Public and Private Management: What's the Difference?

By George A. Boyne. 2002

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Motivating Employees of the Public Sector: Does Public Service Motivation Matter? (2010, background): “…it postulates that public employees are special in that they behave differently from their private sector counterparts and are not driven by extrinsic motives alone (Barrows and Wesson 2000; Blais, Blake, and Dion 1990; Boyne 2002; Rainey 1983; Rainey 1982; Rainey and Bozeman 2000; Bright 2009).”
Exploring Managerial Mechanisms that Influence Innovative Work Behaviour: Comparing private and public employees (2014, background): “Due to institutional constraints and external political influence, managers in the public sector are often said to administer less autonomy to employees and lower-level managers (Boyne 2002; Rainey 1999).”
From Competition to Collaboration in Public Service Delivery: A New Agenda for Research (2005, background): “…recent studies which suggests that the differences between the public and private sectors – in terms of environment, organizational structure, goals and values – are not clear cut and are becoming increasingly blurred (Antonsen and Jorgensen 1997; Brereton and Temple 1999; Nutt 2000; Boyne 2002).”
Management innovation and firm performance: An integration of research findings (2015, methodology): “3.2.1 Support score technique This procedure aggregates the empirical results based on the percentage of statistically significant regression coefficients (p≤.05) (Boyne, 2002; Rosenthal, 1991).”
An analysis of differences in work motivation between public and private sector organizations (2007, methodology): “Based on an analysis of 34 empirical studies, Boyne (2002) found support for only 3 out of 13 hypotheses about the diff erences between public sector and private sector management.”
Comparing Public and Private Sector Employees’ Innovative Behaviour: Understanding the role of job and organizational characteristics, job types, and subsectors (2015, background): “Managers in the public sector are often said to give less autonomy to employees and lower-level managers (Boyne 2002).”
Public and private sector entrepreneurship: similarities, differences or a combination? (2009, background): “Lower commitment and job satisfaction (Rhinehart et al., 1969; Buchanon, 1974a, b; Rainey, 1983; Boyne, 2002) Calculated risk taker; invest personal capital in the business; higher financial incentives; profitability is fundamental to generate income (Ramamurti, 1986; Hornsby et al.”
Management innovation: A systematic review and meta-analysis of past decades of research (2019, background): “The negative relationship of organisational size on MI can be viewed through the public choice theory that argues large organisations are inefficient, monopolistic, and unable to react to the environmental changes, and as such are not likely to innovate (Boyne, 2002).”
Public Service Motivation, User Orientation, and Job Satisfaction: A Question of Employment Sector? (2013, background): “According to Rainey and Bozeman (2000), Boyne (2002), and other general research into the differences between the public and private sectors, the many different stakeholders in the public sector (varying from citizens to politicians and interest organizations) can imply multiple and conflicting…”
Issues of Knowledge Management in the Public Sector (2003, background): “However, there is no established body knowledge on successful management strategies in the private sector that can be drawn upon by public agency either ( Boyne 2002 ).”
Presenteeism and burnout among teachers in public and private Portuguese elementary schools (2012, background): “The differences between the sector’s organizational context influence employees’ attitudes and work behaviours (Boyne 2002; Goulet and Frank 2002).”
Public Service Motivation and Employment Sector: Attraction or Socialization? (2013, background): “The core purpose of the public sector is to serve the public interest and ensure citizens an adequate level of welfare which (due to the external benefits of public services) would not otherwise be provided (Boyne, 2002; Rainey, 2009, p. 67).”
Lean in healthcare: the unfilled promise? (2012, background): “15 countries the distinction is even difficult to make, there remain significant areas of difference (Boyne, 2002).”
Advancing Nonmarket Strategy Research: Institutional Perspectives in a Changing World (2012, background): “…2004; Keim & Zeithaml, 1996; Lawton, McGuire, & Rajwani, in press; Schuler, 1996; Schuler et al., 2002; Zelner et al., 2009), public administration (Boyne, 2002; Rashman et al., 2009), and, more recently, the social and environmental obligations of firms as they interact with their external…”