-
作者：Veronesi, Gianluca; Kirkpatrick, Ian; Altanlar, Ali; Sarto, Fabrizia
作者单位：University of Bristol; Aarhus University; University of York - UK; University of Leeds; University of Naples Federico II
摘要：The process of corporatization in public services has led to the emergence of new, more autonomous organizational forms. However, while these reforms have been centrally about the development of management capabilities in public sector organizations, we know surprisingly little about what this process involves. To address this concern, we draw on the literature on administrative intensity (AI) to frame hypotheses about the likely relationship between corporatization and investments in manageme...
-
作者：Wong, Jade
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Oxford
摘要：Policy is not only made by street-level bureaucrats at the frontlines. It is also made by their superiors-street-level managers-who set the organizational conditions through which street-level bureaucrats act. Although scholars have documented how street-level bureaucrats cope with the pressures of their work by, for instance, breaking or bending rules, the question of how street-level managers cope with the pressures of their own work has received less attention. Drawing from ethnographic dat...
-
作者：Krause, George A.; Park, Jungyeon
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of South Alabama
摘要：Although the Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires that agency EEO directors serve under the direct supervision of agency heads, considerable variation exists on whether agencies adequately implement this requirement into practice by adopting a formal mechanism termed a coordinated reporting organizational arrangement (CROA). A dual exposure-informal resolution strategy is proposed to understand how CROAs improve US federal agencies' organizational efforts at managing wor...
-
作者：Ray, Victor; Herd, Pamela; Moynihan, Donald
作者单位：University of Iowa; Georgetown University
摘要：This article develops the concept of racialized burdens as a means of examining the role of race in administrative practice. Racialized burdens are the experience of learning, compliance and psychological costs that serve as inequality reproducing mechanisms. To develop this concept, we examine administrative burdens in the US state from the theoretical perspective of racialized organizations. Using examples from attempts to access citizenship rights-via immigration, voting and the social safe...
-
作者：Lenz, Alexa; Eckhard, Steffen
作者单位：University of Konstanz; University of Munich; Zeppelin University
摘要：Flexibility in administrative crisis management is a frequently reported determinant for a successful crisis response. But there is little agreement about how to conceptualize, measure, and explain flexibility. We use a three-dimensional measure of administrative flexibility, capturing employees' decision leeway, staff mobility, and organizational innovation in a crisis response. We then develop and test an explanation of variation in flexibility, focusing on the refugee crisis of 2015/16 in G...
-
作者：Luo, Wei; Zheng, Wenjuan; Long, Yan
作者单位：Peking University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Around the world, voluntary programs are an increasingly prevalent regulatory instrument in governing nonprofit organizations. But accounts of mechanisms driving nonprofits' participation in those programs are underdeveloped. This article combines and expands insights from voluntary regulation and institutional work theories to examine the impact of government's informal relational work on nonprofits' regulatory participation. Drawing on interviews and survey data from a random sample of 203 n...
-
作者：Mehdi, Qasim; Nabatchi, Tina
作者单位：Syracuse University
摘要：Environmental collaboration has become an increasingly common approach to the management of natural resources. Scholars and practitioners have tried to understand how collaborative structures impact performance using a multitude of single case studies and comparative studies. However, despite calls for the evaluation of collaborative performance, minimal quantitative research explores the connections between collaborative structures and performance using a large sample for analysis. We address...
-
作者：Harris, Adam S.; Meyer-Sahling, Jan-Hinrik; Mikkelsen, Kim Sass; Schuster, Christian
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Nottingham; Roskilde University
摘要：Public service delivery by African states is often characterized as particularist, favoring ethnic, personal or political networks of those inside the state over universalist, pro-social services to citizens. One explanation for particularist service delivery focuses on societal patronage norms, with Big Men providing for members of their networks. Despite the prominence of this line of reasoning and the anecdotal prevalence of Big Men in politics and society, hardly any research has quantitat...
-
作者：Chen, Xin; Sullivan, Andrew A.
作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University; Southern Illinois University System; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
摘要：What drives collaborating participants to leave collaborative arrangements? Collaboration is a dynamic and emergent process rather than a static condition. Previous studies focus on collaboration's emergence and performance; few empirical studies examine why participants stop collaborating. We address this question by studying how the history and structure of the Illinois enterprise zone program relate to local governments' renewing enterprise zone arrangements. We formulate hypotheses and pro...
-
作者：Wei, Wenchi; Wang, Chengwei; Zhai, Wenkang; Li, Wenzhao
作者单位：Renmin University of China; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This article examines how the use of an honor list and shame roll as a means of performance feedback can influence governments' future performance improvement, focusing on a prominent performance management reform implemented in Chinese local governments. We draw upon classic behavioral theories of organizations to propose testable hypotheses. The empirical analyses use 3,300 observations based on the 333 grassroots governments of the capital city of China as the unit of analysis. Regression d...
