Public & Nonprofit Management Books

New and Published Books

1. Leadership in the Public Sector

   Promises and Pitfalls

   Edited by Christine Teelken, Ewan Ferlie, Mike Dent

   In view of the approaching age of austerity for the public sector, leadership is likely to continue to become a key theme. This edited volume brings together a host of material from the public sector to analyze the issue internationally. Teelken, Dent & Ferlie lead a team of contributors in...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Privatization of Public Services

   Impacts for Employment, Working Conditions, and Service Quality in Europe

   Edited by Christoph Hermann, Jörg Flecker

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   Public services throughout Europe have undergone dramatic restructuring processes in recent years in connection with liberalization and privatization. While evaluations of the successes of public services have focused on prices and efficiency, much less attention has been paid to the impacts of...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Organizations and the Bioeconomy

   The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences

   By Alexander Styhre

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   The advancement of the life sciences and the technosciences has enhanced the longevity of citizens in the Western world, and half of the generation born in the first decade of the new millennium is now expected to live to the age of one hundred years. In a society with such longevity and affluence,...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. A Complexity Theory for Public Policy

   By Göktuğ Morçöl

   Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy

   Complexity theory has become popular in the natural and social sciences over the last few decades as a result of the advancements in our understanding of the complexities in natural and social phenomena. Concepts and methods of complexity theory have been applied by scholars of public affairs in...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Efficiency and Management

   By Guy Callender

   Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

   It is widely accepted that management concepts such as strategic management, human resource management and management development have a well-defined body of knowledge designed to inform management praxis, however the notion of efficiency has no such body of knowledge to support its application...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Privatisation and Financial Collapse in the Nuclear Industry

   The Origins and Causes of the British Energy Crisis of 2002

   By Simon Taylor

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   A timely contribution and incisive analysis, this is the story of the British experiment in privatizing the nuclear power industry and its subsequent financial collapse. It tells how the UK's pioneering role in nuclear power led to bad technology choices, a badly flawed restructuring of the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Water and Sanitation Services

   Public Policy and Management

   Edited by Jose Esteban Castro, Leo Heller

   Substantially reducing the number of human beings who lack access to clean water and safe sanitation is one of the key Millennium Development Goals. This book argues and demonstrates that this can only be achieved by a better integration of the technical and social science approaches in the search...

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
8. Strategic Finance for Criminal Justice Organizations

   By Daniel Adrian Doss, William H. Sumrall III, Don W. Jones

   Traditionally, the study of financial decision making in law enforcement and criminal justice entities has been approached from the perspective of tax revenues and budgeting that focus only on the past and present. Capital investments of cash flow provide future benefits to all organizations, and...

   Published April 10th 2012 by CRC Press
9. Working in Mental Health

   Practice and Policy in a Changing Environment

   Edited by Peter Phillips, Tom Sandford, Claire Johnston

   A paradigm shift in the ways in which mental health services are delivered is happening – both for service users, and for professional mental healthcare workers. A more influential service user movement, a range of new community-based mental healthcare programmes delivered by an increasing...

   Published March 22nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Electronic Health Record

    A Systems Analysis of the Medications Domain

    By Alexander Scarlat, MD

    An accessible primer, Electronic Health Record: A Systems Analysis of the Medications Domain introduces the tools and methodology of Structured Systems Analysis as well as the nuances of the Medications domain. The first part of the book provides a top-down decomposition along two main paths: data...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Productivity Press