Reinventing government: how the entrepreneurial spirit is transforming the public sector
01 Nov 1993-Rae-revista De Administracao De Empresas (Fundação Getulio Vargas/ Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo /RAE-publicações)-Vol. 33, Iss: 6, pp 97-99
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...government” (see Osborne and Gaebler, 1992). 19 See also Stevenson and Gumpert (1991). 20 We will use the terms self-employed and business owners...
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...18 We will focus our discussion on entrepreneurship in large firms, but note that there is also a literature on “entrepreneurial government” (see Osborne and Gaebler, 1992)....
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...222 F. Damanpour and M. Schneider tive programmes associated with the new public management (NPM) movement of government reinvention (OECD, 1995; Osborne and Gaebler, 1992) that were adopted by local governments between 1992 and 1997.5 Administrative innovations are mainly process innovations…...
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