Going Astray—Business Models and State Bureaucracies in an Unholy Alliance

Monitoring business performance has been the main theme throughout this book, focused essentially on market oriented firms in the private business sector and other organisations in which stress is placed on organisational performance. As, however, business models have increasingly been adopted as attractive models for public sector institutions, this final chapter will seek to analyse the appropriateness of applying business models in state organisations. Such analysis may be called for since many questions have been raised about an alliance in which models developed for one context are applied in a different context with different characteristics and conditions.