Owen E. Hughes – Författare

The rise of globalization and heightened debate over trade, protection, competition, and the environment have created unprecedented challenges for businesses and governments worldwide. These are systematically assessed in this important new text.

Strategy is best understood not as a science, but as an art – one of universal applications that transcend situation or historical context. The principles that were successful in war and politics through history can have real and demonstrable applications in business and management. Here, professor of strategy Owen Hughes helps practitioners and students to draw those parallels and to develop a profound and holistic understanding of strategy that will help them plan for, and achieve, success. Describing strategy as an intersection of five facets – purpose, capability, will, terrain and tactics – Hughes draws from colourful and dramatic examples from history, and clearly demonstrates how these tactics might be applied in your own life and work. This book is an ideal strategy text for any practitioner, lecturer or student who tires of familiar strategy frameworks with limited scope.

Introducing the scope and scale of government, competing approaches to the study of management in the public sector, different forms of service delivery and the major topics in the subject such as strategic management, leadership and performance management, this book continues to be a key point of reference for lecturers and students in the field.This leading text has been completely revised and updated throughout. It covers the whole field of public management and administration, offering discrete chapters on the main topics in the field.

Introducing the scope and scale of government, competing approaches to the study of management in the public sector, different forms of service delivery and the major topics in the subject such as strategic management, leadership and performance management, this book continues to be a key point of reference for lecturers and students in the field.This leading text has been completely revised and updated throughout. It covers the whole field of public management and administration, offering discrete chapters on the main topics in the field.

Strategy is best understood not as a science, but as an art – one of universal applications that transcend situation or historical context. The principles that were successful in war and politics through history can have real and demonstrable applications in business and management. Here, professor of strategy Owen Hughes helps practitioners and students to draw those parallels and to develop a profound and holistic understanding of strategy that will help them plan for, and achieve, success. Describing strategy as an intersection of five facets – purpose, capability, will, terrain and tactics – Hughes draws from colourful and dramatic examples from history, and clearly demonstrates how these tactics might be applied in your own life and work. This book is an ideal strategy text for any practitioner, lecturer or student who tires of familiar strategy frameworks with limited scope.

This new edition of a classic text provides a wealth of material on the management andgovernance of the public sector, and explores the great shifts taking place in what is ahotly contested part of society in many regions of the world. Setting out the keytheoretical perspectives on public management, this book will equip you with the keyconcepts and tools that you need to make sense of contemporary public managementfrom different perspectives.Reflecting the latest issues and trends in public management and administration, thisnew edition offers:Examples from a wide range of countries.Increased analysis of the impact of authoritarianism and populism.Coverage of key topics, including strategic management, leadership, performancemanagement, managing services and technology.More inclusion of evidence and evidence-based policy.Additional tables, figures and case study boxes offering the latest research insights.Suitable for use on courses around the world, and for those with no prior knowledge ofthe theory and practice of public management and administration, this fully revised sixthedition is the ideal point of reference for lecturers and students in the field.

This new edition of a classic text provides a wealth of material on the management andgovernance of the public sector, and explores the great shifts taking place in what is ahotly contested part of society in many regions of the world. Setting out the keytheoretical perspectives on public management, this book will equip you with the keyconcepts and tools that you need to make sense of contemporary public managementfrom different perspectives.Reflecting the latest issues and trends in public management and administration, thisnew edition offers:Examples from a wide range of countries.Increased analysis of the impact of authoritarianism and populism.Coverage of key topics, including strategic management, leadership, performancemanagement, managing services and technology.More inclusion of evidence and evidence-based policy.Additional tables, figures and case study boxes offering the latest research insights.Suitable for use on courses around the world, and for those with no prior knowledge ofthe theory and practice of public management and administration, this fully revised sixthedition is the ideal point of reference for lecturers and students in the field.

Owen E. Hughes investigates governance across sectors including corporate, international and political governance, arguing that governance, as a general concept and an operational system, is in crisis. Hughes reasons that the crisis is in governance in general, in how societies run themselves, in how companies are run and how international organizations are run.This critical book examines the ways in which governance enables the smooth running of these societies, companies and organizations, from sub-national to international levels, and how the setting up of structures or institutional arrangements can impact this. These structures, institutions and arrangements are explored from legal, ethical and behavioural perspectives to provide a well-informed introduction to the crisis of governance. The book further examines debates over the facts, lies, science and policies behind governance, scrutinising the conflicts between democracy and autocracy in governance.The Crisis of Governance will be a beneficial resource for both undergraduate and graduate courses in public administration and management. Academics, students and scholars interested in public affairs, international politics and corporate economics will also find value in this timely book.