Strategic Changes and Organizational Reorientations in Local Government

A Cross-National Perspective

Nahum Ben-Elia editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:1st Jan '96

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Global, national and subnational change (political, economic, social and demographic) are forcing local governments to search, reactively or proactively, for alternative organizational patterns and management styles. This book explores different approaches toward local government reorientation in selected Western countries as well as the 'reinvention' of local government in Eastern Europe. Eight national case-studies (U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, Norway, Israel, the Czech Republic and Russia) provide the empirical basis. From a theoretical point of view, the book exposes three main critical factors: the range of policy options facing local governments (strategic choice), their organizational capabilities to cope with major environmental shifts (strategic capabilities), and their capacity for organizational learning (including programmed experimentation, innovation and creativity).

ISBN: 9781349243457

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 227g

160 pages

1st ed. 1996