The Best Of Two Worlds

Patricia Jardim Palma, Miguel Pina e Cunha and Miguel Pereira Lopes

Public Management Review, 2010, vol. 12, issue 5, 725-746

Abstract: Policies have been introduced in the public sector to increase efficiency. Following a privatization, there is a split between operational and strategic control. In this study, we explored how a public organization restores its identity after losing its operational structure. Based on a case study of a seaport, we found that when the self-defining properties were lost, the organizational identity dissolved into a managerial public identity. The organizational meaning that provided security and guided behavior was lost and the new identity was unable to serve as a provider of meaning. Implications for new public management policy and practice are discussed.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2010.490689

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