The changing nature of public entrepreneurship

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Bernier, Luc; Hafsi, Taieb
• 署名单位: University of Quebec; Ecole National Administration Publique Canada; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2007.00731.x
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 488-503
• 关键词: management; sector; FIRMS

摘要

This article proposes a cyclical theory of public entrepreneurship that is rooted in contextual conditions. The authors use material p resented to the Institute of Public Administration of Canada for the annual innovation award, as well as an extensive literature review, to illustrate a new model for public entrepreneurship, arguing that today public entrepreneurs are teams and their actions are systemic. Public entrepreneurs do not create new artifacts, nor do they design grandiose projects, but they slowly reinvent their organizations and, in so doing, transform the systems that control government effectiveness and efficiency. The authors generalize and contextualize the idea of public entrepreneurship and structure the emergence Of entrepreneurs into a cycle theory. The individual entrepreneur dominates when the organization is new or there is a need for novel activities. As the organization matures and the need for efficiency takes over, dominant individual entrepreneurship disappears, and with time, a new systemic entrepreneurship arises to tackle them.