Managerial strategies and behavior in networks: A model with evidence from US public education

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Meier, KJ; O'Toole, LJ Jr
• 署名单位: Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1053-1858
• DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a003503
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 271-293
• 关键词: Efficiency; schools

摘要

This manuscript provides the first systematic test of a formal theory of managing government programs in a network context (see O'Toole and Meier 1999). Using data from several hundred school districts in Texas, we create a measure of network management that reflects the time school superintendents interact with several sets of significant actors in the environment. We find that network management is not only related to overall organizational performance, it has positive impacts even in the presence of a lagged dependent variable. Further, management appears to interact with other organizational resources in a nonlinear manner to further augment organizational performance. Although public school networks are not as complicated or as populated as those of many other public organizations, the findings suggest how management might matter in these other networks.