Understanding Public Management as an International Academic Field
Abstract
Public management has evolved as a distinct sub-discipline within the larger discipline
of management over the past several decades. Public management is different from
what is often referred to as “traditional public administration” in that the former focuses
more on what happens within governments and on the operation of the line functions of
government while public management pays more attention to the operation of
government organizations from the perspective of their interaction with the
environments in which they operate. Public management tends to conceive of
governments and governance systems similar to the ways that organizational theorists
focus on strategic behavior in response to contingency in the environment. Public
management views organizations that provide services to the public as adaptive systems
influenced by critical variables in their surroundings. Additionally, public management
incorporates an economics perspective on the value of competition between
organizations in markets, and also business/marketing thinking about strategic
positioning of products/services and product/service lines relative to the attributes of
consumer preferences and market demand.
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