Developing management systems to implement priority projects: Brazil in action

A 3-part teaching case study

Syracuse/NASA program: A historical critique: Multidisciplinary studies in management and development programs in the public sector

A historical critique is presented of the Syracuse/NASA program on management and development programs. Brief summaries are included of each of the major projects undertaken, including identification of the principal investigators and the university departments and disciplines involved

Multidisciplinary studies in management and development programs in the public sector - Publications list

Multidisciplinary studies in management and development programs in public sector - bibliographie

Multidisciplinary studies in management and development programs in the public sector Semiannual report, 1 Jan. - 30 Jun. 1970

Multidisciplinary studies in programs in the public sector, including project management, NASA technology transfer, national decision making, and space regulation

Multidisciplinary studies in management and development programs in the public sector Semiannual report, 1 Jul. - 31 Dec. 1969

Multidisciplinary research in management, technology dissemination, decision making, and government and university cooperatio

Explaining system-level change in welfare governance: the role of policy indeterminacy and concatenations of social mechanisms

The paper argues that a certain level of indeterminacy in policy design may be a factor facilitating rather than hindering system-level change in welfare governance arrangements, provided it is combined with the triggering of specific concatenations of social mechanisms shaping the dynamics of the change process. The argument is illustrated by an analysis of a case of systemic change in chronic disease management occurred in the Italian region of Lombardy over 2016-2017, when a radically novel governance of chronic disease for the ten-million population was put in place (a health care system that was later tested to its limits by the COVID-19 pandemic outburst which reached dramatic intensity in this region). This represented a major change in a key area of social and health policy. We claim that such change processes may be studied by means of the conceptual tools of social mechanisms. The analysis of social mechanisms represents a lively research agenda for explaining change in public governance and public policy

Intelligent Administration: Productivity, Transparency and Management of Change

I am honored to be here today to contribute to the inauguration of the second course on intelligent administration, whose particular emphasis this year, is upon the administrative values of productivity and transparency and on the process of managing change……When I first started to teach and consult in Spain, back in the late 1980s, I enjoyed many advantages being a foreign expert. Within Spain, few individuals had a deep understanding of results-oriented public management. Only a few did. These individuals wanted access to information and analysis about foreign practice, which was something I could provide. They also found it convenient to have an academic and a foreigner to reinforce their own themes in seminars on modernizing the public administration. I mention this because I strongly suspect that, in 2005, I no longerpossess any strong advantage in being a foreign expert. It is not because my intellectual capital is less than it was 10 or 15 years ago. It is because Spain has changed……I aim to touch upon some of the theoretical foundations of intelligent public administration. Before presenting my substantive comments to you, I will relate a relevant anecdote

Public management as a design-oriented professional discipline

While public management has become widely spoken of, its identity and character is not well-defined. Such disparity is an underlying problem in developing public management within academia, and in the eyes of practitioners. In this book, Michael Barzelay tackles the challenge of making public management into a true professional discipline. Barzelay argues that public management needs to integrate contrasting conceptions of professional practice. By pressing forward an expansive idea of design in public management, Barzelay formulates a fresh vision of public management in practice and outlines its implications for research, curriculum develop

Upstream database and digital asset management in variable data printing

This study outlines the upstream database and digital asset management issues for variable data printing. The goal is to clarify what work environment and processes are needed during digital asset and data preparation. A literature review was conducted and complemented with the experiential experience of establishing and using a variable data preparation and testing platform