Though management is theorized as a temporal process, and public organizations are
understood as generally inertial, most public management studies rely upon cross-sectional …

While scholarship on public leadership has recently gained momentum in public
administration, it is unclear how researchers should account for the “public” in public …

Although there is no shortage of general studies and theories of leadership, the same
cannot be said for public leadership. This concern surfaced as a critical issue among …

Yes, this is another book about leadership. I apologize. And to tell you the truth it has been
extremely hard to convince myself that the world really needed one, and that I had …

Though the mainstream organizational literature has advanced in the last 20 years with the
integration of transformational and distributed leadership theories, as well as genuine …

This exploratory study surveys the public service leadership literature from a selection of
leading public administration journals over a 25‐year period (1987–2012). Patterns in …

A variety of assessments through 2001 discussed the striking neglect of theory related to
leadership in public sector organizational settings. For example, Jerry Gabris, Bob …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of some pressing but under-
researched aspects of public leadership. Ten propositions about public leadership are set …

The tough-talking, take-charge, individualistic view of public leadership is alive and well
throughout the world, despite the enthusiasm of leadership scholars for more shared …

The historical aversion to effective leadership in American public administration literature
imposes a troubling controversy over the appropriateness of nonelected public leaders …