International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior: Volume 19 Issue 1

Symposium on David Farmerʼs public administration theory

Bob Cunningham, Aaron Wachhaus

Symposium introduction

Bob Cunningham, Aaron Wachhaus

What is newark?

Aaron Wachhaus

Farmer encourages the use of multiple perspectives as a means of developing robust knowledge. He points out that it is impossible to fully know any thing from a single vantage…

Applying farmerʼs lenses: Two illustrations

Tom Barth

This article reflects on how Farmerʼs writing on the use of multiple lenses informs two writing projects, one on values-based decision making and the other on lessons from…

Of rhizomes and pointillism: David john farmerʼs influence, method and art in the field

Richard Huff, Cynthia Cors, Jinzhou Song, Yali Pang

The work of David John Farmer has been recognized as critical to the Public Policy and Administration canon. Its impact has been far-reaching both geographically because of its…

Advancing the practice of performance measurement in public organizations: Observations from the tennessee municipal benchmarking project

Christopher Shults

David Farmer suggests that there are multiple ways of looking at social science concepts. No one perspective, or lens, is superior, but taken together, multiple lenses can be…

Heroes, superheroes, and policy outcomes: An alternative view of leadership of public organizations

Robert A. Schneider

Public managers often have a different perspective in comparison to the elected officials with whom they serve. Yet, they are tasked with working side-by-side with these elected…

Out of the fly-bottle? A post-script on post-traditional public administration

David John Farmer

David farmerʼs body of work: A retrospective and prospective view

Orion White

David Farmerʼs work is too often misunderstood, perhaps because of the truly imaginative metaphors that he employs for expressing it, and the seemingly paradoxical prescriptions…