International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior: Volume 6 Issue 1

What jesus says to public administration

deHaven-Smith Lance

This essay argues that the teachings and ethos of Jesus are needed in public administration to address a potentially fatal weakness in modern industrial republics. The latter are…

Niccolo machiavelli: moving through the future as we learn from the past

Christopher Anne Easley, John W. Swain

This article lays out the argument that we may best cope with the unfolding of the future by learning from the past. Here, the past represented by Niccolo Machiavelli’s world and…

Mercantilism and the future: the future lives of an old philosophy

Paul Rich

Discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of Public Administration necessarily involves an appraisal of the legacy of mercantilism. Few movements have had more lasting influence…

Jeremy bentham: on organizational theory and decision making, public policy analysis and administrative management

Lawrence L. Martin

Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832) was an eccentric 18th Century English genius of many interests. He was the leader of a group of social and political reformers known as the…