This textbook is the first to examine how new trends such as “radical innovation”, “co-creation” and “potentialization” challenge fundamental values in the public sector.
The authors bridge traditional public management approaches that tend to exclude social and societal problems, with broader social theories apt to capture new dilemmas and challenges. The book shows how the effects of new forms of managerialism penetrate the state, local governments, welfare institutions as well as professional work and citizens’ rights. It facilitates a discussion about how basic values are put at stake with new reforms and managerial tools.
The book is ideal for postgraduate students in the area of public policy and public management with an interest in managing and leading public administration units and welfare institutions.
Table of Content
Introduction;
Keeping the future open;
The impossibility of governing society;
From bureaucracy to potentialization;
Welfare organisations as infinite potential;
Searching for possibilities between disciplines and codes;
From contract to partnership;
The playful employee;
Citizens as a resource;
The potentiality state;
Conclusion: Toward a Premiseless Management Philosophy.
About the author
Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen is Professor of Political Management at the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
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