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Gestión y política pública
versión impresa ISSN 1405-1079
Gest. polít. pública vol.15 no.2 Ciudad de México jul./dic. 2006
Gestión y Política Pública
El rescate de la publicness en los estudios de la organización*
Rescuing Publicness from Organization Studies
1El doctor Jean-Claude Thoenig trabaja en la INSEAD y en la Universidad París IX, Dauphine, Francia. Correo electrónico: thoenig@gapp.ens-cachan.fr.
El presente artículo se enfoca a responder la siguiente pregunta: ¿Cómo debe definirse el concepto de la publicness desde la perspectiva de los estudios organizacionales? El argumento que el autor desarrolla se estructura en tres partes. En la introducción del texto, considera importante regresar a las teorías fundacionales de los estudios organizacionales. En un segundo momento, el autor defiende la idea de que las organizaciones públicas son organizaciones con una naturaleza específica. Por último, en un tercer momento el autor presenta algunas razones y ejemplos de por qué las políticas, su hechura y gestión ofrecen elementos fructíferos para plantear nuevas indagaciones empíricas sobre las organizaciones públicas.
Palabras clave: publicness; estudios organizacionales; políticas y organizaciones públicas
This article is focused on answering the following question: How should publicness be de-fined as an organizational studies issue and handled for analytic purposes? In order to develop its argument, the article is structured in three parts. As an introductory step, the author considers important to make a quick return to the founding years of modern organizational studies. The perspective suggested in the second section of the paper assumes that public organizations are organizations of a specific nature. The third section shall present a few reasons and examples why policies, their making and their management, offer a fruitful access to further empirical inquiry on public organizations.
Keywords: publicness; organizational studies; public policies; public organizations
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Recibido: 07 de Febrero de 2006; Aprobado: 26 de Marzo de 2006
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