Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector: When Middle Managers Create Public Value

✍ Scribed by Fabian E. Diefenbach (auth.)

• Publisher: Gabler Verlag
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Entrepreneurship is often considered one way for public sector organizations to better serve the public. But what are the drivers for entrepreneurship in such organizations? And does entrepreneurship really create value? To answer these questions, Fabian E. Diefenbach develops a research model based on a comprehensive review of the literatures on private sector corporate entrepreneurship, public entrepreneurship, and public value management. The empirical analyses identify five drivers of entrepreneurship and show a positive effect of entrepreneurship on value creation. This book concludes with a detailed discussion of the results and, importantly, their implications for public sector managers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Private Sector Corporate Entrepreneurship....Pages 9-30
Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector....Pages 31-64
Hypotheses and Theoretical Model....Pages 65-86
Research Methods....Pages 87-117
Results....Pages 119-147
Discussion....Pages 149-164
Conclusion....Pages 165-166
Back Matter....Pages 167-205

✦ Subjects

Management/Business for Professionals