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The Second Conference on Empirical Studies of Organizations and Public Management
Kenneth J. Meier, Larry O'Toole, and the Project for Equity Representation and Governance at Texas A&M University would like to invite all interested parties to attend a Public Management Conference on May 5-6 in College Station Texas. The conference brings together a collection of talented, empirical scholars of public management and also features a mini-conference of current PhD students.
This is the second such conference of its kind; the first having grown out of a joint Texas A&M-University of Georgia seminar in public management taught in the fall of 2002. That class produced a cadre of talented young scholars of public management who have already made significant contributions to the literature (see list of alums below). This spring a similar class will be taught for PhD students at Texas A&M.
The conference has two parts: A set of research presentations by existing scholars along with panel discussions of issues in public management research and a small mini-conference where students in the current seminar present their own research papers.
Tentative schedule
Papers to be presented at the faculty conference
Where are they now: Alums of the 2002 Public Management Class
The top 10 reasons you should attend this conference
Tentative schedule:
May 4
Reception and Welcome Dinner
May 5
Management Conference Papers
Dinner
May 6
Graduate Student Papers
Round Tables on Public Management Issues
Dinner and Party
Papers to be presented at the faculty conference
Amy Kneedler Donahue, University of Connecticut and Willow Jacobson, University of North Carolina, "Boomlets Managing Boomers: Does Age Affect Attitudes in the Workplace?"
Sergio Fernandez, Indiana University, "What Works Best When Contracting for Services? An Analysis of Contracting Performance at the Local Level"
Alisa K. Hicklin, Texas A&M University, "Management Networking and Performance: An Application to Higher Education"
Holly T. Goerdel, Univeristy of Kansas and David W. Pitts, Georgia State University, "Public Management, Autonomy, and Performance"
Laurence J. O'Toole, University of Georgia and Kenneth J. Meier, Texas A&M University and Cardiff University,
" Modeling Public Management: Empirical Analysis of the Management-Performance Nexus" and "Management Theory and Occam’s Razor: How Public Organizations Buffer the Environment."
Zhirong "Jerry" Zhao, Eastern Michigan University and Wenli Yan, University of Kentucky, "Do managerial Factors Matter?
Ratings of Texas Independent School District Bonds"
Where are they now: Alums of the 2002 Public Management Class (faculty positions)
Paul Battaligo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Sergio Fernandez, Indiana University
Holly T. Goerdel, University of Kansas
Alisa K. Hicklin, University of Oklahoma (fall 2006)
Greg Hill, Boise State University
Eric Gonzalez Juenke, University of Colorado
Jung Wook Lee, University of Illinois, Springfield
Miner P. Marchbanks, III, Texas Tech University
Sean Nicholson-Crotty, Course Coordinator, University of Missouri
Chris Owens, Central Michigan University
David Pitts, Georgia State University
Rene Rocha, University of Iowa (fall 2006)
Lu Yi, SUNY - Binghamton (fall 2006)
Zhirong "Jerry" Zhao, Eastern Michigan University
What are the top 10 reasons you should attend this conference:
10. Not all papers will be on Texas school districts.
9. Larry O'Toole will explain why he went into administration full time.
8. Ken Meier will not perform "Rotisserie Public Management"
7. Larry Lynn may be enticed to attend.
6. You don't think heteroscedasticity is a social disease.
5. This is the first you have heard about Texas and are interested in visiting.
4. You are curious about a public management class taught in a political science department.
3. You want to talk with bright people interested in public management.
2. The food and wine flow freely.
1. Some great research in public management will be presented.
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