Motivation is a central issue in many theories of the behavior of public officials (see, for controversy surrounding efforts to model the motivations of public officials is the extent to which their behavior is driven by self interest in contrast to altruism (Mansbridge, 1990). Some theories argue that the behavior of public officials can be understood as narrowly self interested. Others conten...

In this paper we explore some implications of the Miles and Snow (1978, 2003) typology of strategy types for public organizational adaptation and effectiveness, particularly as they are linked to organizational ambidexterity and dynamic capabilities. We see ambidexterity as referring to “the synchronous pursuit of both exploration and exploitation via loosely coupled and differentiated subunits...

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS PETER G. KLEIN, JOSEPH T. MAHONEY*, ANITA M. MCGAHAN, and CHRISTOS N. PITELIS Division of Applied Social Sciences, and Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A. Department of Business Administration, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. Rotman School of Mana...

This study investigated the constructs that influence satisfaction and continuous use intention in e-learning services through a sample of 343 employees of two Brazilian public organizations. The main contribution of this study is the delivery of an assessment tool for performance oriented to training courses at distance in public organizations.

Existing classifications of organizational strategy have limited relevance to public agencies. They confuse strategy processes and strategy content, consist of simplistic taxonomies, and do not take sufficient account of the constraints faced by public organizations. In this article we attempt to remedy these problems by developing a strategy content matrix that comprises two dimensions: strate...

By working with experts throughout Europe, ECDC pools Europe’s health knowledge, so as to develop authoritative scientific opinions about the risks posed by current and emerging infectious diseases. Difficulties rose in the management of competent bodies’ lists and the information was duplicated several times across the organization. ECDC started implementing a CRM system to organize the inform...

IntroductIon New public management and the more recent concept of new public governance have become the dominant management doctrines in the public sector. Public organizations have become increasingly network-like units with various governance relations with actors from the public, business, and voluntary sectors. Their organization is based more on networks than on traditional hierarchies, ac...