Rethinking Public Service Delivery - Managing with External Providers

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 management. This major new text assesses the ways in which public sector organizations can improve their services and outcomes by making full use of the alternative ways of getting things done.>

List of contents

Introduction
Mapping The Changing Shape of Public Service Delivery
Benefits and Costs: What Government Organizations Seek From External Providers
Motivations and Mechanisms: What External Providers Seek From Government Organizations
Outsourcing and Contracting to Other Organizations
Partnering and Collaboration with other organizations
Calling on Volunteers
Regulatees as Contributors to Social Outcomes
Clients as Co-producers
Managing in Multi-Party Networks of Providers
A Contingency Framework for Decisions about Externalization
Organizational Capabilities for Managing External Provision
Conclusion.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Alford, John Alford, John O&apos Alford, John O''flynn Alford, Alford John, ALFORD JOHN O FLYNN JANINE, Janine flynn, Janine O'Flynn, O'Flynn Janine
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2012
• EAN: 9780230237940
• ISBN: 978-0-230-23794-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: The Public Management and Leadership Series; Public Management and Leadersh; Public Management and Leadersh; The Public Management and Leadership Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Public Management, Political Science and International Studies, Public Policy, Public administration / Public policy