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作者：Lim, Joon Hyoung; Tang, Shui-Yan
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Although e-government initiatives have been credited as engines of government reform, empirical evidence is insufficient to determine their effects on public sector performance. To explore the impact of e-government on local governance, this article examines how e-government initiatives influence the perceived performance of environmental decision making in an urban context and what organizational and contextual factors affect Web-aided decision performance. Data were collected from the conten...
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作者：Meier, Kenneth J.; Hicklin, Alisa
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Cardiff University; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Empirical studies of public employee turnover, particularly using turnover as an independent variable, are rare; and most of the literature assumes turnover to have a negative impact on organizations. This study examines a provocative but little supported hypothesis that has recently emerged in the private sector literature-that turnover may provide positive benefits to the organization, at least up to a point. Using data from several hundred public organizations over a nine-year period, we te...
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作者：Zullo, Roland
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：National Transit Data from 1993 through 2004 is analyzed to examine the effects of contracting out on the cost efficiency and resource allocation of motor bus and demand response services. For motor bus service, results indicate no difference in cost between in-house and fully contracted operations. Contracting has a weak curvilinear association to total cost, suggesting that the most cost-efficient agencies either fully contract or they provide full in-house service. In contrast, demand respo...
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作者：Rethemeyer, R. Karl; Hatmaker, Deneen M.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：Although policy and collaborative networks have been studied since the 1970s and 1980s, only recently has the management of these entities come under greater scrutiny. Studies of network management are designed to better understand the unique challenges of operating in a context where bureaucracy no longer provides the primary tool for social steering. These studies typically make three assumptions about networks, public managers, and the tasks of network management that empirical evidence fro...
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作者：Hicklin, Alisa; O'Toole, Laurence J., Jr.; Meier, Kenneth J.
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Cardiff University
摘要：Scholars of public management have consistently found that management matters, but little research has considered how much management matters or whether the link between management and performance may be contingent on various factors. This article further investigates the link between management and performance by examining the functional form of the relationship. Analyses using data from 1000+ public organizations point to some diminishing returns. Results suggest that networking with other o...
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作者：May, Peter J.; Workman, Samuel; Jones, Bryan D.
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Federal agencies are routinely confronted with requests from policymakers that they must address in some manner. These range from routine directives to cut through red tape to exceptional demands to alter policy priorities. We theorize that how attention is organized by public bureaucracies affects their responses. We draw on a variety of scholarship about public bureaucracies to develop a theory about the bureaucratic organization of attention and its consequences. In illustrating these notio...
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作者：Reenock, Christopher M.; Gerber, Brian J.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; West Virginia University
摘要：Under political uncertainty, legislative coalitions have incentives to insulate policy from future coalitions. While there is evidence of legislators' use of agency design to insulate the bureaucracy from elected officials, little is known about the ultimate consequences of such design choices on the policy participation of interest groups. How such design choices affect group access is important because of the centrality of groups in providing both bureaucratic accountability and information ...
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作者：Lubell, Mark; Fulton, Allan
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：This article emphasizes the critical role of local policy networks for the implementation of agricultural watershed management and the adoption of environmental best management practices. Local networks facilitate diffusion of innovations, the development of social capital, and cultural change. All of these elements are essential for the ability of watershed management programs to successfully solve the water quality collective action problems caused by agricultural nonpoint source pollution. ...
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作者：Wood, B. Dan; Marchbanks, Miner P., III
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：The president's role as chief executive depends on the quality and tenure of political appointees who assist with the constitutional charge to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. This study explores the determinants of the duration of political appointee service. Using an agency theory framework, we propose that appointee tenure depends on financial incentives, executive-legislative conflict, solidary, and material benefits offered by the president, as well as implicit incentives t...
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作者：Provan, Keith G.; Kenis, Patrick
作者单位：University of Arizona; Tilburg University
摘要：This article examines the governance of organizational networks and the impact of governance on network effectiveness. Three basic models, or forms, of network governance are developed focusing on their distinct structural properties. Propositions are formulated examining conditions for the effectiveness of each form. The tensions inherent in each form are then discussed, followed by the role that management may play in addressing these tensions. Finally, the evolution of governance is explored.
