TY - BOOK AU - Pepper,Matthew AU - Price,Oriana AU - Elias,Arun TI - Continuous improvement practice in local government: insights from Australia and New Zealand T2 - Routledge focus on business & management SN - 9781003011675 AV - JS8033 U1 - 320.8 23/eng/20211012 PY - 2022/// CY - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY PB - Routledge KW - Local government KW - Australia KW - New Zealand KW - Continuous improvement process KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Total Quality Management KW - bisacsh KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Quality Control N2 - "This book looks at continuous improvement (CI) methodologies and the application of such in local government in Australia and New Zealand. Through case studies, the book translates theoretical concepts into real life applications and thus, highlights the theory-practice nexus. The cases provides theoretically informed narratives of how approaches have been applied by practitioners in the implementation of CI in their organisations. It also demonstrates the benefits of academic-industry collaboration in the CI discipline. This book will be a useful reference to scholars and researchers working on process improvements, service processes, public management, public administration and as well as policy makers from the public sector"-- UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003011675 UR - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf ER -