This article argues that a lack of a consistent agency-based approach in theory on
sustainability transitions makes it difficult to describe processes of change. To overcome this …

The provision of public services by for-profit and non-profit organizations is widespread in
OECD countries, but the jury is still out on whether outsourcing has improved service quality …

Building on the publicness, organizational theory, and policy diffusion literatures, we
describe and evaluate the relationships between organizational and two distinct types of …

While public value theory has emerged to offer important insights into the evaluation of
social enterprises, little is known about the origins of public value failure and even less …

Financial accountability is a major issue for State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) especially
because of the large amount of public resources invested in them and the social relevance …

Objective The aim was to identify hospital and county characteristics associated with
variation in breadth and depth of hospital partnerships with a broad range of organizations …

Instead of private gain or corporate profits, what if we set public values as the goal of
leadership? Leadership means many things and takes many forms. But most studies of the …

The proliferation of market-based public service delivery raises concerns whether the
vulnerable are dully served and what mechanisms facilitate to serve them well. Focused on …

The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) requires banks to grant low-income communities
access to credit. Federal agencies monitor CRA activity and rate banks on compliance. As …

Now in its third edition, Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy remains the
definitive source for article-length presentations spanning the fields of public administration …