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Innovation is promoted to improve performance and increase the
quality of services provided by public service organisations.
Managing public services innovation provides the first in-depth
exploration of innovation and the management of innovation in the
housing association sector. Drawing on longitudinal case studies
and data sets, including the Housing Corporation's Innovation and
Good Practice database, Managing public services innovation:
indicates that housing associations have innovative capacity and
classifies innovation in the sector; identifies the 'innovative
housing association' and its key characteristics; explores the way
innovation has been managed in housing associations making
recommendations for best practice; develops techniques to develop
evidence-based policy in the housing association sector; discusses
the implications of innovating in regulated public service
industries. Managing public services innovation is essential
reading for housing industry and public management professionals,
policy makers and academics in housing, business and public
management departments.
Public services touch the majority of people in advanced and
developing economies on a daily basis: children require schooling,
the elderly need personal care and assistance, rubbish needs
collecting, water must be safe to drink and the streets need
policing. In short, there is practically no area of our lives that
isn't touched in some way by public services. As such, knowledge
about strategies to improve their performance is central to the
good of society. In this book, a group of leading scholars examine
some of the most pressing issues in public administration,
political science and public policy by undertaking a systematic
review of the research literature on public management and the
performance of public agencies. It is an important resource for
public management researchers, policy-makers and practitioners who
wish to understand the state of the field and the challenges that
lie ahead.
The performance of governments around the globe is constantly in
the spotlight, whether as a celebration or indictment of their
activities. Providing evidence on strategies to improve the
performance of public agencies is therefore essential to the
practice of public management. Originally published in 2006, this
important contribution to the debate explores issues of
measurement, research methodology, and management influences on
performance. It focuses on three key questions: what approaches
should be adopted to measure the performance of public agencies?
What aspects of management influence the performance of public
agencies? As the world globalizes, what are the key international
issues in performance measurement and management? In examining
these questions, the contributors debate both methodological and
technical issues regarding the measurement of performance in public
organizations, and provide empirical analyses of the determinants
of performance. The book concludes with groundbreaking work on the
international dimensions of these issues.
Public services touch the majority of people in advanced and
developing economies on a daily basis: children require schooling,
the elderly need personal care and assistance, rubbish needs
collecting, water must be safe to drink and the streets need
policing. In short, there is practically no area of our lives that
isn't touched in some way by public services. As such, knowledge
about strategies to improve their performance is central to the
good of society. In this book, a group of leading scholars examine
some of the most pressing issues in public administration,
political science and public policy by undertaking a systematic
review of the research literature on public management and the
performance of public agencies. It is an important resource for
public management researchers, policy-makers and practitioners who
wish to understand the state of the field and the challenges that
lie ahead.
The performance of governments around the globe is constantly in
the spotlight, whether as a celebration or indictment of their
activities. Providing evidence on strategies to improve the
performance of public agencies is therefore essential to the
practice of public management. Originally published in 2006, this
important contribution to the debate explores issues of
measurement, research methodology, and management influences on
performance. It focuses on three key questions: what approaches
should be adopted to measure the performance of public agencies?
What aspects of management influence the performance of public
agencies? As the world globalizes, what are the key international
issues in performance measurement and management? In examining
these questions, the contributors debate both methodological and
technical issues regarding the measurement of performance in public
organizations, and provide empirical analyses of the determinants
of performance. The book concludes with groundbreaking work on the
international dimensions of these issues.
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