This paper deals with the effect-oriented regional development policy.

This article presents reflections on the transposition of the private-sector concept of Total Quality Management (TQM) to the public sector.

This chapter explores the history of financial management reform in Switzerland, both at the Federal and cantonal levels of government. The chapter first outlines the Swiss system of government and public sector organisation.(...)

As far as reforms in the public sector in general and in government enterprises in particular are concerned, Switzerland is hardly in the vanguard of the OECD's most active countries. The reasons for this can be summarised as follows:(...)

Governments all over the world have discovered the world of social media, for better or for worse. Whereas some of them are making every effort to prevent the unhierarchical and therefore uncontrollable (dissident) opinion-forming process in Web 2.0, others are looking for ways of putting the...