Governing fables : learning from public sector narratives

Governing Fables: Learning from Public Sector Narratives advocates the importance of narrative for public servants, exemplifies it with a rigorously selected and analyzed set of narratives, and imparts narrative skills politicians and public servants need in their careers. Governing Fables turns to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Borins, Sandford F., 1949- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2011]
SeriesResearch in public management (Unnumbered)
Subjects
Narrative inquiry (Research method)
Public administration > United States.
Public administration > Great Britain.
Organizational change > United States.
Organizational change > Great Britain.
Reference > Research.
Management and management techniques.
Research methods: general.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806616176
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-492-2
Physical Description1 online resource (xiv, 291 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1. Narrative as object and method of study
  • Chapter 2. Frontline innovators: Transformational teachers in America
  • Chapter 3. The ugly business: British narratives of government
  • Chapter 4. Churchill, appeasement, victory: The British narrative of leadership
  • Chapter 5. Cynicism, idealism, compromise: American political fables
  • Chapter 6. Kennedy, cuba, history: Lessons of a crisis management narrative
  • Chapter 7. Matters of life and death: Two American jury narratives
  • Chapter 8. Conclusion: A story that is just beginning references about the author.

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