Document Type
Dissertation
Major/Program
Public Administration
First Advisor's Name
Howard A. Frank
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Keith Revell
Third Advisor's Name
Sukumar Ganapati
Fourth Advisor's Name
John F. Stack, Jr.
Keywords
public management, globalization, public administration, small-medium cities, triangulated research
Date of Defense
12-11-2009
Abstract
This study examines how public management practitioners in small and medium-sized Florida cities perceive globalization and its impact on public management practice. Using qualitative analysis, descriptive statistics and factor analysis methods, data obtained from a survey and semi-structured interviews were studied to comprehend how public managers view the management and control of their municipalities in a time of globalization. The study shows that the public managers’ perceptions of globalization and its impact on public management in Florida’s small-medium cities are nuanced. Whereas some public managers feel that globalization has significant impacts on municipalities’ viability, others opine that globalization has no local impact. The study further finds that globalization processes are perceived as altering the public management functions of decision-making, economic development and service delivery in some small-medium cities in Florida as a result of transnational shifts, rapidly changing technologies, and municipalities’ heightened involvement in the global economy. The study concludes that the globalization discourse does not resonate among some public managers in Florida’s small-medium cities in ways implied in extant literature.
Identifier
FI10112002
Recommended Citation
Wedderburn, Nadine V., "Managing Small-Medium Cities in a Time of Globalization: Experiences and Evidence from Florida’s Public Managers" (2009). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 308.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/308
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