This book provided a review of the literature on management and organization theory and addressed applications for the public sector grounded in evidence from research on public organizations and their members. It was intended to be valuable to practicing managers, scholars, and studenets in the field.
The original volume grew out of a seminar taugh by Mitchell Sellingson at the University of Arizona. In preparing for the seminar while on sabbatical at the University of Essex in England, he recognize that there was a great deal of research addressing the two questions posed above, and he attempted to organized that material for his students. In addition, the most recent theoretical and empiri…