Literature Review

Definition of belief. 1. The mental act, condition or habit of placing trust or confidence in another. 2. Mental acceptance of and conviction in the truth, actuality or validity of something. 3. Something believed or accepted as true, especially a particular tenet or a body of tenets accepted by a group of persons. Belief, light as a drum rattle, touches us (A.R Ammons). Believing is either an intellectual judgment or, as the 18th century Scottish skeptic David Hume maintained, a special form of feeling overtones that differ from those of disbelief. Belief becomes knowledge only when the truth of a proposition becomes evident to the believer. Belief is someone or something is basically different from belief that a proposition is true.

Claudine Kearney, Robert D.Hisrich, and Frank Roche. (2009) Public and Private sector entrepreneurship: similarities, differences or a combination? The paper identifies and examines the historical and evolutionary research on entrepreneurship as a basis for analysis of public and private sector entrepreneurship. The paper provides a comprehensive analysis that highlights key similarities, differences or a combination between public and private sector entrepreneurship and develops an existing model and framework for a systematic approach to the public sector entrepreneurship process.

Goran Svensson, Greg Wood and Michael Callaghan, (2008). The paper describes and compares similarities as well as differences in the organizational engagement with ethics between public and private sector companies. The research may be of managerial interest as it provides a grounded framework of areas to be considered in the examination of organizational engagement with ethics in both private and public sector entities.

Sharmillah Devi Ramahandran, (2010). An exploratory study comparing faculties perspectives within private and public universities in Malaysia. The main objective of the paper is to study the organizational culture in private and public higher education institutions. This paper raises awareness and provides initial guidelines to both public and private Higher Education Institutions in formulating strategies on how to deal properly with their organizational culture from the perspective of their faculty members for attainment of their organizational goals and vision.

Anne Marie Berg, (2006). Transforming public services Transforming the public servants? The paper investigates the interdependence between organizational forms and the identities of managers and front line personnel in government services. It finds that new management systems and organizational forms are emerging with the evidence of hybrid form of bureaucracy in the organizations. It also uses an empirical study of three Norwegian public services to support the hypothesis that distinct professional groups respond differently to new public management reforms.

Submitted By: Major Nasir Mahmood MBA-4 Section- B