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This book challenges the widely-held belief that popular narratives
about business are invariably critical. It develops a more nuanced
analytic model of private sector narrative and applies it to 63
recent narrative texts (movies, histories, biographies) produced in
the US dealing with three major industries: information technology,
automobile manufacturing, and financial trading. It identifies
recurring patterns to compare sectors and to analyze their
implications. Negotiating Business Narratives appeals to academics
and practitioners interested in business and society, strategic
management, and contemporary literature and films about business.
A volume in Research in Public Management Series Editor: Lawrence
R. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School Governing Fables: Learning from
Public Sector Narratives advocates the importance of narrative for
public servants, exemplifies it with a rigorously selected and
analyzed set of narratives, and imparts narrative skills
politicians and public servants need in their careers. Governing
Fables turns to narratology, the interdisciplinary study of
narrative, for a conceptual framework that is applied to a set of
narratives engaging life within public organizations, focusing on
works produced during the last twenty-five years in the US and UK.
The genres discussed include British government narratives inspired
by and reacting to Yes Minister, British appeasement narratives,
American political narratives, the Cuban Missile Crisis narrative,
jury decision-making narratives, and heroic teacher narratives. In
each genre lessons are presented regarding both effective
management and essential narrative skills. Governing Fables is
intended for public management and political science scholars and
practitioners interested in leadership and management, as well as
readers drawn to the political subject matter and to the genre of
political films, novels, and television series.
A volume in Research in Public Management Series Editor: Lawrence
R. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School Governing Fables: Learning from
Public Sector Narratives advocates the importance of narrative for
public servants, exemplifies it with a rigorously selected and
analyzed set of narratives, and imparts narrative skills
politicians and public servants need in their careers. Governing
Fables turns to narratology, the interdisciplinary study of
narrative, for a conceptual framework that is applied to a set of
narratives engaging life within public organizations, focusing on
works produced during the last twenty-five years in the US and UK.
The genres discussed include British government narratives inspired
by and reacting to Yes Minister, British appeasement narratives,
American political narratives, the Cuban Missile Crisis narrative,
jury decision-making narratives, and heroic teacher narratives. In
each genre lessons are presented regarding both effective
management and essential narrative skills. Governing Fables is
intended for public management and political science scholars and
practitioners interested in leadership and management, as well as
readers drawn to the political subject matter and to the genre of
political films, novels, and television series.
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Innovation (Paperback)
Mark A. Abramson, Ian D Littman; Contributions by Sandford Borins, Janet Vinzant Denhardt, Robert B. Denhardt, …
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R1,484
Discovery Miles 14 840
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Innovation provides five in-depth studies on the 'state' of
innovation in government today. Jonathan Walters analyzes what he
has learned from studying winners of the Ford Foundation/Kennedy
School Innovations in Government awards program. Sandford Borins
examines the five building blocks of innovation. Janet Vinzant
Denhardt and Robert Denhardt tell us how Phoenix created a culture
of innovation within city government. William Eimicke studied San
Diego County, California to find out how innovative programs can be
implemented in a large county government. Scott Tarry presents five
case studies of metropolitan airport authorities and how they
attempted to foster innovation. From these case studies, Mark A.
Abramson and Ian D. Littman discuss what we know about innovation
and what we have learned about fostering, implementing, and
replicating it. They also discuss the relationship between the
innovator and innovation.
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