Public management as a design-oriented professional discipline / / Michael Barzelay.

"What, fundamentally, is public management? This question is rarely answered clearly and confidently, whether by students of public management or academics in the field. This book answers this question, as its readers come to know why and how public management is a design-oriented professional...

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Place / Publishing House:Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 168 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Preface
  • 1. Encountering design-oriented public management
  • 2. Rediscovering management: Analysis and synthesis
  • 3. Understanding mechanism-intent thinking and analysis in public management
  • 4. Theories of public organizations, design-projects, and professional activities: A public management gallery tour
  • 5. Core knowledge in a professional discipline of public management
  • 6. Design-focused case studies in the professional discipline of public management
  • 7. Managing international cooperation projects for organizational capacity-building:
  • A design-focused case study of the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology
  • 8. Designed, not copied: The making of public management as a design-oriented professional discipline
  • References
  • Index.