Little did we know when Sara Rynes first asked us to organize a special research forum on
public policy and management research that it would appear at a time of such great need …

The article discusses four initiatives that could help bridge the gap between management-
organizational scholarship and public policy. First, the author suggests enriching research …

The preceding commentators were unanimous in their belief that management scholars
should" mat ter more" to how organizations operate, whether in the private or the public …

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 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 article discusses the influence of academics on management practice in the US One
group of scholars believes that certain academic theories, particularly agency theory, have …

As a college student, I read an article with a title that thoroughly captured my fancy," Topic X
[this part of it does not matter]: Whence and Whither?" I determined that some day I must …

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 …

" Not long ago," Golembiewski (1996) observes," public administration was the
acknowledged queen of the managerial disciplines but is now troubled"(p. 139). How this …

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 …