In this book, internationally renowned scholars and practitioners elaborate on political as well as managerial questions, e.g. how to make overriding Public Governance changes the 'guiding model' for a now needed stronger strategic approach. More specifically, their focus is on how moves towards a re-positioning as an enabling authority are to be made drivers for adapting management systems across all levels. In accordance with present developments, the authors explain how changes in the overall governance structure have to be used to adapt leadership practices in a more output-oriented or even entrepreneurial fashion. Overall, the underlying idea is to provide some further basics for a public sector type of a design-oriented management science.

Rainer Koch is Professor of Public Management at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the Helmut-Schmidt-University, University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany. John Dixon is Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Faculty of Social Science and Business of the University of Plymouth, United Kingdom.