Strategic Management in EU Public Administrations

Course duration: 20 hours of lectures and 32 hours of seminars

The aim of the course is to offer a wide-ranging survey and assessment of strategic management at the level of public administration in EU countries. It reveals that strategic management is much more than a management tool imported from private sector, it is a key of public administrations reforms at all levels of government, independently by the type of state or type of administration. Will we take into consideration the strategy and its implications on all levels of governance (political, social, economic, financial) at European level.

Professors:

  • Prof. PhD. Hab. Bercu Ana-Maria
  • Assoc. Prof. PhD. Hab. Boldureanu Gabriela
  • Assoc. Prof. PhD. Cigu Elena
  • Assoc. Prof. PhD. Petrisor Bogdan-Mihai

Teaching materials: download here

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Books and papers

  • Alford, J., & Greve, C. (2017). Strategy in the public and private sectors: Similarities, differences and changes. Administrative Sciences, 7(4), 35. Available here
  • Shvardak, M. (2021). SWOT-analysis as a strategic management tool of the quality training of the future educational institution head. Available here
  • Gretzky, W. (2010). Strategic planning and SWOT analysis. Essentials of strategic planning in healthcare, 1(12), 91-108. Available here
  • Keban, Y. B., Arifin, S., & Wahyono, R. (2019). SWOT analysis and its implementation strategies in educational management. Journal of Education and Practice, 10(12), 86-92. Available here
  • Duca, G. (2021). Design of the Smart Objectives System in the Management of a Research Project. In: Xu, J., García Márquez, F.P., Ali Hassan, M.H., Duca, G., Hajiyev, A., Altiparmak, F. (eds) Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. ICMSEM 2021. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 79. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79206-0_34
  • De Bruycker, I., & McLoughlin, A. (2021). The public affairs plan: Seven steps to success rooted in science and practice. Journal of Public Affairs, 21(3), e2567. Available here

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