ABSTRACT The 2007–2008 Global Financial Crisis renewed interest in New Public
Management tools. Privatization and intermunicipal cooperation are the two most common …

Purpose This article aims at shedding light on differences in terms of crisis management
approaches adopted by the Italian government in order to tackle the two most impactful …

IMPACT As an intensive, long-term oriented and deliberative process, strategic planning is
generally viewed as an essential practice in the public sector, yet mostly in relatively stable …

El planeamiento estratégico forma parte del proceso estratégico que hoy en día es llevado a
cabo en la mayoría de las organizaciones públicas o privadas, se trata de la acción de …

IMPACT This article warns that cyclical stocks are affecting the delivery of routine healthcare
services. Planning fails when a shock occurs and policy-makers and managers need to …

Analogies are powerful tools to orient attention to the relevant features of the research
subject. Vision and eyesight is a functional analogy to the examination of strategic …

This article investigates the effects of staffing and employee cutbacks in public safety
agencies in the context of county governments in California, Texas, and Florida (2002 …

This study analyzes practices of performance management (PM) and strategic management
(SM) and their prevalence in Neo-Weberian rule-of-law administrations. Based on data from …

Public administrations are currently engaging in a scenario featured by dynamic social,
economic, political, and technological changes that require prompt responses. Two critical …

This study assesses the effects of financial recovery planning on the budgetary solvency of
US cities. Budgetary solvency is the ability of governments to meet their service …