ABSTRACT
The concepts of administrative-practice (a-p) theory, theory generators, and adaptive administration have been introduced in Chapter 1. Chapters 2 and 3 provide summaries of various administrative concepts that might be included in a knowledge base for public administration. Chapter 2 covers selected topics and strategies, while Chapter 3 covers selected risks, constraints, and challenges. These concepts might be included in a knowledge base in order to maximize the capabilities to spot issues, solve problems, and better understand how to achieve maximum organizational effectiveness. Such a knowledge base implemented through Big Data systems (as described in Chapter 5) may act as a primary information resource to develop new approaches to supporting administrators and evolution of the field. The result may be to develop an enhanced field of public administration with a recognized base of expertise that will strengthen the performance of those in the field, support the efforts of theory-developers and strengthen the efforts by practitioners. The types of process-oriented theory generators needed for adaptive administration may be hosted effectively by such data systems, which may allow the application of a-p theory. Throughout Chapters 2 and 3, the potential impact of adaptive administration on these selected concepts is introduced.
