Leadership in Contemporary Local Government Reform: The Lyons Report & its Implications for Australasian Local Government

Bligh Grant; Brian E Dollery; Lin Crase

Leadership in Contemporary Local Government Reform: The Lyons Report & its Implications for Australasian Local Government

Bligh Grant, Brian E Dollery, Lin Crase

UNE Business School

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Managing in the Pacific Century: Proceedings of the 22nd ANZAM Conference
Editors	Marie Wilson
Place of Publication	Auckland, New Zealand
Publisher	University of Auckland
ISBN (Print)	1863081488
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	ANZAM 2008: 22nd Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Managing in the Pacific Century - Auckland, New Zealand Duration: 2 Dec 2008 → 5 Dec 2008

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Conference	ANZAM 2008: 22nd Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Managing in the Pacific Century
City	Auckland, New Zealand
Period	2/12/08 → 5/12/08

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Urban and Regional Economics

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Grant, B, Dollery, BE & Crase, L 2008, Leadership in Contemporary Local Government Reform: The Lyons Report & its Implications for Australasian Local Government. in M Wilson (ed.), Managing in the Pacific Century: Proceedings of the 22nd ANZAM Conference. University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ANZAM 2008: 22nd Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference: Managing in the Pacific Century, Auckland, New Zealand, 2/12/08. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/4953>

Leadership in Contemporary Local Government Reform: The Lyons Report & its Implications for Australasian Local Government. / Grant, Bligh; Dollery, Brian E; Crase, Lin.
Managing in the Pacific Century: Proceedings of the 22nd ANZAM Conference. ed. / Marie Wilson. Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland, 2008.

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