How BIDs Behave: Publicness and Privateness in BID Organizational Life

Abstract

Organizational differences between state and private associations are difficult to define.¹ Behavioral boundaries marking public and private sectors have been characterized as “fuzzy.”² Private government theory contends that both public and private organizations share basic features common to all institutions that exercise authority. As mentioned in the opening chapter, these theorists posit that the thread of governance runs through all institutions in society. Regardless of public or private status, organizations contain rules, personnel, plans, and programs.³ Furthermore, both public and private institutions maintain sanctions used against constituents who break their rules.⁴