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Innovation in the Public Sector
Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2015Why does the public sector innovate, how should the public sector innovate, and, even more basically, should the public sector innovate? These are some of the questions that these contributions explore and to which they provide some salutary answers. Martin Stewart‐Weeks, an independent consultant working at the intersection of government, innovation ...
Stewart-Weeks, Martin, Kastelle, Tim
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Managing Service Quality: An International Journal, 1993
Gives an overview of interest in, and development of, quality management in local government. Outlines the process of transferring quality management to public sector services, highlighting a number of obstacles. Lists a number of external pressures that are forcing significant changes on local authorities.
S. Speller, A. Ghobadian
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Gives an overview of interest in, and development of, quality management in local government. Outlines the process of transferring quality management to public sector services, highlighting a number of obstacles. Lists a number of external pressures that are forcing significant changes on local authorities.
S. Speller, A. Ghobadian
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2008
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an essential role in the economy internationally and above all in Europe, where over 20 million SMEs account for around two-thirds of jobs and half of turnover in the non-agricultural business sectors. SMEs’ contribution to growth and employment, not to mention innovation, makes them key players in the ...
GUALANDRI, Elisabetta, P. Schwizer
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an essential role in the economy internationally and above all in Europe, where over 20 million SMEs account for around two-thirds of jobs and half of turnover in the non-agricultural business sectors. SMEs’ contribution to growth and employment, not to mention innovation, makes them key players in the ...
GUALANDRI, Elisabetta, P. Schwizer
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ERP systems in public sector [PDF]
2014 37th International Convention on Information and Communication Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics (MIPRO), 2014 ERP systems are tended to be implemented in the public sector. In this paper the "industries" of public sector are identified which are suitable for ERP implementation. The systematic review method is used to give an overview of state of the art ERP system implementation in the public sector worldwide in the last five years as well as possible ...
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1985
In this chapter the term ‘public sector’ is taken to include public corporations, non-Departmental public bodies and other extra-Governmental organisations. It does not include the Departments of central Government which we dealt with in Chapters 13 and 14 or the institutions of local government which we shall deal with in Chapter 16.
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In this chapter the term ‘public sector’ is taken to include public corporations, non-Departmental public bodies and other extra-Governmental organisations. It does not include the Departments of central Government which we dealt with in Chapters 13 and 14 or the institutions of local government which we shall deal with in Chapter 16.
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Public Sector Borrowing and the Public Sector Balance Sheet
National Institute Economic Review, 1987In his Budget Statement this year the Chancellor restated his medium-term financial strategy (MTFS) and in particular his objectives for the public sector borrowing requirement (PSBR). He said, ‘Since its inception in 1980 the MTFS has indicated a steadily declining path for the PSBR expressed as a percentage of GDP. We have now reached what I judge to
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CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Management Development Review, 1993The management of change in a high profile public service with more than its fair share of political influences, demonstrates the scale of change possible, given a clear strategy and a strong managerial commitment. This leads to high productivity, quality and value for money, with a strong element of organizational loyalty and ownership of the end ...
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ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR [PDF]
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2009 ABSTRACT**: One is used to hearing harsh statements about inefficient public services. It is not surprising to see public sector performance questioned. What is surprising is that what is meant by performance, and how it is measured, does not seem to matter much to either the critics or the advocates of the public sector.
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The Public Sector and the International Sector
1974Now that we have developed our static theory of the determination of income and interest in an economy without either government economic activity or international trade we need to extend our model to take account of these elements of the problem.
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2018
Economic activity by the state—other than the core activity undertaken by the Civil Service—takes a range of forms which defy easy categorisation. Whereas a public corporation (or a limited company in which the state is a majority shareholder) can clearly be classified as being within the public sector, there have often been grey areas resulting from ...
Roger Mortimore, Andrew Blick
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Economic activity by the state—other than the core activity undertaken by the Civil Service—takes a range of forms which defy easy categorisation. Whereas a public corporation (or a limited company in which the state is a majority shareholder) can clearly be classified as being within the public sector, there have often been grey areas resulting from ...
Roger Mortimore, Andrew Blick
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