12 Locating improvisation in public service management Past, present, and future research directions
Decision making in the public sector
In broad terms, the public sector can be understood as organizations that belong to the state or government (Lane, 2000) and are governed collectively by members of political communities (Boyne, 2002). While this is an important distinction between the public sector and private sector, there are many other characteristics that contribute to the suggestion that the public sector ecosystem is far more complex than its private sector equivalent (Pettigrew et al., 1992; Thompson & McHugh, 1991). For instance, according to Boyne (2002), the public ...
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