This paper explores how management theories can be extended and applied to innovation, experimentation, and creativity in the public domain. Researchers in various disciplines have studied public entrepreneurship, but there is little research specifically on the management of organizations to...

Extant explanations of the nature and scope of firms, such as transaction costs, property rights, metering and ‘resources’ can be integrated into a more general (capability-based) theory of the nature and essence of the firm that recognizes the importance to the firm of creating (and...

This paper explores innovation, experimentation, and creativity in the public domain and in the public interest. Researchers in various disciplines have studied public entrepreneurship, but there is little work in management and economics on the nature, incentives, constraints and boundaries of...