Ten years ago, the British Journal of Management devoted a special issue to public sector management. The issue identified a series of characteristics associated with public management research, most notably a strong organizational behaviour orientation, a qualitative bent and a predominant healthcare and UK focus. That special issue voiced a 'call to arms' for public management researchers to speak more directly to management research, elucidate a more nuanced account of public management reform, adopt a more explicit theoretical basis and become more internationally comparative. This paper provides a comment on progress against these objectives. We find that public management research has become more diverse, often characterized by an international focus and a wide range of methodological approaches. The paper echoes concerns regarding an increasingly one-way relationship with general management studies but highlights a more reciprocal connection with organization studies. In doing so, we emphasize three sections of organization scholarship in particular - sociological institutionalism, Fou-cauldianism and theories of identity. We demonstrate that engagement with these perspectives has improved our understanding of public service reforms and provided opportunities for theoretical contributions beyond the field of public management. The paper concludes with reflections on future public management research.
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机译：十年前，《英国管理杂志》（British Journal of Management）专门发行了一本有关公共部门管理的文章。该期杂志确定了与公共管理研究相关的一系列特征，最显着的是强有力的组织行为取向，定性的倾向以及主要的医疗保健和英国重点。这一特刊号召公共管理研究人员发出“呼吁”，以更直接地与管理研究对话，阐明对公共管理改革的细微差别，采用更明确的理论基础，并在国际上进行比较。本文对实现这些目标的进展进行了评论。我们发现，公共管理研究已经变得更加多样化，通常以国际关注和广泛的方法论为特征。该论文回应了与一般管理研究之间越来越多的单向关系的担忧，但强调了与组织研究之间更相互的联系。在此过程中，我们特别强调了组织学术的三个部分-社会学制度主义，傅考尔主义和身份理论。我们证明，与这些观点的接触增进了我们对公共服务改革的理解，并为公共管理领域以外的理论贡献提供了机会。本文最后总结了对未来公共管理研究的思考。
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