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ORGANIZATION THEORY AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR: INSTRUMENT, CULTURE AND MYTH

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Public sector organizations are fundamentally different to their private sector counterparts. They are multi-functional, follow a political leadership, and the majority do not operate in an external market. In an era of rapid reform, reorganization and modernization of the public sector, this book offers a timely and illuminating introduction to the public sector organization that recognizes its unique values, interests, knowledge and power-base.

Drawing on both instrumental and institutional perspectives within organization theory, as well as democratic theory and empirical studies of decision-making, this text addresses five central aspects of the public sector organization:

goals and values
leadership and steering
reform and change
effects and implications
understanding and design.

This volume challenges conventional economic analysis of the public sector, arguing instead for a democratic-political approach and a new, prescriptive organization theory. A rich resource of both theory and practice, Organization Theory for the Public Sector: Instrument, Culture and Myth is essential reading for anybody studying the public sector.

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Statement of Responsibility

Tom Christensen

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302.3 CHR o

Publisher

New York : Routledge., 2007

Collation

xv, 191 p. : ill ; 23cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-415-43380-2

Classification

302.3

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Subject(s)

Buku Umum
Social Interaction
Social Sciences
Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology

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