"While innovation has long been a major topic of research and scholarly interest for the private sector, it is still an emerging theme in the field of public management. While 'results-oriented' public management may be here to stay, scholars and practitioners are now shifting their attention to...

1. Collaboration and design : new tools for public innovation / Christopher Ansell and Jacob Torfing -- 2. Necessity as the mother of reinvention : discourses of innovation in local government / Steven Griggs and Helen Sullivan -- 3. Reconstructing bureaucracy for service innovation in the...

Dies Buch formuliert betriebswirtschaftliche Anforderungen an die Investitionssteuerung und analysiert Rahmenbedingungen staatlicher Investitionsprozesse. Aus der Perspektive des NPM untersuchen die Autoren bestehende Regelungen, verwendete Modelle und Verfahren. Sie stellen Verbindungen zu...

This paper assesses the contribution of country governance structures to resolving the unsettled crowding-in–crowding-out hypothesis of public and private investments and arresting the recent fall of public investment in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Within an Arellano-Bond Dynamic Panel...