Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations : Concepts, Schools and Contemporary Issues (Paperback)

1.Introduction: Our Core Argument and Overview 2.Schools of Strategic Management and their Implications for Contemporary Public Services Organizations Part I: From Structure to Culture 3.Further Proliferation of Schools of Strategic Management Part II: The 1980s Onwards 4.Strategy as Process: A Review and Prospective Agenda 5.Strategy Making and Governance in The Third Sector 6.Framing the context: Managing strategically public services organisations in different politico-administrative ‘houses’ 7.Strategy and Performance 8.Strategic management, the quest for excellence, and the ‘best practices’ research in public management 9.Conclusion: Strategic management in the public sector as both ‘science’ and ‘art and profession’