Understanding and Managing Public Organizations, 5th Edition

PREFACE

The previous editions of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations reviewed the literature on management and organization theory and suggested applications to the public sector grounded in evidence from research on public organizations and the people in them. The book has served primarily as a text in courses for master of public administration students and in seminars for doctoral students in public administration and public affairs programs. It has also served the needs of scholars, and it has a high number of citations in the Social Science Citation Index for a book of this type, in this field. The revisions in this fifth edition seek to enhance the book’s usefulness to students and scholars. The book also seeks to meet certain ...