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Public service organization's increasingly are considering diversification into new “for-profit” or “high-profit” enterprises. Such undertakings offer a number of potential benefits to both the organization and the public. They also have potential problems. This article examines some of the major types of benefits and problems in hopes that both public service managers and public policy makers will give a balanced consideration to these diversification efforts.
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William R. Fannin is Assistant Professor of Management at University Houston Clear lake. Previously he held this post at University of Maine. His most important publications are ‘The Dual Career Couple: A Challenge to Personnel in the Eighties’ (with Carol Gilmore),Business Horizons 25, 36–41 and ‘MNC Strategy Development: A Framework for Analysis’ (also with Carol Gilmore), forthcoming inLong Range Planning.
Carol B. Gilmore is Associate Professor of Management at the College of Business Administration of University of Maine at Orono. Her most important publications are ‘Education and Health Care: Does the Industrial Model Still Exist?’,Labor Law Journal 34 and ‘The Impact of Faculty Collective Bargaining on the Management of Public Higher Educational Institutions’,Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector 10.
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Fannin, W.R., Gilmore, C.B. Public and firm interests in public service diversifications. J Bus Ethics 4, 415–418 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02388596
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02388596