4e de couv.: Throughout the Pacific, cultural heritage is both a powerful idiom in post-colonial state-making, and a potent mobilizing force in diverse grassroots social movements, many of which have been misunderstood as 'cargo-cults' or 'inventions of tradition' in anthropolog…
"Innovation is a core issue for public services and is a key element of public services reform - particularly in this age of austerity where policymakers urge the need to "innovate to do more with less". This comprehensive and accessible Handbook explores the potential for creat…
Innovation is a core issue for public services and is a key element of public services reform particularly in this age of austerity where policymakers urge the need to innovate to do more with less. This comprehensive and accessible Handbook explores the potential for creating e…
The book's main hypothesis is that power in the Canadian federal government has shifted away from line ministers and their departments towards the central agencies (e.g. Treasury Board, Privy Council Office, Department of Finance, and Public Service Commission). It also argues t…
"La vie au guichet, c'est le travail quotidien de l'adiministration ; un univers fait apparemment de routine et d'anonymat, mais dont les protagonistes ne sont jamais réductibles aux rôles standardisés qu'ils sont censés jouer. Les "usagers" ne viennent pas uniquement chercher c…
The aim of this book is to clarify the ground on which public service scholars, practitioners and advisers stand in relation to values and virtues in public administration. It explores assumptions, the unspoken and unexamined things that are taken for granted in the field of ser…
by Stehr, Nico, Ericson, Richard V.
fromGreen College thematic lecture series
The essays collected in Governing Modern Societies arose from a lecture series of the same name held at Green College, University of British Columbia, in 1997 and 1998.
"As a stand-alone treatment of Organizational Development (OD), this is an excellent supplement to traditional textbooks in the field and is a good addition to readings in organizational behavior and principles of management. Carnevale provides the essentials of OD and more thro…
