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Administrative entrepreneurship in the public sector
Abstract
Politics, administrative advocacy, entrepreneurship, and innovation are often not the guiding ideology of public sector human services agencies. Following a public administration model, many administrators place a high value on neutrality--noninvolvement in partisan political affairs. At the same time, many public agencies dismiss innovation and advocacy efforts as too controversial and detrimental to career longevity. Since controversial agencies and agency executives at times lose public support, these assumptions tend to go unquestioned. A study presents the account of a unique public human services agency, the Boone County Community Services Council (BCCSC) Columbia, Missouri, that defied these tenets, achieved an array of services innovations, and permanently changed the way in which human services were delivered for an entire community. Described are the specific strategies used by the BCCSC as it made innovations and engaged in entrepreneurial activities that continue up to the present. (This issue of Administration in Social Work has eight additional articles on alternative social agencies.) (Journal abstract, edited.)
Journal
(1988)
vol12
no2
pages59-68
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Financial Management
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Managing
