What Makes an Organization Public? Managers’ Perceptions in the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment System

dc.contributor.authorMerritt, Cullen C.
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-10T18:24:04Z
dc.date.available2019-01-10T18:24:04Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe question “What makes an organization public?” is a leading point of scholarly inquiry in the field of public administration. This study supplements existing theory on publicness by further exploring the primary influences on an organization’s publicness—influences identified by analyzing data from in-depth interviews with senior-level managers of mental health and substance abuse treatment facilities. Results from a grounded theoretical analysis of these managers’ perceptions provide support for a conceptual framework of organizational publicness in which political authority, horizontal engagement, and public engagement are associated with higher levels of publicness. Better understanding of the prism through which senior managers conceptualize publicness may enhance managerial awareness of the most salient structural and institutional mechanisms that empower treatment facilities to effectively support individuals suffering from mental health disorders such as substance abuse, emotional distress, and depression.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMerritt, Cullen C. (Forthcoming). "What Makes an Organization Public? Managers’ Perceptions in the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment System". American Review of Public Administrationen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/18131
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Review of Public Administrationen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1177/0275074019829610
dc.subjectOrganization theoryen_US
dc.subjectPublic managementen_US
dc.subjectPublicnessen_US
dc.subjectMental healthen_US
dc.subjectSubstance abuseen_US
dc.titleWhat Makes an Organization Public? Managers’ Perceptions in the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Treatment Systemen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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