The author expands on his belief that management scholars should have greater
involvement in both public and private policy matters, and identifies five issues that should …

The study of public organizations has withered over time in mainstream organization studies
research, as scholars in the field have migrated to business schools. This is so even though …

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 …

The article discusses effective management in the public sector. As the US government's
response to Hurricane Katrina revealed, the cost of poor management can be high. As …

The author discusses the state of public management in the US in 2005, and suggests two
improvements. First, the relatively small cohort of scholars active in studying public …

The study of public management ought not to attempt to imitate—as do many disciplines in
the social sciences—the research paradigm of the natural sciences. But neither should …

Public management as an applied, problem-oriented field will always, and should always,
wrestle with the exquisite tension between theory and prac-tice. Researchers in public …

This article begins with a discussion of the concepts of management and leadership. I seek
to integrate these two concepts by specifying dimensions of leadership and management in …

If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord.
Confining ourselves to practice, we may lose sight of basic principles, and when these have …

In this article we examine the state of public management research, specifically focusing on
the scope of research and variety of methodologies pursued in the field. We use a sample of …