Dear Patra,

This would be helpful while changing job from one sector to the other. The decision making in Public sector is highly centralized beyond a particular seniority level like the General Manager etc.

Dr.K.R.Subramanian

The decision making process is very similar in larger private businesses and public institutions. Decisions take longer to make in public institutions where more momentous issues are involved, such as the construction of new buildings and strategy formations, in which case the process is characterised by staged decisions, often resulting in compromises between parties with contrasting interests. 

A propos decision-making in the public sector, I find much explanatory power in Thomas Sowell's comment that "You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing." On Decision Making, available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266477995_On_Decision_Making, may be of related interest.

Article On Decision Making

 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276136711_New_Tools_to_Capture_the_Elusive_Green_Consumer_Reviving_a_Revolution

This is my take on managerial decision making using green procurement as a context. On a broader reply to your question, there are a number of structural contexts that would make decision-making process vary between private and public sector executives. I use private to general refer to corporate organisations that may include state-owned companies with corporate structures that provide independence in management from the government bureaucracy. Public sector is limited to a bureaucracy in a government entity.

They may differ in focus or emphasis as follows:

1. Objectives - profits and returns optimisation may drive private business, while public support or votes are what public sector decisions tend to want to maximise.

2. Focus - multi-periods metrics or financial performance tend to dominate private business' considerations, while meeting budgetary targets such as disbursements within budget year. 

3. Rewards - private executives are rewarded financially more in line with achievement of objectives, while public sector executives may find a mix of power, status and financial rewards (often smaller) as their sources of motivations.

4. Job security and mobility - while the differences in job security tend to become blurred after the 2008 financial crisis, there appears to be a perception that a professional bureaucracy could still offer better job security particularly for those with tenure. Mobility is where they may differ more - private executives may face a more liquid job market where executives move jobs with relative ease (particularly during robust economic growth) while public executives may face less choices. The latter however may have expanded with the rise of multilateral agencies as alternative employment for national bureaucrats.  

Trust this gives you a flavour of what you may consider in refining your research question.

Article New Tools to Capture the Elusive Green Consumer: Reviving a Revolution

Dear Patra,

This would be helpful while changing job from one sector to the other. The decision making in Public sector is highly centralized beyond a particular seniority level like the General Manager etc.

Dr. Kapil Kumar Bansal

The public sector has an organizational culture that is different with the private sector. The Quinn model can be an excellent tool to understand the difference between the two sectors.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308748603_The_study_and_rating_of_a_variety_of_organizational_cultures_in_public_sector_based_on_the_Quinn_model

Article The study and rating of a variety of organizational cultures...

Knowing which management (control) tools work in the private vs. the public sector is of paramount importance in order to effectively apply the appropriate type of management practices in the appropriate settings.

Literatures evaluating NPM (New Public Management) practices may be of interest for you since they focus on 'implementing businesslike tools in a public sector environment', and are eager to point to (possible) problems that might arise when implementing something from the private sector in the public sector.

Also more general studies looking at the effectiveness / usability of particular instruments such as pay-for-performance are probably relevant for understanding differences between the private & public sector contexts; I for instance really like the paper of Frey et al. (2013) in this respect.

Some reading suggestions:

Frey et al. (2013) on contexts in which pay-for-performance works http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0170840613483655 

Lapsley (2009) on evaluating NPM 

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6281.2009.00275.x/abstract

Perry (1996) on public service motivation

http://spa.hust.edu.cn/2008/uploadfile/2009-9/20090909152512403.pdf

Good luck with your research!

Comparing Public and Private Sector Decision Making: Problem Structuring and Information Quality Issues 

(https://secure.orsnz.org.nz/conf45/program/Papers/ORSNZ2010_Buchanan.pdf)

25 Differences Between Private Sector and Government Managers

(http://www.powermag.com/25-differences-between-private-sector-and-government-managers/)

Leadership Differences between Private and Public Sector Organisations: literature review

(http://research-methodology.net/leadership-differences-between-private-and-public-sector-organisations-literature-review/)

Comparing Public and Private Sector Decision-Making Practices

(https://academic.oup.com/jpart/article-abstract/16/2/289/908278/Comparing-Public-and-Private-Sector-Decision?redirectedFrom=PDF)

What Are the Fundamental Differences Between Public and Private Sector Financial Management?

(http://smallbusiness.chron.com/fundamental-differences-between-public-private-sector-financial-management-37395.html)

Decision-making

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision-making)

Public And Private leadership And Performance Management (attached)

Hello there,

Since private-public partnerships have been given high regards and importance in almost every field these days and also the job demands understanding each other section we are associated with and its working it is imperative for everyone working in any sector may be to know the similarities and differences among both these sectors, it also enables us to increase our reach with respect to job, research and advances in our field as well.

Regards

Hello Sidheswar Patra

please check the resources related to your topic

http://www.esade.edu/public/modules.php?name=news&idnew=676&idissue=57&newlang=english