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1. e-Governance

   Managing or Governing?

   Edited by Leslie Budd, Lisa Harris

   Series: Routledge eBusiness

   Developing hand in hand with e-Business in its use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), e-Government emerged in the 1990s with the promise of a more accessible, efficient and transparent form for public institutions to perform and interact with citizens. The successes-and some...

   Published December 18th 2008 by Routledge
2. The Rise of the English Regions?

   Edited by Irene Hardill, Paul Benneworth, Mark Baker, Leslie Budd

   Series: Regions and Cities

   This book analyzes devolution as it affects the English Regions, working from the perspective of uneven development, and drawing on the rich tradition of regional geography. Currently, London is the power centre ruling over the other English regions. The first part of the book looks at how this...

   Published October 1st 2006 by Routledge
3. Making Policy Happen

   Edited by Leslie Budd, Julie Charlesworth, Rob Paton

   ‘Policy work’ is increasingly conducted by public managers at different levels of seniority, and in a variety of settings. This significant collection of readings focuses on the discussion of how policy work happens, whether that involves bringing a policy-making process to fruition or the...

   Published June 7th 2006 by Routledge
4. e-Economy

   Rhetoric or Business Reality?

   By Leslie Budd, Lisa Harris

   Series: Routledge eBusiness

   As dot.com became dot.bomb, the hype that surrounded the meteoric growth of the network economy has given way to realism, or even scepticism, about the potential of ICT as a source of new business models. It is now appropriate to reflect critically on the e-economy hype, and to use this as a way of...

   Published November 3rd 2004 by Routledge
5. Global Finance and Urban Living

   A Study of Metropolitan Change

   Edited by Leslie Budd, Sam Whimster

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   This incisive inter-disciplinary text provides a major contribution to the study of finance capital and the metropolis. It is the first authoritative account of the momentous changes in the organisation of finance capital that occurred in the 1980s. But it never contents itself with a mere record...

   Published January 8th 1992 by Routledge