Bureaucratic Ambition: Careers, Motives, and the Innovative Administrator

by Manuel P. Teodoro

Political scientists and public administration scholars have long recognized that innovation in public agencies is contingent on entrepreneurial bureaucratic executives. But unlike their commercial counterparts, public administration "entrepreneurs" do not profit from their innovations. What motivates enterprising public executives? How are they created? Manuel P. Teodoro's theory of bureaucratic executive ambition explains why pioneering leaders...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421402459
• ISBN13: 9781421402451
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"