This chapter explores advances in Ukraine’s decentralisation reform between 2014 and Russia’s large-scale aggression February 2022. First, it provides a recap of developments as part the country’s efforts to strengthen local self-governments, improve public service delivery democracy during period. Second, considers challenges that have arisen process, including discrepancies existing legislati...

These phenomena allowed companies and organisations to grow globally, reacting to the climate of uncertainty through the decentralisation of production and innovation. Shifting activities to the electronic dimension allowed an increase in efficiency and the reduction of coordination costs. At the same time, organisations geographically distributed start to interact and trade globally, enhancing...

Since the 1980s in France, like in most European countries, governments have had sustained interest in modernising State. The reforms implemented have resulted in huge changes in the management of public employment relations. The transformations are based on three simultaneous processes: the introduction of a more business-like approach, the socalled New Public Management (NPM), the decentralis...