TY - JOUR AU - Rainey, Hal G. AB - Sergio Fernandez is an assistant professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. His research focuses on public management, with an emphasis on privatization and contracting for services, public sector leadership, and organizational change. His research has appeared in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Performance and Management Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration, and Public Administration Review. E-mail: sefernan@indiana.edu. Hal G. Rainey is the Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. His research concentrates on organizations and management in government, with an emphasis on performance, change, leadership, incentives, privatization, and comparisons of governmental management to management in the business and nonprofit sectors. The third edition of his book Understanding and Managing Public Organizations was published in 2003. He was recently elected a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. E-mail: hgrainey@uga.edu. an governmental organizations change? Reform initiatives have swept through governments in the United States and overseas, again and again bringing news about efforts to reinvent, transform, or reform government agencies (Barzelay 2001; Kettl 2000; Pollitt and Bouckaert 2000; Stillman 1999). Curiously, however, this recurrent theme of change in TI - Managing Successful Organizational Change in the Public Sector JF - Public Administration Review DO - 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00570.x DA - 2006-03-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/managing-successful-organizational-change-in-the-public-sector-ZCAA0gDZbj SP - 168 VL - 66 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -