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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827429403321

Titolo

Ports in a storm : public management in a turbulent world / / John D. Donahue and Mark H. Moore, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-48856-5

9786613583796

0-8157-2238-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DonahueJohn D

MooreMark Harrison

Disciplina

387.1068

Soggetti

Harbors - Management

Marine terminals - Management

Harbors - Security measures

Marine terminals - Security measures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : on management and metaphor / John D. Donahue and Mark H. Moore -- Sea change : rewriting the rules for port security after September 11 / Pamela Varley -- Unraveling a risk-management challenge / Malcolm K. Sparrow -- Portstat : how the Coast guard could use the PerformanceStat leadership strategy to improve port security / Robert D. Behn -- Pursuing public value : frameworks for strategic analysis and action / Herman B. Leonard and Mark H. Moore -- The tummler's task : a collaborative conception of port protection / John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser -- Toward a higher purpose : Captain Englebert navigates the choppy waters of network governance / Stephen Goldsmith -- Improving port security : a twenty-first-century government approach / Elaine C. Kamarck -- Calling publics into existence : the political arts of public management / Mark H. Moore and Archon Fung.

Sommario/riassunto

In  Ports in a Storm a team of Harvard Kennedy School scholars focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. Their aims are two: to



understand how a public manager might confront that complex undertaking, and to explore the similarities, differences, and complementarities of their alternative approaches to public management.The book takes as its pivot point the singular case of U.S. Coast Guard CaptainSuzanne Englebert and her leadership of efforts to secure America's ports after theSeptember 11 attack