The predominant focus in research on organizations is either on private or public institutions without consistent consideration of their interdependencies. The emphasis in scholarship on private or public interests has strengthened as disciplinary and professional knowledge has deepened:...

We critically assess the nature, method and scope of neoclassical economics, and its purported relationship to the famous definition of economics by Lionel Robbins (that economics is the science of human behaviour as a relationship between scarce mans that have alternative uses). We claim that...