Setting the stage for a case analysis -- Urban regeneration in Ireland -- Healthcare information systems in Ireland -- Advancing the case for complex adaptive systems in public administration -- The impact of boundaries : identity, community, and place -- The vision thing : the dynamics of...

In their search for empirical credibility, public management researchers may search for topics that lend themselves more easily to experimental methods. This chapter looks at how the use of the experimental method may change the questions asked in the field of public management. Possible...