Sixty years ago the “Brownlow Committee Report” was written by some of the most
prominent members of the emerging field of public administration. Its recommendations had …

Organizational theorists have had much to say about how environments affect organizations
but have said relatively little about how organizations shape their environment. This silence …

Management journals often contain heated discussions about disciplinary approaches, or
how and whether to legitimate different kinds of research. The author classifies nine such …

Increasingly the term public management is being used to describe degree programs,
courses, books, and articles that were once described as public administration. The reasons …

As part of this special issue, this article explores the relationship of public management
research to the study of public policy and the policy process. Beginning with a review of the …

Research in public administration and public management has distinctive features that
influence the choices and application of research methods. Periods of change and upheaval …

The article discusses the need for scholars to engage in more research that has practical
application. Increasingly and for various reasons, research seems aimed at producing …

The manager is often neglected in management scholarship. Although we are not the first to
call for renewed attention to managers, given the rapidly evolving state of the environment in …

M OST ECONOMISTS hope that their work will have an impact on public policy. Yet, few
economists devote much time or effort to studying the mechanisms by which economic …