Can Public Organizations Perform Like Private Firms? The Role of Heterogeneous Resources and Practices

The authors thank the senior editor for the thoughtful guidance and the group of four anonymous reviewers for the developmental comments provided to them during the review process. The authors benefitted from the comments of participants of the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (Atlanta), the 2017 ANPAD (Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração) Conference (Sao Paulo, Brazil), the 2018 Doctoral Workshop of the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (Chicago), the 2022 Public Management Research Association Conference (Phoenix), and the Brownbag Series at the Rotman School of Management (Toronto, Canada). The authors also thank Anita McGahan, Carlos Inoue, Daniela Scur, Fernando Deodato, Jorge Carneiro, Jacqueline Lane, Laura Doering, Leandro Pongeluppe, Naercio Menezes, Pervez Gauri, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and Sergio Firpo for their valuable feedback. All errors and omissions are the authors’ own.