This document provides a reading list of articles related to entrepreneurship, risk, and ethics in governance. The articles discuss whether public sector workers are more risk averse than private sector workers, the types of entrepreneurship as productive, unproductive or destructive, entrepreneurship as a cause or consequence of development, the relationship between public ethics and entrepreneurship, models for improving government performance, and a critique of regulatory politics and entrepreneurial governance. The document concludes by asking for an essay response on the critique of entrepreneurial governance in public management.

1. “The Dark Side of the Force”
Language & Process
Risk Aversion & Risk Culture
Corruption & Unethical Behaviors
Reading
:
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the link.
Ballante, Don & Link, Albert N. (1981). Are public sector
workers more risk averse than private sector workers?
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
, 34, 3, 408-412.
http://lib.nova.edu/333 (Links to an external site.)
Baumol, W. J. (1990). Entrepreneurship: Productive,
unproductive and destructive.
Journal of
Political Economy
, 98(5), 893-921.
http://lib.nova.edu/148 (Links to an external site.)
Boettke, P. J. &, Coyne, C. J. (2003). Entrepreneurship and
development: Cause or
consequence?

2. Advances in Austrian Economics,
6
, 67-88. Retrieved from the Mercatus
Organization web site:
http://mercatus.org/uploadedFiles/Mercatus/Publications/Cause
%20or%20Consequence.pdf (Links to an external site.)
Cohen, S., Eimicke, W., & Salazar, M. P. (1999, November).
Public ethics and public
entrepreneurship
. Paper presented at the Annual Research Meeting of the
Association of
Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C.
Retrieved from
ResearchGate:
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/252936584_Public_Eth
ics_and_Public_Entreprenuership (Links to an external site.)
Schacter, H. L. (1995). Reinventing government or reinventing
ourselves: Two models for
improving government performance.
Public Administration Review
,
55
(6), 530-537.
http://lib.nova.edu/138 (Links to an external site.)
Simmons, R., Yonk, R., & Thomas, D. (2011). Bootleggers,

3. Baptists, and political entrepreneurs:
Key players in the rational game and morality play of
regulatory politics.
The
Independent Review
,
15
(3), 367–381.
http://lib.nova.edu/183 (Links to an external site.)
Due
: Essay 6 Question: Entrepreneurial governance sounded like
such a good idea, didn't it? What do you make of the critique
against entrepreneurial governance/public management? Do you
think the critique is valid, and why/why not?