Governance and Organizational Behaviour of Public Research Labs

The organization of public research labs plays a fundamental role to increase their efficiency and the production of scientific research more and more necessary to economic growth of countries. The paper presents the main organizational studies carried out on public research bodies in U.S.A. and Europe. After that this research analyzes the organization of the biggest public research body in Italy, showing the points of strength and weakness in comparison with other scientific structure. Some public management implications and relationship with bureaucracy complete the research.