<title/> A consideration of the previous articles in this themed edition shows a growing recognition of the need to address regeneration management skills in order to implement the important regeneration agenda. Gaps in such skills include leadership especially in the context of the multi agency and...

Purpose – To review the current debates on partnership working and to examine whether a “fitness for purpose” test is an appropriate way of evaluating existing developments. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the conceptual frameworks within which the partnership discourse...

A consideration of the previous articles in this themed edition shows a growing recognition of the need to address regeneration management skills in order to implement the important regeneration agenda. Gaps in such skills include leadership especially in the context of the multi agency and...

Challenging some of the established practices of public policy and administration, which have been called into question by the financial and banking crises of 2008, this title investigates public sector management and the public managers acting in the interests of civil society to get to the...