Organizing and Institutionalizing Local Sustainability
This Element explores the role of public managers as designers. Drawing from systems-thinking and strategic management, a process-tracing methodology is used to examine three design processes whereby public managers develop strategies for adapting to climate change, build the requisite capabilities and evaluate outcomes. Across three cases, the findings highlight the role of managers as 'design- oriented' integration agents and point to areas where additional inquiry is warranted. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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December 2022Paperback
9781009101363
75 pages
228 × 152 × 6 mm
0.15kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: design processes in local sustainability
- 2. Strategy assemblage: designing conceptual futures in south bend
- 3. Recovery and realignment: organizational capabilities and their codification in Bloomington
- 4. Reverse-Engineering performance: outcome identification in Indianapolis
- 5. Institutionalizing design processes: challenges and future directions for managing city sustainability
- Glossary of terms
- Bibliography.