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 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 goals of the individual are subordinate to those of the organization, authority is
distributed in a vastly uneven fashion, and there is relatively little opportunity for the …

Little has been done to actively support research on" the study of administration" since
Woodrow Wilson wrote his famous article by that title nearly 100 years ago. This book offers …

INTER ORGANIZATIONAL Page 1 This article argues that the basic unit for much of public
organization analysis is not the organization as is the convention in organization and …

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 …

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 …

The performance of public organizations has become a topic of great interest to scholars
and practitioners of public management around the globe. This interest stems from …

The dependent variable in all the articles presented in this symposium issue of JPART was
organizational performance in public agencies. Management variables included …