
Ports in a Storm : Public Management in a Turbulent World.
Title:
Ports in a Storm : Public Management in a Turbulent World.
Author:
Donahue, John D.
ISBN:
9780815722380
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On Management and Metaphor -- Sea Change: Rewriting the Rules for Port Security -- Unraveling a Risk-Management Challenge -- PortStat: How the Coast Guard Could Use the PerformanceStat Leadership Strategy to Improve Port Security -- Pursuing Public Value: Frameworks for Strategic Analysis and Action -- The Tummler's Task: A Collaborative Conception of Port Protection -- Toward a Higher Purpose: Captain Englebert Navigates the Choppy Waters of Network Governance -- Improving Port Security: A Twenty-First Century Government Approach -- Calling Publics into Existence: The Political Arts of Public Management -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
In Ports in a Storm a team of Harvard Kennedy School scholars focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management taskenhancing port security across the United States. Their aims are two: to understand how a public manager might confront that complex undertaking, and to explore the similarities, differences, and complementarities of their alternative approaches to public management. The book takes as its pivot point the singular case of U.S. Coast Guard Captain Suzanne Englebert and her leadership of efforts to secure America's ports after the September 11 attacks. The Coast Guard had always been responsible for securing America's ports and coastline. But now it was tasked with safeguarding these critical, complex, and vulnerable assets during a time of war, a job it clearly could not handle alone. Ports in a Storm considers the monumental challenge of driving rapid change in a complex system involving hundreds of private organizations and scores of government agencies with their operations intricately intertwined. The book examines Englebert's actions from varied conceptual vantage points, sometimes critiquing questionable calls but more often celebrating her initiative, creativity, persistence, and skill. The authors use the Coast Guard episode as a testing ground for the eclectic intellectual constructs they have been developing to guide public managers. Instead of starting with theory and searching for examples that fit, they begin with the concrete and then harness scholarship to the service of better practice. And rather than mimic management principles from the business world, they tailor their approach to the very different challenges of managing in a public sector context. The volume allows readers in both the scholarly and practical worlds to see how the theories measure up. Contributors, including the two volume
editors, are Robert D. Behn, John D. Donahue, Archon Fung, Stephen Goldsmith, Elaine Kamarck, Herman B. Leonard, Mark H. Moore, Malcolm K. Sparrow, Pamela Varley, and Richard Zeckhauser.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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