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The goals of the field of public administration are related to the democratic values of improving equality, justice, security, efficiency, effectiveness of public services usually in a non-profit, non-taxable venue ; business administration, on the other hand, is primarily concerned with taxable profit.

For a field built on concepts ( accountability, governance, decentralization, clientele ), these concepts are often ill-defined and typologies often ignore certain aspects of these concepts ( Dubois & Fattore 2009 ).