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作者：Bilodeau, Nancy; Laurin, Claude; Vining, Aidan
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Simon Fraser University
摘要：The new public management includes a portfolio of prescriptions that involve reconfiguring the boundaries of government agencies. One form of reconfiguration is corporatization. Corporatization creates separate agencies that have a contractlike relationship with a ministry or oversight agencies. Corporatization usually comprises a portfolio of changes that attempt to make agencies more businesslike. Although corporatization is now popular with governments around the world, there is little empi...
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作者：Wilkins, Vicky M.
摘要：Using the theoretical framework posited by Keiser et al. (2002), researchers have found active representation for gender in several public organizations (Keiser et al. 2002; Nicholson-Crotty and Meier 2002; Wilkins and Keiser 2006). This article uses individual-level data to explore the causal story behind previous aggregate level findings that suggest that female child support enforcement supervisors provide active representation to female clients, who directly benefit from increased child su...
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作者：Skelcher, Chris
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：The next big step in public management research is to move beyond the question of whether management matters to answer the question: does democracy matter? The public management discipline has largely ignored the impact of democratic structure on performance, partly because of limited variation in the constitutional design of public service organizations. Recent growth in the number and types of special purpose governments offers an organizational population with a wider distribution on the de...
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作者：Gano, Gretchen L.; Crowley, Jocelyn Elise; Guston, David
作者单位：Yale University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Knowledge utilization studies aim to understand the pathways whereby research moves from a specific set of producers to a specific set of consumers. Broadly speaking, two sets of explanations exist: (1) the engineering model, which focuses on the inevitability of science in advancing knowledge, and (2) the socio-organizational model, which stresses the importance of communication between and among groups as the critical factor in promoting utilization. This study asks both research managers at...
