Product Description: Economic individualism and market-based values dominate today's policymaking and public management circles―often at the expense of the common good. In his new book, Barry Bozeman demonstrates the continuing need for public interest theory in government...read more

Product Description: Over the last several decades there has been a growing interest in Research & Development (R&D) policy. This is particularly so in advanced industrialized nations that have adopted science- and technology- based strategies for national economic competitiveness...read more

Product Description: Over the last several decades there has been a growing interest in Research & Development (R&D) policy. This is particularly so in advanced industrialized nations that have adopted science- and technology- based strategies for national economic competitiveness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: La dirección empresarial pública ha surgido como una doctrina separada de la administración pública. Su objetivo es la estrategia antes que los procesos directivos, por lo cual se ocupa de las relaciones entre empresas organizadas y sus intersecciones con la política pública, más que de las operaciones internas de la empresa...read more

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Product Description: A critical issue in research and development (R&D) management is the structure and use of evaluative efforts for R&D programs. The book introduces the different methods that may be used in R&D evaluation and then illustrates these methods by describing actual evaluation in practice using those methods...read more

Product Description: This book offers advice for effectively setting and implementing a strategic agenda in the face of legal mandates, political pressures, and bureaucratic limitations imposed on the public sector. It shows how to use a variety of management activities - including budgeting, gathering information, designing organizational structures, and marketing - as tools for advancing the strategic objectives of a public organization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Reprint. All organizations, whether they be governmental, business, or not-for-profit, are to one degree or another subject to public authority and therefore are all "public" in their basic nature.

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Product Description: Investigates U.S. manufacturing companies' different sources of technological knowledge--from internal research and development to the importation or buying of knowledge.