Handbook on Strategic Public Management

Edited by Carsten Greve, Professor, Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Tamyko Ysa, Professor of Strategy and Public Management, ESADE Business School, Spain

‘Ever since I wrote Creating Public Value, I have had to argue with my academic colleagues about whether the idea of “strategic public management” could be considered a legitimate academic field that should attract attention from researchers, teachers, and practitioners who were interested in developing the concepts and pedagogies that could enable public officials, and more broadly, public leaders, to do better in mobilizing and directing private and public assets towards the achievement of freer, more prosperous, more secure, more tolerant, and more just societies. This Handbook on Strategic Public Management by Carsten Greve and Tamyko Ysa provides a resounding “yes!” to that question, and goes on to explain what this subject is, and – more significantly, why it is important, and how it can be taught! I am very glad it has been written since it shows the breadth of scholarship focused on this idea, along with the depth and precision of the analytic concepts associated with the larger idea. I recommend it heartily to those who wish to understand the internal logic and potential utility of this field, and to develop it further both in theory and in practice.’

• Contents:PART I THE FIELD: STRATEGY, PUBLIC VALUE AND THE STATE1 Introduction to the Handbook on Strategic Public Management 2Carsten Greve and Tamyko Ysa2 Strategic management and the study of public agencies:a historical overview 10Ewan Ferlie3 Finding a role for design-oriented practice in strategic publicmanagement: a conceptual engineering approach 26Michael Barzelay4 Strategy at the state level 47Alasdair Roberts5 Is strategy possible in a federal system? 63Donald F. Kettl6 The strategic state: a case study of devolved government in Scotland 75Ian C. ElliottPART II CHALLENGES, APPROACHES AND NEW SOLUTIONS7 Public value governance and strategic public management 92John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby and Bill Barberg8 Strategic public management in crises 114Per Lægreid and Lise H. Rykkja9 Cross-fertilisation of design labs and strategic public management 133Christian Bason10 Magic PILs to cure the ills of public management? The rise ofpublic innovation labs as design-for-policy entrepreneurs 147Emma Blomkamp and Jenny M. Lewis11 A public innovation strategy from the frontline: everyday innovation 165Anne Reff Pedersen, Vibeke Kristine Scheller and Ditte Thøgersen12 What a democratically anchored public administrator needs tounderstand about artificial intelligence and strategic management 178Christopher Koliba and Emma SpettPART III REFLECTIONS ON THE WAY FORWARD:STRATEGICALLY ACTING PUBLICORGANIZATIONS FOR VALUE CREATION SYSTEMS13 Strategic planning: the way forward 196Bert George, Rowie Huijbregts, Maria Tiggelaar, LaureVandersmissen, Sven Vanhengel and Bishoy Louis Zaki14 Business model innovation and the financial dimension ofstrategy in the public sector 211Kuno Schedler15 The individual public manager as a strategic actor in relationto the organizational environment 227Kurt Klaudi Klausen16 Strategic public management and the role of senior executives:the case of Australia 238Linda Colley, Shelley Woods and Brian W. Head17 Trust-based public management: conceptualization and lessonsfrom the Swedish trust reform 260Louise Bringselius18 Emerging ideas for strategic public management: strategizingcollaborative governance 280Tamyko Ysa and Carsten GreveIndex