Healthcare systems in many countries are under pressure for renewal due, for instance, to demographic changes or service delivery fragmentation. This paper focuses on organizational capacities for change by illustrating knowledge, processes, and resources needed for implementing healthcare reforms at the meso-level organizations. We examine these capacities in the empirical context of the Finnish healthcare […]
The article focuses on collective knowledge formation processes in which an understanding of sustainable public administration (PA) is constituted. We turn the perspective from the production of sustainability data to the epistemic aspects of sustainability: to justifications, rationalities, and knowing in the specific context of sustainability management in public organizations. We approach sustainable policymaking as […]
Sustainability has been extensively studied in different disciplines especially since the publication of the Brundtland commission’s report in 1987. However, in public management as well is knowledge management literature sustainability has gained limited scholarly attention. Especially, there is a lack of understanding of sustainability as an issue that needs managing. Therefore, article approaches sustainability in […]
Local governments can have a prominent role in steering local level actions for sustainable development. To actively pursue sustainable development, local governments need to not only to generate sustainability performance information to target their actions and demonstrate their effects towards sustainability but integrate it as part of their managerial practices and consider sustainability performance information […]