Management training and development (T&D) plays an important part in enabling managers
to deal with complexity and change associated with new public service systems. Using a …

The dwindling government funding of agricultural extension in developing countries and the
call on extension organizations to support farm households' livelihood security initiatives …

'Knowledge equals power'. This final chapter takes as its starting point this declaration made
by the German federal minister for economic cooperation and development, Heidimarie …

Purpose–The purpose of this research is to examine the largely ignored executive
development needs of the reformed twenty‐first century public sector by executive education …

Bringing together stakeholders with different backgrounds and interests to create new
understandings and relationships is essential to advance the sustainable management of …

It has been argued that joined-up working is the solution to many contemporary problems
faced by governments around the world. Recognition of the increasingly multidimensional …

This chapter examines the increasingly fashionable and salient concept of policy networks
as a way of understanding criminal justice policymaking. More broadly, network analysis has …

The UK public sector continues to be subject to a wide range of financial management
reforms, which in turn have major consequences for, and effects on, the scope, provision …

This paper contributes to an understanding of the development of governance networks in
well-defined space-time contexts. The first aim is to highlight features of public-private …

What is the appropriate scope and size of the public sector? The simple answer is, it all
depends. It depends upon the vision of the 'state'to which you subscribe and it depends …