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    Administrative Systems and Reforms in Europe

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    ‘Since Ferrel Heady's death over a decade ago, comparative public administration badly needed a first-rate, current survey text. Sabine Kuhlmann and Hellmut Wollmann performed an invaluable service by authoring this exemplary, up-to-date European Comparative Public Administration Textbook. I know of none like it on the market today, for its clarity of prose, concise outline of key concepts, as ... Read more

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  • Local Government and Governance in Germany

    Challenges, Responses and Perspectives

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book aims at outlining key political, functional, administrative and financial features of Germany’s local government system and at placing them in a (European) comparative perspective. In pursuing an “institutionalist” approach it focuses on discussing whether, how and why the position and activities of local government in the intergovernmental (“multi-level”) setting have changed vis-à-vis ... Read more

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  • The Sustainable Organization

    How Organizations Address the 17 UN SDGs Using the 3-P-Model

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores topics related to sustainability, including the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and accountability in various activities. It reflects the complex and diverse landscape of sustainability efforts in organizations and the pursuit of SDGs. It emphasizes that achieving global change and making the world a better place isn't a straightforward, linear process but rather a ... Read more

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  • Reading an Unknown Organization

    Leaders in New Roles Thriving in Challenging Environments with the 3-P-Model Mindset

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book focuses on "Organizational Intelligence" and its connection to the Three-Pillar Model, a framework developed by a global community of over 60 professionals from various sectors and published by Springer Nature. The model centers on three vital pillars for navigating the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world of organizational design and leadership: Sustainable Purpose, ... Read more

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  • Three Pillars of Organization and Leadership in Disruptive Times

    Navigating Your Company Successfully Through the 21st Century Business World

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book, written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, explores the transformation of organizations in today’s volatile, uncertain, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. It demonstrates the need to manage organizations in a dynamic way, and to revisit and in some cases reinvent working and leadership styles that seemed appropriate during past decades and centuries. In turn, the book puts forward a ... Read more

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  • Leading International Projects

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    Project managers leading international projects must deliver value and align the project outcomes to the wider strategic goals of the organization. However, they are faced with the challenges of cross cultural communication and behavioural differences, large-scale and technically complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, and slow decision making when speed is of the essence. Leading ... Read more

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  • Transforming Public and Private Sector Organizations

    Implementing Sustainable Purpose, Travelling Organization and Connectivity for Resilience

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The book addresses an explicit demand expressed in a large number of C-Suite interviews: managing significant transformations in the private and public sector. The book describes what types of transformation have to be reflected, why transformations are crucial in our days, the triggers they have, and how they might be best managed from a theoretical and practical point of view – technically and ... Read more

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  • Organization and Leadership in Disruptive Times

    Design and Implementation Using the 3-P-Model

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book follows on the authors’ successful development of the Three-Pillar Model (3-P Model) for organizing and leading in disruptive times. Its focus is on helping the reader to implement the model and providing a wide variety of application cases for these VUCA times (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity), including global crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. The book covers a broad ... Read more

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  • Comparing Public Sector Reform in Britain and Germany

    Key Traditions and Trends of Modernisation

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: This text collects a set of specially commissioned chapters by British and German political scientists as well as experts in public administration and management, designed to present and grapple with the range of the subject in an accessible but sophisticated form. In doing so, the volume seeks to fill the gap perceived to have opened up between the ... Read more

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  • Public and Social Services in Europe

    From Public and Municipal to Private Sector Provision

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents comparative analyses and accounts of the institutional changes that have occurred to the local level delivery of public utilities and personal social services in countries across Europe. Guided by a common conceptual frame and written by leading country experts, the book pursues a “developmental” approach to consider how the public/municipal sector-centred institutionalization ... Read more

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  • Evaluating Reforms of Local Public and Social Services in Europe

    More Evidence for Better Results

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explains the increasing demand for evaluation as a result of the increasing frequency of reforms to local services, influenced by the New Public Management doctrine, the severe austerity policy in many European countries, and the wish to increase quality and reduce costs of public services, especially at the local (sub-national) level. Positioned at the interface of local services and ... Read more

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