'In a recent article published in this journal, the authors argued that elephants and public organizations have something in common. Both are saddled with inaccurate stereotypes. Elephants are believed to be slow and insensitive creatures, when in fact they can run very fast and are very sensitive. Similarly, public organizations are believed to be low-performing and unresponsive, when in fact ...

introduction Public-sector organizations are one of the top spenders in information technology (IBM, 2006). According to an IDC report, global public-sector IT spending will exceed $138 billion in 2006, representing 12.2% of overall IT spending (IBM). In the United States, public-sector IT spending is likely to grow to $92 billion in 2010 from $71 billion in 2005 (Pulliam, 2005). Despite the hu...

There are considerable debates about the existence, nature, and application of entrepreneurship within the public sector. The present survey analyzes the application of entrepreneurship in Iranian public sector organizations. For this purpose, the situation of entrepreneurship within the head offices of Iranian public service organizations was considered. Also, based on McKeinsy and Daft’s fram...

the effects and outcomes of organizational citizenship behavior in recent years have increasingly received attention by researchers and scholars of organization and management field. one of them can be named as creation and enhancement of social capital. yet, a comprehensive research has not been done about it in public organizations of islamic republic of iran. the researcher tries to offer a...

Public sector innovation has been now widely studied. However, scholars barely consider organizational hybridity as an explanatory variable. Since many public organizations are no longer purely (nor private), may modify the drivers and processes of innovation. This empirical study, based on a survey, is designed to explore relationship between characteristics While there evidence that affects f...