Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government

Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government

by M H Moore (Author)

Synopsis

A summation of 15 years of research on what public-sector executives should do to improve the performance of public enterprises. Cases are used to illuminate their broader lessons for government managers.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 402
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 06 Mar 1997

ISBN 10: 0674175581
ISBN 13: 9780674175587
Book Overview: This is at once the most broadly thoughtful and specifically useful book I've read in the field of public management. -- Hale Champion, Former Undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Media Reviews
If you haven't been able to slip out to Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government for the latest in public management training, Mark Moore's book...will bring you up to speed. National Journal [An] important argument to counter the image of the rigid bureaucrat, with case studies of youth services, a library, a redevelopment project, a police department, and a housing authority. Future Survey Basing extended and thoughtful analyses and comments on a series of cases in managing an assortment of federal, state, and local public agencies (libraries, the EPA, a department of child and youth services, a redevelopment agency, the Center for Disease Control, a housing authority, and a police department), Kennedy School professor Mark Moore seeks to expand the traditional bureaucratic conceptions of public administration. ARNOVA News
Author Bio
Mark H. Moore is Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Herbert A. Simon Professor of Education, Management, and Organizational Behavior at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.