Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • I. Theories and Concepts of Reform, Innovation, and Intervention in Public Management: One Hundred Theories of Organizational Change: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Theoretical Foundations of Policy Intervention
  • Do Goals Help Create Innovative Organizations?
  • Innovation by Legislative, Judicial, and Management Design: Three Arenas of Public Entrepreneurship
  • II. Reengineering, Reform, and Innovation as Design Science: The Roles of Institutions and Political Contexts: Where's the Institution? Neoinstitutionalism and Public Management
  • Assessing Public Management Reform with Internal Labor Market Theory: A Comparative Assessment of Change Implementation
  • Good Budgetary Decision Processes
  • Implementing Mission-Driven, Results-Oriented Budgeting
  • III. The Management of Innovation and Reform: Organizational and Bureaucratic Factors: The Pain of Organizational Change: Managing Reinvention
  • Institutional Paradoxes: Why Welfare Workers Cannot Reform Welfare
  • Contracting In: Can Government Be a Business?
  • IV. Politics, Governance, Reform, and Innovation: Interest Groups in the Rule-Making Process: Who Participates? Whose Voices Get Heard?
  • Dialogue between Advocates and Executive Agencies: New Roles for Public Management
  • Reinventing Government: Lessons from a State Capital
  • Conclusion