Nishihara, Ayano Hirose (Ed.)

Knowledge creation in public administrations : innovative government in Southeast Asia and Japan / Ayano Hirose Nishihara, Masaei Matsunaga, Ikujiro Nonaka, and Kiyotaka Yokomichi. - Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. - xxxi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Includes index.

Knowledge-Based Management Theory -- Case Study 1: Mayor Belmonte and Quezon City (Eduardo T. Gonzalez and Zita Concepcion Calugay) -- Case Study 2: Toward Surabaya Cyber City: From GRMS to e-Sapawarga (2004-2014) -- Case Study 3: Tono Style Community Development -- Case Study 4: Institutionalized Innovation in Jembrana Regency Under Regent I. Gede Winasa (2000-2010) -- Case Study 5: Thinking Big for the Common Good: A Case Study of the Household Block-Grant Initiative in Agricultural Management in Vietnam -- Case Study 6: Co-Creating the Census Serbilis, a Study of the Philippines National Statistics Office (Magdalena L. Mendoza, Ma. Christina R. Valte, and Krichelle Alyce L. Ching) -- Case Study 7: Dr. Sanguan Nitayarumphong and Public Healthcare Reform in Thailand -- Case Study 8: Redefining Reality: A Case Study of the Emerging Leadership of Truong Chinh -- Knowledge-Based Public Sector Reform: The Philippine Experience (Alex B. Brillantes Jr., Boostes Esden Lopos, and Lizan E. Perante-Calina) -- Leadership and Management Development: The Indonesian Experience -- A Knowledge-Based Paradigm of Public Sector Reforms in Asia -- To Become the Nation and the Region for Knowledge-Creating Enterprises

This book presents a new paradigm of innovative government in Asia, at the municipal, regional and national levels, based on the knowledge creation theory in management, and leading to organizational transformation policy in public administration. Focusing on Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and Japan, the book is based on the findings of a joint research project established to identify the factors that impact the effectiveness or performance of public administration by applying the knowledge-based management theory that originates in private sectors to public sector management.

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MLM Endorsed


Public administration--Asia.
Knowledge management.