Effective health services form the backbone of health interventions. Accessibility, quality, capacity, organization, availability of human and physical resources and equity in the provision of health services are essential for a healthcare system to deliver desired health and related sustainable...

This doctoral thesis studies the process of innovation adoption in public administrations, addressing the research question of how an innovation is translated to a local context. The study empirically explores Design Thinking as a new problem-solving approach introduced by a federal government...

This paper shows that initial cross-country institutional differences can explain to a substantial extent the relative GDP performance of European countries since 1995, after controlling for the initial level of GDP per capita and government debt. It shows that improving the quality of...

Introduction : strategic leadership in the impact era -- The primacy of mission -- The few strategic concepts that matter -- Count what counts -- Insight and courage -- Your team of teams : building and sustaining a high-performing organization -- Money matters : funding as essential fuel --...

Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword/personal note -- Why managing as mission? -- Mission -- Process -- Managing -- Linking managing, mission and process -- What can come from managing as mission -- Tools -- Bibliography

Social purpose organizations : the third sector of the economy -- Crisis management and organizational change : national kidney foundation -- Implementing organizational change at a VWO : Asian women's welfare organization -- From social enterprise to public sector partner : society for the...

SWD-Schlagwörter: Koproduktion, Bürgerbeteiligung, Governance, Öffentliche Aufgaben. - Freie Schlagwörter (Deutsch): Koproduktion, finanzielle Bürgerbeteiligung, New Public Governance, Öffentliche Aufgabenerfüllung . - Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch): citizen financial participation...

The objective to improve the effectiveness of public administration and governance in the context of cuts in public resources available for supporting public authorities is especially urgent at the time of economic crisis. Cutting payroll for federal executive bodies by 10 per cent is one of the...

Naming and structuring your nonprofit -- Developing your strategic plan -- Developing your initial budget -- Your board of directors -- Your workforce: staff and volunteers -- Fundraising -- Risk management and insurance -- Understanding contracts and agreements -- Marketing your nonprofit --...

Im vorliegenden Band wird das derzeitig praktizierte Versorgungsmanagement im deutschen Gesundheitswesen in Theorie und mit konkreten praktischen Projekten aufgearbeitet, Schwachstellen und Perspektiven deutlich benannt und ein Blick nach vorn in die Zukunft installiert. Die in Deutschland...