Public management sv
ALLE ARTIKELS LEZEN UFORA
1
,Les 1 introduction
Empirical scope
1. What? Public organizations!
Public management is about managing public organizations. Public
organizations are characterized by … the drive to create public value
• Question: ‘How are public and private organizations different from one another?’
• Give some keywords/ideas/arguments to indicate how you understand ‘public’
Core approach to ‘public’
~legal type provides a simple but powerful distinction
~either government-owned, or private owned
Advantages:
• Speaks to common sense
• Easy to use, the criterion is straightforward
What?
The case of WADA
Go to Ufora and consult the WADA article
• Sit in groups of 2/3 people, read and discuss at a moderate tone
• Take position: is WADA a public or private organization? Why?
• Kijk nog eens dit deeltje vd les van de 3 regels 11/02 15U14
• Wada is publicly funded
• Direct communication with goverments
• But also independent with private income
• Dit is een vd artikels dus goed kennen
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,Universities?
• Complex organizations ~likely to have more than one legal form
• Both private (student fees) and public income (subsidies)
• Governed by a board that is in part politically appointed and/or serves because of their
political background
~ oversight at arm’s length
Public or private organizations?
A lot of mix, hybrid (between private and public)
Dimensional approach to ‘public’ (public or private)
~scale, not a dichotomy
~more or less public depending on the extent to which externally imposed political authority affects them
!! Measurement – risk of comparing apples with oranges
Publicness
Learn by hard for this course
Kennen!
3
, The “Publicness Puzzle”
Bozemann & Bretschneider, 1994
Goal of the study = verify the extent to which a dimensional understanding of publicness provides
additional explanatory power over a core understanding.
~case in point; to what extent is there a difference between public and private R&D labs in focus on (a)
patents and licenses (~private output), and (b) publication of scientific research (~public output)?
Main take-away
• Complementary; broad-brush view (does it matter?) AND a fine-grained view (if so, which
dimensions then matter?)
The more Private you are the more time you spent on patents
The more public you are, the more you spent on writing articels
Need to read it for this examen! (kijk ufora)
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ALLE ARTIKELS LEZEN UFORA
1
,Les 1 introduction
Empirical scope
1. What? Public organizations!
Public management is about managing public organizations. Public
organizations are characterized by … the drive to create public value
• Question: ‘How are public and private organizations different from one another?’
• Give some keywords/ideas/arguments to indicate how you understand ‘public’
Core approach to ‘public’
~legal type provides a simple but powerful distinction
~either government-owned, or private owned
Advantages:
• Speaks to common sense
• Easy to use, the criterion is straightforward
What?
The case of WADA
Go to Ufora and consult the WADA article
• Sit in groups of 2/3 people, read and discuss at a moderate tone
• Take position: is WADA a public or private organization? Why?
• Kijk nog eens dit deeltje vd les van de 3 regels 11/02 15U14
• Wada is publicly funded
• Direct communication with goverments
• But also independent with private income
• Dit is een vd artikels dus goed kennen
2
,Universities?
• Complex organizations ~likely to have more than one legal form
• Both private (student fees) and public income (subsidies)
• Governed by a board that is in part politically appointed and/or serves because of their
political background
~ oversight at arm’s length
Public or private organizations?
A lot of mix, hybrid (between private and public)
Dimensional approach to ‘public’ (public or private)
~scale, not a dichotomy
~more or less public depending on the extent to which externally imposed political authority affects them
!! Measurement – risk of comparing apples with oranges
Publicness
Learn by hard for this course
Kennen!
3
, The “Publicness Puzzle”
Bozemann & Bretschneider, 1994
Goal of the study = verify the extent to which a dimensional understanding of publicness provides
additional explanatory power over a core understanding.
~case in point; to what extent is there a difference between public and private R&D labs in focus on (a)
patents and licenses (~private output), and (b) publication of scientific research (~public output)?
Main take-away
• Complementary; broad-brush view (does it matter?) AND a fine-grained view (if so, which
dimensions then matter?)
The more Private you are the more time you spent on patents
The more public you are, the more you spent on writing articels
Need to read it for this examen! (kijk ufora)
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