Public Management in Transition : : The Orchestration of Potentiality / / Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, Justine Grønbæk Pors.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Åkerstrøm Andersen, Niels,; Grønbæk Pors, Justine,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

This textbook is the first to examine how new trends such as “radical innovation”, “co-creation” and “potentialization” challenge fundamental values in the public sector. The authors bridge traditional public management approaches that tend to exclude social and societal problems, with broader social theories apt to capture new dilemmas and challenges. The book shows how the effects of new forms of managerialism penetrate the state, local governments, welfare institutions as well as professional work and citizens’ rights. It facilitates a discussion about how basic values are put at stake with new reforms and managerial tools. The book is ideal for postgraduate students in the area of public policy and public management with an interest in managing and leading public administration units and welfare institutions.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Keeping the future open -- The impossibility of governing society -- From bureaucracy to potentialisation -- Welfare organisations as infinite potential -- Searching for possibilities between disciplines and codes -- From contract to partnership -- The playful employee -- Citizens as a resource -- The potentiality state -- Conclusion: toward a premiseless management philosophy -- References -- Index