7Drucker and the Role of Government
Introduction
Although primarily viewed as a writer on business organizations, Drucker wrote extensively on the management of governmental institutions and their place in society. As he developed his larger theory of a functioning society of healthy, well-managed institutions, Drucker saw the pluralist nature of such a society consisting of a wide variety of institutions with different purposes. The key was to have each organization and sector focus on that which it did most effectively, and to avoid taking on tasks that were better left to other institutions. Just as the for-profit and service sectors played crucial roles in balancing necessary innovative change with continuity, ...
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