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作者：Mikkelsen, Maria F.; Petersen, Niels B. G.; Bjornholt, Bente
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：This article argues and shows that performance narratives affect how and for what purposes managers use performance information independently of other known drivers of performance information use, such as the external environment and individual intra- and interorganizational characteristics. Using a survey experiment on 514 Danish public school managers, we find an asymmetrical effect of decline narratives (declining performance) and increase narratives (improving performance). In line with ex...
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作者：Berlin, Johan M.; Jansson, Magnus; Karlsson, David; Carlstrom, Eric D.
作者单位：University West - Sweden; University of Gothenburg; University of Gothenburg; University of Gothenburg; University of South-Eastern Norway
摘要：The aim of this study is to contribute to the literature on how involuntary backsourcing in public organizations is performed in practice and how it affects the relationship between principal and agent. The study focuses on two questions: (1) Which stages characterize the process when public contracts are involuntary terminated? (2) How does involuntary backsourcing affect the relationship between principal and agent during the transfer period? The study's case concerns public backsourcing in ...
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作者：Raitasuo, Santtu; Ylonen, Matti
作者单位：University of Helsinki; University of Helsinki; Tallinn University of Technology
摘要：Social scientists have neglected the ways in which the consultancy assignments of legal scholars mediate private interests, even though their opinions provide important guidance in legal proceedings. Through a case study from Finland, we document a process where private tax advisory firms utilize their access to academic forums to defend their clients' interests. With further evidence on related dependencies, we trace a twofold process that amplifies the voice of tax advisors and suppresses pu...
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作者：Sturdy, Andrew J.; Kirkpatrick, Ian; Reguera, Nuria; Blanco-Oliver, Antonio; Veronesi, Gianluca
作者单位：University of Bristol; University of York - UK; University of Sevilla
摘要：The growing use of external management consultancy services by public sector organizations has generated controversy. Some claim that users have become overreliant on, or even addicted to, this source of knowledge. However, our understanding of this phenomenon and the precise nature of its risks is underdeveloped. In this article, we address these concerns by focusing on whether using consulting services inflates future demand and on its consequences for efficiency. This is examined in the con...
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作者：Broome, Andre
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：This article explores how for-profit consultancies mediate knowledge about global benchmarks in developing countries. Drawing on the case of the Ease of Doing Business rankings, published annually by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation between 2005 and 2019, it examines the role consultancies play as knowledge brokers connecting global benchmarks produced by intergovernmental organizations to regulatory reform programs undertaken by national public administrations. The art...
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作者：Munoz Aravena, Waleska Tatiana
作者单位：Universidad de Concepcion
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作者：Laage-Thomsen, Jakob
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Recent work on consultants and academics in public policy has highlighted their transformational role. The paper traces how, in the absence of an explicit government strategy, external advisors establish different organizational arrangements to build Behavioral Insights in public agencies as a new form of administrative expertise. This variation shows the importance of the politico-administrative context within which external advisors exert influence. The focus on professional expertise adds t...
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作者：Parker, Charles F.; Stern, Eric K.
作者单位：Uppsala University; Uppsala University; Centre of Natural Hazards & Disaster Science (CNDS); State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：This article examines the Trump Administration's inability to mount a timely and effective response to the COVID-19 outbreak, despite ample warning. Through an empirical exploration guided by three explanatory perspectives-psychological, bureau-organizational, and agenda-political-developed from the strategic surprise, public administration, and crisis management literature, the authors seek to shed light on the mechanisms that contributed to the underestimation of the coronavirus threat by th...
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作者：Tsingou, Eleni
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Efforts to combat global money laundering have established a transnational administrative regime that provides peer review mutual evaluations that are coordinated among national public administrations. Led by the Financial Action Task Force, this regime encourages compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) standards to detect effectiveness in administrative capacity despite an absence of reliable data on money laundering activity. This article examines how national administrations engage diff...
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作者：Schiff, Daniel S.; Schiff, Kaylyn Jackson; Pierson, Patrick
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Emory University
摘要：In the context of rising delegation of administrative discretion to advanced technologies, this study aims to quantitatively assess key public values that may be at risk when governments employ automated decision systems (ADS). Drawing on the public value failure framework coupled with experimental methodology, we address the need to measure and compare the salience of three such values-fairness, transparency, and human responsiveness. Based on a preregistered design, we administer a survey ex...
