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Book SynopsisOffering essential interpretations of the surge in recent literature on strategy and public management, this timely and insightful Handbook includes contributions from some of the key figures in the field, focusing on concepts such as strategic management, strategic planning, and strategizing for public purposes.
Providing an in-depth examination of strategic public management as a key topic in public management and governance, this Handbook considers the interconnections between strategy, public value, and the state, and the challenges of strategizing collaborative governance. Chapters discuss the role of design-oriented practices in strategic public management, the rise of public innovation labs, business model innovation, and the financial dimension of strategy in the public sector. It also includes case studies from Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, illustrating the effects of Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the growth of artificial intelligence on strategic public management.
This stimulating Handbook will be essential reading for students and scholars in strategic management, public management, public administration, public policy and politics, and political science. It will also be beneficial for public managers, public administrators, strategizers, local, regional, and national politicians, and network managers.
Trade Review‘Ever since I wrote Creating Public Value
, I have had to argue with my academic colleagues about whether the idea of “strategic public management” could be considered a legitimate academic field that should attract attention from researchers, teachers, and practitioners who were interested in developing the concepts and pedagogies that could enable public officials, and more broadly, public leaders, to do better in mobilizing and directing private and public assets towards the achievement of freer, more prosperous, more secure, more tolerant, and more just societies. This Handbook on Strategic Public Management
by Carsten Greve and Tamyko Ysa provides a resounding “yes!” to that question, and goes on to explain what this subject is, and – more significantly, why it is important, and how it can be taught! I am very glad it has been written since it shows the breadth of scholarship focused on this idea, along with the depth and precision of the analytic concepts associated with the larger idea. I recommend it heartily to those who wish to understand the internal logic and potential utility of this field, and to develop it further both in theory and in practice.’ -- Mark Moore, Harvard University, US
Table of ContentsContents: PART I THE FIELD: STRATEGY, PUBLIC VALUE AND THE STATE 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Strategic Public Management 2 Carsten Greve and Tamyko Ysa 2 Strategic management and the study of public agencies: a historical overview 10 Ewan Ferlie 3 Finding a role for design-oriented practice in strategic public management: a conceptual engineering approach 26 Michael Barzelay 4 Strategy at the state level 47 Alasdair Roberts 5 Is strategy possible in a federal system? 63 Donald F. Kettl 6 The strategic state: a case study of devolved government in Scotland 75 Ian C. Elliott PART II CHALLENGES, APPROACHES AND NEW SOLUTIONS 7 Public value governance and strategic public management 92 John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby and Bill Barberg 8 Strategic public management in crises 114 Per Lægreid and Lise H. Rykkja 9 Cross-fertilisation of design labs and strategic public management 133 Christian Bason 10 Magic PILs to cure the ills of public management? The rise of public innovation labs as design-for-policy entrepreneurs 147 Emma Blomkamp and Jenny M. Lewis 11 A public innovation strategy from the frontline: everyday innovation 165 Anne Reff Pedersen, Vibeke Kristine Scheller and Ditte Thøgersen 12 What a democratically anchored public administrator needs to understand about artificial intelligence and strategic management 178 Christopher Koliba and Emma Spett PART III REFLECTIONS ON THE WAY FORWARD: STRATEGICALLY ACTING PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS FOR VALUE CREATION SYSTEMS 13 Strategic planning: the way forward 196 Bert George, Rowie Huijbregts, Maria Tiggelaar, Laure Vandersmissen, Sven Vanhengel and Bishoy Louis Zaki 14 Business model innovation and the financial dimension of strategy in the public sector 211 Kuno Schedler 15 The individual public manager as a strategic actor in relation to the organizational environment 227 Kurt Klaudi Klausen 16 Strategic public management and the role of senior executives: the case of Australia 238 Linda Colley, Shelley Woods and Brian W. Head 17 Trust-based public management: conceptualization and lessons from the Swedish trust reform 260 Louise Bringselius 18 Emerging ideas for strategic public management: strategizing collaborative governance 280 Tamyko Ysa and Carsten Greve Index
