Rethinking Public Service Delivery, 9780230237957
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New ways to deliver better public services. But how?

Rethinking Public Service Delivery

managing with external providers

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  • Paperback

    328 pages

  • Release Date

    24 June 2012

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Summary

Rethinking Public Service Delivery: Innovative Approaches and Improved Outcomes

Winner of the 2014 Academy of Management Public-Nonprofit (PNP) Division Best Book Award

Many public services today are delivered by external service providers such as private firms and voluntary organizations. These new ways of working – including contracting, partnering, client co-production, inter-governmental collaboration, and volunteering – pose challenges for public manage…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780230237957
ISBN-10:0230237959
Series:The Public Management and Leadership Series
Author:John Alford, Janine O'Flynn
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:Red Globe Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:328
Release Date:24 June 2012
Weight:386g
Dimensions:235mm x 155mm
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Critics Review

‘There is no other work that I am aware of which brings together so effectively the wide range of lessons we have learned about the consideration, initiation and management of the many new (and not so new) forms of alternative service delivery.’ - John Langford, Canadian Public Administration

About The Author

John Alford

JOHN ALFORD is Professor of Public Sector Management at the University of Melbourne and at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.

JANINE O’FLYNN is Professor of Public Management at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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