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作者：Cloutier, Charlotte; Denis, Jean-Louis; Langley, Ann; Lamothe, Lise
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; University of Quebec; Ecole National Administration Publique Canada; Universite de Montreal
摘要：This article draws on recent developments in institutional theory to better understand the managerial efforts implicated in the implementation of government-led reforms in public sector services. Based on a longitudinal study of a massive reform effort aimed at transforming the province of Quebec's publicly-funded healthcare system, the article applies the notion of institutional work to understand how managers responsible for newly formed healthcare organizations defined and carried out their...
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作者：Palus, Christine Kelleher; Yackee, Susan Webb
作者单位：Villanova University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Scholars often assert that the delegation of policy discretion to administrative agencies is driven, in part, by partisanship. In short, the ally principle dictates that elected officials delegate more policy discretion to agency officials when their partisanship aligns because such an alignment reduces uncertainty about future policy choices. In contrast, we draw on insights from social identity theory to theorize that partisan alignment may, in practice, decrease the overall perceived policy...
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作者：Ennser-Jedenastik, Laurenz
作者单位：University of Vienna; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
摘要：The past decades have seen a dramatic increase in the number of regulatory agencies ( RAs) across countries and policy domains. To establish credible regulatory regimes, many RAs are formally shielded from direct political influence and thus enjoy high levels of legal autonomy. While granting formal independence to an agency may erect some institutional barriers to politicization, it also generates a strong incentive to appoint ideologically likeminded individuals to the agency leadership. An ...
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作者：Lewis, Gregory B.; Stoycheva, Rayna L.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University of Miami
摘要：Public pension plans face pressures to cut costs. Although government costs and retiree benefits drive changes in retirement plans, policy makers should also consider impacts on turnover and retirement behavior. In the mid-1980s, Congress moved new federal employees from a traditional defined benefit (DB) pension plan to a new hybrid plan, comprised of a smaller DB plan, Social Security, and a new defined contribution (DC) plan. Early analyses of the change from the Civil Service Retirement Sy...
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作者：Pierre, Jon
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; University of Melbourne
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作者：Wang, Weijie
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作者：Musheno, Michael
作者单位：University of Oregon
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作者：Andrews, Rhys; Beynon, Malcolm J.; McDermott, Aoife M.
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：This article brings together resource-based theory and contingency theory to analyze organizational capability in the public sector. Fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis is used to identify configurations of organizational attributes (department size, structural complexity, agencification, personnel instability, use of temporary employees), associated with high and low organizational capability in UK central government departments. Findings identify a single core configuration of organiz...
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作者：Anderson, Derrick M.; Stritch, Justin M.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：This article examines the relationships among task goal clarity, task significance, and individual-level task performance. While both goals and task significance are important in extant public-management research, a theoretical integration of the variables is needed. This study makes the theoretical contribution of explaining how these variables might work together in a public organization. In addition to examining the relationship between task goal clarity and performance, we consider how tas...
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作者：Hatmaker, Deneen M.
作者单位：University of Connecticut
