Michael Barzelay􀆳 s Public Management as a Design-Oriented Professional Discipline is an
invitation to rethink Public Management (PM). He visits its intellectual traditions and …

In recent years, design thinking has conquered the public and nonprofit sectors by storm. All
over the world, design labs are founded in both academia and government with an explicit …

I think it'sa safe assumption that if you've read further than this book's title, you care about
public management, as an enterprise within the academic world and/or in government …

Theorists of the “Public Management (PM) Movement” challenge to public administration do
not examine thoroughly the social-structural causes of the failure of the pyramid in the …

Hal Rainey's Understanding and Managing Public Organizations is a masterful textbook, as
well as an important and original contribution to the public organization theory literature …

This paper addresses the current “big questions” debate in public administration and
proposes an appropriate placement for organization theory in the discourse of the discipline …

This essay complements that of Hou et al.(Hou, Yilin, Anna Ya Ni, Ora-orn Poocharoen,
Kaifeng Yang, and Zhirong Zhao, 2011,“The case for public administration with a global …

At the Berkeley conference, I organized my comments around some interesting questions
that George Frederickson had put to the panelists. I felt that I should try to respond to these …

How may public management be defined as an academic field? From what disciplinary
bases has public management evolved? What knowledge frameworks does public …

An age-old issue is how inquiry and action can reciprocally contribute to transforming
existing into preferred conditions. Leading scholars of a recent generation repeatedly …