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The uniqueness of public sector project management: a contextual perspective
(Sabinet, 2011)
Debates about the differences between management applications in public and private sector settings are prevalent in higher education institutions. Within the context of these debates, higher education service providers ...
Public management and disaster risk reduction: potential interdisciplinary contributions
(Sabinet, 2009)
This article investigates the interdisciplinary nature of Disaster Risk Reduction as an emerging field of study. The development of this field of study is interpreted within the context of the evolution of Public Management ...
Expanding the disaster risk management framework: Measuring the constructed level of national identity as a factor of political risk
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)
Political risk is identified as a dominant risk category of disaster risk management (DRM)
which could negatively affect the success of those measures implemented to reduce disaster
risk. Key to political risk is the ...
Project management: a new service delivery paradigm
(Buro vir Wetenskaplike Tydskrifte / Potchefstroom, 2007)
In ooreenstemming met internasionale tendense in regerings, het die Suid-Afrikaanse Regering se aanvanklike fokus op die ontwikkeling van 'n beleidsraamwerk, strukture en stelsels om uiting te gee aan die waardes en beginsels ...
Managing local government performance: key considerations and challenges
(Sabinet, 2006)
Since local government is the nearest to service users it is expected that it is at the forefront of service delivery. Local government needs to demonstrate that performance is managed, measured and improved on a continuous ...
Towards the construction of knowledge in public governance as field of scientific enquiry
(SAGE, 2014)
Public Governance is a rapidly growing field of scientific enquiry. Therefore academics involved in Public Governance often find it difficult to construct knowledge and to direct the curricula of educational programs and ...
Public administration teaching and interdisciplinarity: considering the consequences
(SAGE, 2014)
Public Administration is a highly diverse and evolving field of scientific inquiry. The study domain is characterised further by often-competing paradigmatic perspectives and seemingly endless teaching modalities. There ...
From policy to projects: a public service value-chain network model
(Kamla-Raj, 2016)
South Africa is characterised by an interdependent, three-sphere system of co-operative government. To foster coordination and co-operation in this system requires alignment of government programmes. Chain thinking provides ...
An integrated service excellence model for military test and evaluation facilities
(Univ. Stellenbosch; Faculty of Militay Science, 2011)
The purpose of this article is to introduce an Integrated Service Excellence Model (ISEM) for empowering the leadership core of the capital-intensive military test and evaluation facilities to provide strategic military ...
An exploration of objectivism and social constructivism within the context of disaster risk
(Emerald Insight, 2016)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand the meaning of social constructivism and objectivism within the context of disaster risk from which disaster risk policy can be analysed. In particular, the paper attempts ...