to specific academic frameworks and concepts from arts management, business and entrepreneurship studies â which readers can use to analyse their own situations â and provides insight via real-world case studies. Part Two explores the practical application of fundraising. Readers can begin their journey to becoming a fundraising expert, starting from the basics of fundraising to a broad understanding of the different means and channels through which income can be raised for arts and cultural organisaTrade Review"Unprecedented financial and emotional losses during the global pandemic have changed the funding landscape. This book is timely as it outlines the reliance on fundraising which has occurred as government pandemic subsidies dry up. The short, focused case studies in this book illustrate how to make best use of fundraising strategies to ensure your arts organisation survives and thrives. The book is much needed in the disrupted creative industries where pragmatic fundraising approaches and alternate fundraising perspectives are essential for survival." Ruth Rentschler, UniSA Business, University of South Australia.Table of Contents1. Integrating Fundraising Strategy with Business Planning 2. Implementing an Organisation-wide Approach to Fundraising 3. Strategic Partnerships for Fundraising Success 4. Successful Delivery of Fundraising 5. Enterprise in Fundraising 6. Fundraising at Times of Crisis 7. Introduction to Fundraising Approaches 8. Writing Effective Fundraising Applications 9. Selling to Business in a Changing Landscape 10. Cultivating Individual Giving and Effective Stewardship 11. Using Digital for Creative Fundraising

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