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100	1		_920352 _aRainey, Hal G.
245	1	0	_aComparing public and private organizations : _bempirical research and the power of the a priori
260			_capr. 2000
520	3		_aResearch comparing public and private organizations and examining the publicness of organizations represents a substantial and growing body of empirical evidence, relevant to many international issues in political economy and organization theory such as the privatization of public services. This article assesses several major streams in this research over the last two decades, which in some ways refute widely held a priori assumptions about similarities and differences between public and private organizations but which in some ways supoort such assumptions. The review covers research on goal complexity and ambiguity, organizational structure, personnel and purchasing processes, and work-related attitudes and values. The research results converge in important ways, but they also present anomalies. For example, in spite of virually universal agreement among scholars that public organizations have more goal complexity and ambiguity, public managers do not differ from business managers in response to survey questions about such matters. Public managers do not differ from business managers on perceptions about organizational formalization, in spite of a chorus of assertions trhat government agencies have more red tape and reules tha private firms have. Public managers do, however, show very sharp differences in response to questions about constraints under personnel and purchasing rules. The article concludes with an assessment of the credibility of these streams of research through consideration of alternative plausible hypotheses
700	1		_91399 _a Bozeman, Barry
773	0	8	_tJournal of Public Administration Research and Theory _g10, 2, p. 447-469 _d, apr. 2000 _w
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998			_a20030226 _bLucima _cLucimara
998			_a20060210 _b1551^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c11673 _d11673
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