This book describes and compares how semi-autonomous agencies are created and
governed by 30 governments. It leads practitioners and researchers through the crowded …

Strategic Management in Public Services Organizations takes a comparative and
international view on the appropriate use of strategic management models that are affecting …

The task of agencies is often considered to be an important determinant of agency design,
autonomy, governance and control. The evidence for these expectations has, however …

New accountability instruments–performance indicators, audits, and financial incentives–are
expected to replace traditional accountability instruments in NPM reforms. We test this …

Italy became a unitary state in 1861. This chapter provides an overview of administrative
reforms in Italy over the entire period 1861–2020, also drawing on the broad-range …

The creation of agencies has been and still is a widespread trend in the public sector:
governments in many countries often establish semi‐autonomous single‐purpose …

The paper analyzes Hungarian central government agencies in the 2002 to 2009 period.
The most important results and conclusions are as follows. Firstly, a new, two-level concept …

본 연구는 한국 지방 공기업의 비대칭적 원가 행태 (asymmetric cost behavior) 의 존재를
검증하고 결정요인을규명하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 비대칭적 원가 행태는 원가를발생시키는 …

After decades of public or private vertically integrated monopolies, the organisation of the
European rail way sector was re structured. The European Commission has been seeking to …

New accountability instruments–performance indicators, audits, and financial incentives–are
expected to replace traditional accountability instruments in NPM reforms. We test this …