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EPUBLIC MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
AND THE GAO]
BY
HARRY S. HAVENS
ASSISTANT COMPTROLLER GENERAL
PREPARED FOR DELIVERY TO THE
PUBLIC MANAGEMENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE
NOVEMBER 17, 1980
I am privileged to be here with you today. Improving public
management has been a commitment of the GAO for many years and
has received added emphasis since Mr. Staats became Comptroller
General in 1966. We have been, are, and will continue in the
future to be very supportive of research in this area.
Our conference theme this morning is: Meeting the ongoing
challenge of developing and nurturing a public management re-
search network. The conference objective, which supports and
expands this theme, is to encourage improvements in the quality,
quantity, and usefulness of public management research.
The Meaning of Research
Research, of course, is a word of many meanings to many
different people. Perhaps we can think of it here today as the
pursuit of information through diligent inquiry and investiga-
tion; as a careful effort to uncover new knowledge through
experiment, or through other kinds of investigation. Research
may employ a variety of paradigms and methodologies, but the
central idea in any research is to reveal new information,](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobacutb0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)