Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of some pressing but under-
researched aspects of public leadership. Ten propositions about public leadership are set …

I finished writing this book during a five-week research leave in New York. The apartment we
stayed in was located in a 'not so gentrified'part of Brooklyn. Being confronted with the raw …

The public value framework, with its call for more entrepreneurial activities by public
managers, has attracted concern and criticism about its implicit breaching of the …

Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what does that mean in theory
and practice? This new volume brings together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide …

Traits 76 Behaviours 77 Competencies 77 Emotional intelligence 81 Leadership with
political awareness 82 Overarching competencies 83 The capabilities of leading networks …

The third sector is experiencing a radical shift due to social, political and economic changes
in Europe. Due to these shifts and their implications, the question of leadership has become …

We add new data to the long-standing debate about the interface between politics and
administration, deploying theory and evidence indicating that it varies. It can be either a …

This article examines the relationship between leadership and public value, which is
particularly challenging in a context of explicit contest and conflict. The theoretical framework …

The main goal of this article is to define the characteristics of and to evaluate the three
selected models used to measure the performance of public administration bodies, with an …

Our core argument is that the entrepreneurial school of thought in strategic management as
conceptualized by Mintzberg and colleagues holds explanatory value for advancing …