The field of public management draws on a rich and varied trove of intellectual resources.
Applying scholarship and imagination, its students can recognize, interpret, and predict the …

A synoptic overview of public administration as a developed profession, a brief history of the
evolution of management thought, coupled with seminal academic contributions that …

Public management stands at the unique intersection of theory and practice. It seeks to help
scholars frame questions that will improve their understanding of how policy ideas become …

In this introductory paper for the special issue “Government and the Governance of Business
Conduct: Implications for Management and Organization”, we focus on government as an …

While the field of public management has become increasingly international, research and
policy recommendations that work for one country often do not work for another. Why, for …

This editorial continues a series of discussions in previous AMP articles and editorials
devoted to rethinking how management research should tackle the big issues of the 21st …

The article reviews the books “Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is
Transforming the Public Sector,” by David Osborne and Ted Gaebler, and “From Red Tape …

For many post-graduate students undertaking a research project for the first time is a
daunting prospect. Gaining the knowledge and skills needed to do research typically has to …

This volume is a product of the second National Public Management Confer-ence, held at
the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, in October 1993 …

A recent article by Larry Terry raises the alarm about a new manage-ment ideology, which
he calls" neo-managerialism." He says that this new ideology, a compound of several recent …