Abstract
What Is Evidence-Based Management or Public Management?
It is a simple question to ask, but a complicated one to answer. Let us start with the
purpose of evidence-based approaches: to improve public management and policy
making by grounding decision making in evidence. This in turn leads to three
contentious questions: What is evidence; how is evidence used in practice, policy,
programs, and management; and what is new (or “emerging”) about the field?
It is a simple question to ask, but a complicated one to answer. Let us start with the
purpose of evidence-based approaches: to improve public management and policy
making by grounding decision making in evidence. This in turn leads to three
contentious questions: What is evidence; how is evidence used in practice, policy,
programs, and management; and what is new (or “emerging”) about the field?
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Evidence-based public management |
| Subtitle of host publication | Practices, issues and prospects |
| Editors | Anna Shillabeer, Terry F. Buss, Denise M. Rousseau |
| Publisher | M.E. Sharpe, Inc. |
| Chapter | 1 |
| Pages | 3-16 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315704456 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780765624208, 9780765624222 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
First published 2011 by M.E. SharpePublished 2015 by Routledge
Copyright © 2011 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Knowledge management (KM)
- Evidence
- Evidence-based management (EBMgt)
- systematic assessment of EBMgt
- public management
- local government management