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作者：Enticott, Gareth; Boyne, George A.; Walker, Richard M.
作者单位：Cardiff University; University of Hong Kong
摘要：Surveys are an important methodological tool in public management research. Multiple informant surveys are held to have considerable methodological advantages over elite surveys (the practice of surveying a top manager, e.g., a chief executive). Although in principle multiple informant surveys can provide a more accurate organizational picture, problems of data aggregation arise in practice. To promote better use of multiple informant surveys, this article reviews approaches to aggregating org...
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作者：Theobald, Nick A.; Haider-Markel, Donald P.
作者单位：California State University System; California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo; University of Kansas
摘要：Our understanding of representation by government employees has increased considerably in the past 30 years. Scholars have found that represented groups benefit from representative bureaucracies and conclude that this benefit is a function of active representation. However, due to the aggregate unit of observation used in most of these studies and the outcome measures that are typically used as dependent variables, we argue that there are other forms of representation that can explain these fi...
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作者：Wenger, Jeffrey B.; Wilkins, Vicky M.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Automation curtails the discretion of street-level bureaucrats in several ways: bureaucrats have little control over the input of data by claimants, management has increased opportunities for monitoring, and given the possibility that clients will deal with multiple bureaucrats, coworkers can now identify rogue agents. Some clients of a bureaucracy may benefit from the introduction of automation when the agency is biased against them. We test this claim by examining the recent introduction of ...
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作者：Lambright, Kristina T.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
摘要：This article uses agency and stewardship theories to explain different motivations for contracted providers to properly use service monitoring tools. To examine different motivations for proper tool use, seven case studies were conducted on early childhood programs in three communities in Upstate New York. The case studies specifically focused on the reporting forms that the early childhood programs completed. Data sources included (1) interviews with government agency and contracted provider ...
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作者：Yang, Kaifeng; Pandey, Sanjay K.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of Kansas
摘要：Political support is an important environmental factor in public management, and over the past few decades, the implementation of results-oriented reforms has become highly influential as well. However, few studies have examined the impact of these two factors on employee attitudes and behaviors. This article proposes that the extent of results-oriented reforms and political support from elected officials-025EFas perceived by managers-025EFhas a significant influence on managerial practice and...
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作者：Whitford, Andrew B.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：How governments design institutions for the revelation of information depends on how the costs and benefits are distributed across affected groups. In this study I examine the incidence of different kinds of constituencies and how governments give citizens access to information that affects them. A number of important studies have sought to understand the effect of such rules on the revelation of private information and policy outcomes, but we know little about the sources of those rules. Do t...
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作者：Avellaneda, Claudia N.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：This article presents the first empirical study in a Latin-American country on the effects of managerial quality upon municipal performance in education. Using 6 years of data from 40 Colombian municipalities, I assess the influence of mayoral qualifications-025EFeducation and job-related experience-025EFon the percentage of the eligible population actually enrolled in school. After considering other political, economic, and demographic factors, the findings show that mayoral qualifications ar...
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作者：Dull, Matthew
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：Few problems common in management reform are more prominent or more vaguely conceived than is leadership. Advocates and observers broadly agree that leadership is a critical factor where reform takes hold. Yet, in scholarship assessing the results-model management reforms proliferating in public organizations during the last decade and a half, leadership remains an elusive concept, rarely subject to empirical scrutiny. Applying the logic of credible commitment drawn from the study of instituti...
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作者：DeHart-Davis, Leisha
作者单位：University of Kansas
摘要：Public management scholars over the past decade have shed significant light on ineffective rules or red tape. This article takes a different approach by conceptualizing a theory of green tape or effective rules. The theory argues that the probability of rule effectiveness depends on the combined presence of (1) written requirements, (2) with valid means-ends relationships, which (3) employ optimal control, (4) are consistently applied, and that have (5) purposes understood by stakeholders. A s...
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作者：Al-Yahya, Khalid O.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：This article proposes and tests an integrative model of multiple associations between power-influence sharing in decision making, work-related outcomes (WRO), and organizational culture in public sector organizations in Saudi Arabia. The analysis is based on a survey of public administrators (n = 390). To date, little research has successfully addressed these conceptual linkages, especially in public sector organizations. The structural equation model analyses show that participative practices...
