SCIENZA DELL'AMMINISTRAZIONE E TEORIA DELLE ORGANIZZAZIONI

Detailed Course Content

• APPROACHES, METHODS AND CONCEPTS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

  Government agencies such as species of the "complex organization" genus – Public administrations and the stages of the evolutionary process of the State – Searching the typical public administration: organizational factors and metaphors organization - The Science of the administration as a ‘plural’ discipline - What approach for a " plural discipline”: the systems approach.

• ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

  The pluralism of perspectives in Science Administration - The "policy analysis" perspective: public policies and policy making - The 'policy analysis' perspective: the life cycle of policies - The 'organizational' perspective : the structural dimension and environmental - the "organizational" perspective: the size of the subjectivity and rationality - the "bureaucratic" perspective: Max Weber and the analysis of the bureaucracy in the modern world – the "bureaucratic" perspective after Max Weber.

• THEORY OF COMPLEX ORGANISATIONS

  The structural and behavioral characteristics of loosely coupled systems - Governance - Implications and perspectives in the analysis of complex organizations

Textbook Information

• APPROACHES, METHODS AND CONCEPTS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

  R. D’Amico, a cura di, L’analisi della pubblica amministrazione. Teorie, concetti e metodi, Vol. 1, La Pubblica amministrazione e la sua scienza, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2006.

• ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

  R. D’Amico, a cura di, L’analisi della pubblica amministrazione. Teorie, concetti e metodi, Vol. 2, Prospettive di analisi per le pubbliche amministrazioni, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2007.

• THEORY OF COMPLEX ORGANISATIONS

  S. Zan, Le organizzazioni complesse. Logiche d’azione dei sistemi a legame debole, Roma, Carocci editore, 2011.