We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...

In this paper, I explore whether and how New Public Management (NPM) inhibits the long-term sustainability of co-production between non-profit practitioners and service users in the United Kingdom. I show how the key elements of NPM (contracts and competitive tendering, performance measurement,...

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...

Background: This study aims to analyze the relationship between lean practices and orga- nizational performance in a public institution, specifically, a military organization. Methods: The research has a quantitative approach with a descriptive character, having as a sample the members of a...

A confrontation with the blurred meaning of “public management” and “New Public Management” NPM is indispensable before trying whether there is an impact of such concepts on civil service regimes. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the division of public employees between “civil...

Chapter 1 Employee Engagement: What’s the Deal? -- Chapter 2 Nonprofit Organizations -- Chapter 3 Nonprofit Engagement Model -- Chapter 4 Deploying Engagement through Human Resource Practices -- Chapter 5 Volunteer Engagement -- Chapter 6 Board Engagement -- Chapter 7 Community Engagement --...

We present results from a large-scale experimental evaluation of an ambitious attempt to improve management quality in Indian schools (implemented in 1,774 randomly-selected schools). The intervention featured several global “best practices” including comprehensive assessments, detailed...

Recent research on management control and performance measurement and management (PMM) points towards a concern to provide suitable systems in nonprofit organizations (NPOs). However, few attempts have been made to understand these organizations and how their peculiarities influence this...

Public administration and public governance play a crucial role in society today by ensuring that social needs are met. Due to the constantly changing environment, public governance models have transformed many times, creating differences in public governance practices among public...

The adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSAS) is gaining momentum across the world. Greece initiated a general financial management reform program which includes the transformation of financial accounting. The public sector in Greece adopted IPSAS-based standards...

World Compendium of Healthcare Facilities and Nonprofit Organizations is the most comprehensive index of critical information on healthcare facilities and nonprofits in 72 low and lower-middle-income countries as classified by the World Bank. Presented in an easily accessible format and...

When people hear about administrative reforms, Western or developed countries such as the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Japan or Australia are probably the first to come to mind. On the other hand, in the book “the Global Public Management Revolution” Kettl’s narrative...

Many factors including incentive-pay, powerful shareholders, and takeover threats push for-profits managers towards maximizing shareholder value. One of the most striking factors about non-profit firms is that they have no comparable governance institutions, and the only check on managers are...

We establish a novel measurement of nonprofit organization ideology using semantic text analysis and validate it with a large-scale online experiment. On average, health- related nonprofits as well as education-related organizations, including US universities, are the most left-leaning...

This chapter examines collaborative public management (CPM) in the context of the existing, fragmented regional governance structure. In particular, the chapter discusses the limitations of CPM in managing orderly land use planning and intra-regional fiscal inequity due to the inherent tension...

This paper argues that non-profit and for-profit organizations are coequal variants of the general concept of multifunctional organization. A more multifunctional view of an NPO’s or for-profit organization’s environment that does not systematically neglect religious, educational,...

How can countries make sustainable gains in student learning at scale? This is a pressing question for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)--and the developing world more broadly--as countries seek to build human capital to drive sustainable growth. Significant progress in access has expanded...

Public healthcare organizations usually operate under significant financial strain and frequently strive for survival. Thus, in most cases, financial stability is a "holy grail" of public healthcare organizations in general and hospitals in particular. The financial stability itself is partly...

The socioeconomic changes that many countries have been experiencing in recent decades, caused by structural factors or by specific circumstances, where the pandemic crisis of COVID-19 is only the most recent example, have posed challenges to organizations, which present themselves more and more...

The emergency generated by the COVID-19 pandemic has turned a spotlight on the key role of the State in providing public goods and services, while the public sector has returned to the fore as the locus for emergency response and for driving the recovery. However, the State and the public sector...