State-owned enterprises make up roughly 10 percent of the world economy, yet they are
woefully understudied. This handbook offers the first synthesis of the topic since the 1980s …

Philosophy and Public Administration provides a systematic and comprehensive
introduction to the philosophical foundations of the study and practice of public …

The article addresses two principal questions: how public management reforms develop in a
context of high government turnover, and how, under these circumstances, features of the …

Filosofía y administración pública ofrece una introducción sistemática y abarcadora a los
fundamentos filosóficos, ontológicos y epistemológicos de la administración pública. A partir …

The debate on agencification in the public sector has traditionally overlooked the influence
of space on how autonomy unfolds in practice. Starting with the contention that organizing …

Since the early 2000s, a strand of research works in public management has systematically
resorted to the analysis of social mechanisms (basically as defined in Hedström and …

This chapter is about state-owned organizations' strategy. Using research that we have
conducted on the topic, we reflect on how strategy has evolved in these organizations. We …

The digital transition is a challenge that developed countries are currently facing. The
transition process is associated with different degrees of uncertainty, which are particularly …

Philosophical knowledge may enable a deeper understanding of key issues of public
governance, public administrative systems, and public services management. Bringing …

This paper argues that a certain level of indeterminacy in policy design may be a factor
facilitating rather than hindering system-level change in welfare governance arrangements …