?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Organisational+change+in+public+organisations&rft.creator=Apelt%2C+Christina+L.&rft.subject=organisational+change&rft.subject=organisational+culture&rft.subject=publicness&rft.subject=organisational+goals&rft.subject=bureaucracy&rft.subject=public+sector+change&rft.subject=stakeholder+engagement&rft.subject=managing+conflict&rft.subject=organisational+structure&rft.subject=organisational+environment&rft.description=This+research+applies+a+multidimensional+model+of+publicness+to+the+analysis+of+organisational+change+and+in+so+doing+enriches+understanding+of+the+public+nature+of+organisations+and+how+public+characteristics+facilitate+change.+Much+of+the+prior+literature+describes+public+organisations+as+bureaucratic%2C+with+characteristics+that+are+resistant+to+change%2C+hierarchical+structures+that+impede+information+flow%2C+goals+that+are+imposed+and+scrutinised+by+political+authority+and+red+tape+that+constrains+decision-making.+This+dissertation+instead+reports+a+more+complex+picture+and+explains+how+public+characteristics+can+also+work+in+ways+that+enable+organisational+change.&rft.publisher=Queensland+University+of+Technology&rft.date=2014&rft.type=Thesis&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F73086%2F2%2FChristina_Apelt_Thesis.pdf&rft.rights=free_to_read&rft.relation=Apelt%2C+Christina+L.+(2014)+Organisational+change+in+public+organisations.+PhD+thesis%2C+Queensland+University+of+Technology.&rft.id_number=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F73086%2F&rft.identifier=QUT+Business+School%3B+School+of+Management