Place Management and Social Capital

ISBN-13: 9783639127225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 140 str.

Martin Stewart-Weeks

Opis

Place management as a framework for public governance is not a new concept. The place management debate reflects many of the more durable themes in the evolution of public management and public policy. One of the new dimensions of the debate is the extent to which place management can deliver a social capital effect. If it can, its value as a major shift in public governance will increase dramatically.The study situates place management in a spectrum of possibilities. To the extent that place management transcends an instrumental definition to challenge the underlying system of governance, it is more likely to deliver a social capital dividend. The study concludes that place management, if it reflects and reinforces the attributes of social capital, it can made a major contribution to public management.A key question is the extent to which place management can be institutionalized as a core and consistent component of public management. The thesis looks at the prospects for the institutionalization process within the context of a "holistic governance" framework.

O autorze

Martin Stewart-Weeks has a background in management consulting
and public policy. Based in Sydney, Australia he has held
senior policy and public management positions at the national
and state level and ran his own consulting company for 15 years.