17,576円 Hailed for its timelessness and timeliness, Public Administration in Theory and Practice examines public administration from a normative perspective and provides students with an understanding of the practice of public administration. Combining historical, contextual, and theoretical perspectives...

1,800円 Activisme leeft. Vanuit de visie dat het anders kan, zetten mensen zich op allerlei manieren in voor een duurzame en sociale samenleving. De kans is groot dat jij, in ieder geval in gedachten, een van hen bent. Diep in ons hart willen we namelijk allemaal bijdragen aan een betere wereld. Maar hoe...

16,581円 This book defines what IoT Systems manageability looks like and what the associated resources and costs are of that manageability. It identifies IoT Systems performance expectations and addresses the difficult challenges of determining actual costs of IoT Systems implementation, operation, and ma...

3,315円 Featuring detailed profiles of the Chinese tech companies making waves, the tech sectors that matter most in China's grab for super power status, and predictions for China's tech dominance in just 10 years. The rise of China's tech companies and intense competition from the sector is just beginni...

10,612円 Ever since Max Weber and Frederick Taylor, public organizations have been told that effective practice lies in maximizing rationality through science. Yet science-based management reforms have had only marginal impact on performance. People in entry-level positions possess knowledge from direct e...

7,960円 This volume presents five new studies on taxation and government transfer programs. Alexander Blocker, Laurence Kotlikoff, Stephen Ross, and Sergio Villar Vallenas show how asset pricing can be used to value implicit fiscal debts, which are currently rarely measured or adjusted for risk, while ac...

0円 Foreseeing and planning for all of the possibilities and pitfalls involved in bringing a biotechnology innovation from inception to widespread therapeutic use takes strong managerial skills and a solid grounding in biopharmaceutical research and development procedures. Unfortunately there has bee...

9,948円 This book focuses on issues that are relevant for the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. The depth and the extension of the current political crisis in the area have changed the perspectives of conventional Euro-Mediterranean integration policies. The book provides the grounds for new patterns of an...

1,494円 香港人口密集，興辦糞廁的難度甚高，地主每以臭氣擾人、物業價值受損而反對政府公廁，地產商建的「屎坑」卻持續服務半個世紀。究竟商人運用甚麼策略化解矛盾？政商在城市基礎建設中潛在甚麼張力？環球絲綢市場怎樣左右公廁服務？本書透過政商共謀公廁商品化，探討社會精英運用土地資源在管治上佔有重要角色，為殖民城市...

13,265円 Higher education (HE) is amongst the hardest sectors in which to apply lean. Universities resist change, their organizational cultures being far from the manufacturing environment where lean was born. The way HE organizations are structured, funded, and function globally is idiosyncratic; one siz...

8,290円 This title was first published in 2001. Enhancing the quality of health services remains a key challenge for all health systems, whatever their stage of development. This collection of leading-edge research from Europe and America explores both quantitative and qualitative approaches to identifyi...

10,280円 Digital Government: Managing Public Sector Reform in the Digital Era presents a public management perspective on digital government and technology-enabled change in the public sector. It incorporates theoretical and empirical insights to provide students with a broader and deeper understanding of...