Public-Sector Management Today: Advanced Differentiation and Early Institutionalization
聚焦公共部门管理（PSM）领域的四个核心问题，包括其定义、研究路径、复杂因素及改进方向，为研究者提供该领域现状的概述。
This summary article draws attention to four central questions concerning a turbulent and even troubled area of inquiry and practice. Three questions dominate. What is "public sector management" or PSM? How has PSM been approached? Whatfactors complicate coming to grips with PSM? The focus is basically descriptive-on what usually has been considered under the rubric PSM. Consequently, loose ends get more attention than prescriptionsfor tidying-up an area of inquiry and practice that now finds itself variably responding to political as well as analytic challenges. However, a fourth question does get some attention: How can we do better in PSM research?