Leadership in contemporary Local Government reform: the Lyons Report and its implications for Australasian Local Government
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2008
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Grant, B.
Dollery, B.
Crase, L.
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Proceedings of the 22nd annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management conference, 2008, pp.1-19
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22nd Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Managing in the Pacific Century (2 Dec 2008 - 5 Dec 2008 : Auckland, New Zealand)
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This paper considers the impact of the increasing emphasis on leadership in public sector management as it pertains to local government. The reforms proposed in the recently completed Lyons Report into local government in England exemplify the current emphasis on leadership and offer a blueprint for change based upon an increase in financial power and decision-making capability within an overall framework denoted as ‘place-shaping’. We critically assess its prescriptions for leadership in local government and argue that any adoption of the ‘place-shaping’ agenda in Australasia has to be tempered with an eye to familiar problems in public sector organisations of accountability, rent-seeking, cost-shifting and equity
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Copyright 2008 The Authors