Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Strategic Management: The Modern Policy Religion
Jan-Evert Nilsson (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Blekinge, Sweden)
Chapter 2. Regulatory Governance Strategies: What about Democracy?
Noralv Veggeland (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Organization Science, Lillehammer, Norway)
Chapter 3. Innovation and the Creation of Public Value
Rolf Rønning (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lillehammer, Norway)
Chapter 4. Dimensions of Collaborative Administrative Strategies and Policy Innovation
Ulla Higdem (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Organization Science, and Centre of Innovation in Service, Lillehammer, Norway)
Chapter 5. The Adventurous State and the Valley of Death: A Comparative Study of State and Venture Capital Strategies in Norway and Sweden
Tor Helge Pedersen (Department of Economics and Organization Science, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, Norway)
Chapter 6. Societal Governing Efficiency: Problem Relevance or System Dependency? The Case of Norway
Per Kristen Mydske (Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway)
Chapter 7. Automatic Stabilization and the Active State
Håvard Teigen (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Organization Science, Lillehammer, Norway)
Chapter 8. Management by Objectives as an Administrative Strategy in Norwegian Schools: Interpretations and Judgments in Contrived Liberation
Yngve Nordkvelle and Lene Nyhus (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, Norway)
Chapter 9. Foreign Policy Strategies: Norway and the High North
Geir Hønneland (Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, Norway)
About the Editor
Index
This thought-provoking book is a must-read for all theoreticians and practitioners in the field of political and social sciences, and especially for politicians.