Adaptive Public Administration. Managerial and Evaluation Instruments
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https://doi.org/10.4335/15.4.763-784(2017)Keywords:
adaptive public administration, adaptive public management, adaptive capacityAbstract
The adaptive public administration occurs frequently in theoretical and empirical analyses. The concept itself represents the finality of multiple approaches, assessing and operationalizing the impact of the changes induced by internal and external environment on the current status of a public or private organization. The current paper aims the first integrative synthesis of those processes or state-of-the-art, in view to provide a complex framework and vision to the development of more profound future analyses. Our approach sustains the implementation of a conscious and substantiated vision concerning adaptation in public organizations and/or public administration, revealing their specificity, need for improving the managerial and evaluation instruments, as well as multidisciplinary valorisation of various aspects on organisational adaptation.
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Matei, A., Popa, F.M. & Săvulescu, C. (2011) Internalisation of the Values of National Integrity Systems and Governance Performance in Some South-Eastern European States: Significant Aspects and Comparative Studies, Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance, Sophia-Antipolis, France, pp. 285-295.
Matei, L. (2001) Management public, Second edition (București, Editura Economică).
Matei, L. & Matei, A. (2009) Corruption in the public organizations. Towards a model of cost-benefit analysis for the anticorruption strategies, Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 27E, pp. 145-171.
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Mitchell, F. & Mitchell, Ch. (2015) Adaptive Administration: Public Administration and Constant Change, PATimes, USA: ASPA.
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Piaget, J. (1936) Origins of intelligence in the child (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul).
Pollitt, C. & Bouckaert, G. (2000) Public Management Reform: A comparative Analysis (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Quirk, B. (2003) Local government: the adaptive tier of governance, In: Bentley, T. & Wilsdon, J. (eds.) The Adaptive State: Strategies for personalising the public realm (London: Demos), pp. 99-111.
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Scarlett, L. (2013) Collaborative adaptive management: challenges and opportunities, Ecology and Society, 18(3), 26, http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05762-180326.
Shafritz, J. & Russell, E. (2005) Introducing Public Administration, 3th edition (London: Pearson Longman).
Sorgenfrei, M. & Wrigley, R. (2005) Renforcement des capacitiés d'analyse et d'adaptation pour une meilleure efficacité organisationnelle, Praxis Paper, no. 7 (Oxford: INTRAC).
Stankey, G.H. (2003) Adaptive management at the regional scale: breakthrough innovation or mission impossible? A report or an American experience, In: Wilson, B. P. & Curtis, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2002 Fennor Conference on the Environment Agriculture for the Anstraban Environment (Canberra: Anstraban), pp. 159-177.
Strichman, N. & Marshood, F. (2010) Adaptive Capacity and Social Change. Introduction: A conceptual Framework, New England Journal of Public Policy, 23(1), Article 19.
Sussman, C. (2003) Building Adaptive Capacity: The Quest for Improved Organizational Performance. Management Consulting Services (Boston: Sussman Associates).
Titi, V. & Singh, N. (1994) Adaptive strategies of the poor in arid and semi-arid lands: In search of sustainable livelihoods, IISD working paper (Winnipeg: IISD).
Valman, M., Österblam, H. & Olsson, P. (2015) Adaptive governance of the Baltic Sea – lessons from elsewhere, International Journal of the Commons, 9(1), pp. 440–465.
Walters, C. J. (1989) An experimental strategy for ground fish management in the face of large uncertainty about stock size and production, Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 108, pp. 13-25.
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