This Special Issue of the Chair of Public Management's publication series presents some results of a student research seminar. Following Mintzberg's approach of management research, we posed the question, What do public managers really do? when it comes to managing their organizations. The...

This report addresses the use of benchmarking as a management tool in the context of local authority actions towards sustainability management. The growing interest at the European policy-making level in stimulating the use of sustainability management tools and exchange of best practices among...