Organizing Government

Comprising theoretical and empirical perspectives and drawn from international journals with a global focus, Organizing Government, a three-volume set presents the key papers in macro-organizational and micro-organizational studies and their implications on public administration.

Divided into two sections, the first part of this collection adopts a sector-wide focus, concentrating on the issues of governance, politics, markets and competition, regulation and inter-organizational relations. The second section concentrates on management issues in an organizational context, addressing leadership, strategy and change management.

Drawing on experience of both academic and professional spheres, the editors incorporate a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives spanning organizational behavior, organizational theory, human resource management and strategy, forming a resource that will be invaluable to all students of management in the public sector.

Editors' Introduction: Organizing Government

GeorgeBoyne and RachelAshworth

Organizing Government: Volume I

Inter-organizational Relations

In recent years we have witnessed enormous change in the governance and organization of public services, and our first group of articles contribute to the growing debate on organizational form and inter-organizational relationships within the public sector. Our opening two articles provide an overview of the changing governance landscape whilst the remaining articles focus on specific developments in inter-organizational relations. For example, four articles focus on the relationship between the private sector and government, which has developed significantly, largely as a result of the extensive privatization and out-sourcing programmes of the 1980s and 1990s, and the establishment of public-private partnerships. A further set of articles assess the effects of a gradual movement towards network and ...

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