A Place at the Table

Organization Theory and Public Management

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15748755
AutoresAndrew B Whitford (0000-0002-6428-3471, University of Georgia), H Brinton Milward (0000-0002-0094-8470, University of Arizona, autor de correspondencia), J Galaskiewicz (0000-0002-6106-234X, University of Arizona), Anne M Khademian (0000-0001-7989-6097, Virginia Tech)
Año2020
Volumen3
Número2
Páginas77-82
Fecha de publicación2020-03-10
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPerspectives on Public Management and Governance (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2398-4910 • E-ISSN: 2398-4929
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/ppmgov/gvaa008
OpenAlexW3011942613
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas24

In November 2018, the University of Arizona’s School of Government and Public Policy hosted an international workshop on the role of organization theory in public management. The intention was to renew interest in organization theory in public management research. Scholars such as Herbert Simon, Herbert Kaufman, and Richard Selznick made seminal contributions to organization theory through the study of public organizations from the 1940s through the 1960s. In our estimation, organization theory is underrepresented in public administration scholarship for the last several decades. There are natural reasons for this trend, including the discipline’s turn towards organizational behavior and the ascendancy of techniques that advance the study of large datasets and those that allow for experimental control. The recent emergence of “behavioral public administration” is a prominent example of this evolution. This symposium is an attempt to make a place at the table of public management for organization theory. The articles in this symposium contain articles from scholars who operate in the tradition of classic organization theory in new and innovative ways to lend intellectual purchase to studies of public organizations and public organizational networks

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