Courses NonDegree Display 2018-2019

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Course title Public Management Reform and Public Entrepreneurship
Course code EBC2077
ECTS credits 6,5
Assessment None
Period
Period Start End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
4 4-2-2019 5-4-2019 X X
Level Intermediate
Coordinator Hans van Mierlo
For more information: h.vanmierlo@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Language of instruction English
Goals
Description
All over the world modern government organisations are changing their classical bureaucratic structures into modern institutions focussing on public management and public entrepreneurship. Public entrepreneurship is related to institutional public reform.
Literature
K. Walsh, Public Services and Market Mechanisms. Competition, Contracting and the New Public Management, Basingstoke and London, 1995
Osborne, D. and T. Gaebler, Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector
Prerequisites
Two years of the programme in Economics or International Business Studies. For students from abroad, an introductory course in Public Economics, Microeconomics or Organisation- Economics is required. Relevant theories and concepts: welfare economics, new institutional economics, new economics or organisation, public choice theory, new public management, privatisation, marketisation. This course aims at International Economics students, International Business students and students in Organisational Economics.
an advanced level of English

This course aims at IES-students, Socrates- and other exchange students, as well as students in organisational economics (e.g. track Organisation: Change Management). This courses is an elective for IB-students.
Teaching methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) PBL / Presentation / Groupwork
Assessment methods (indicative; course manual is definitive) Final Paper / Attendance / Participation
Evaluation in previous academic year For the complete evaluation of this course please click "here"
This course belongs to the following programmes / specialisations
Bachelor Economics and Business Economics - Emerging Markets Economics Electives
Bachelor Economics and Business Economics - Economics and Management of Information Free Electives
Bachelor Economics and Business Economics - International Business Economics Economics Electives
Bachelor International Business Economics Electives
SBE Exchange Bachelor Bachelor Exchange Courses
SBE Exchange Master Bachelor Exchange Courses
SBE Non Degree Courses Bachelor Courses