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作者：Foster, Chase M.
作者单位：Harvard University
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作者：Borry, Erin L.
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Birmingham
摘要：Rules help ensure consistent employee behaviour, yet rule bending occurs in public organizations every day. Previous research indicates that rule bending is influenced by organizational structure and personal characteristics (DeHart-Davis 2007). This present study considers the influence of organizational norms on rule bending by exploring the impact of ethical climate, which signals to employees the best course of action when faced with situations that are ethical in nature (Victor and Cullen...
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作者：Boon, Jan; Wynen, Jan
作者单位：University of Antwerp; KU Leuven
摘要：Governments across the globe try to rebalance their budgets by rationalizing overhead operations. When overhead-reducing policies are adopted, it is important to understand why some central government organizations have a higher overhead than others, and why organizational models to produce overhead efficiencies are used to different degrees. This study focuses on the Flemish context to analyse differences between central government organizations in the size and organization of two overhead pr...
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作者：Carter, David P.
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：Voluntary regulatory programmes embody the complex interactions that exist between public organizations and nongovernmental entities in contemporary public administration. This article draws attention to regulatee choice' in certification programmes, in which programme participants choose from among certifier alternatives. In the context of US organic regulation, regulatee choice is examined through the factors that farmers weigh when selecting from among public, nonprofit, and private certifi...
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作者：Johnston, Karen
作者单位：University of Portsmouth
摘要：The nature of work and traditional notions of the public sector have been changing with increasing collaborative governance and delivery of public services among public, private and voluntary sector organizations. In the UK, governments at national and devolved levels of government have adopted collaborative governance for service delivery through various networks and partnerships. This article explores collaborative governance from a gender perspective, specifically the perceptions of women i...
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作者：Ohberg, Patrik; Christiansen, Peter Munk; Niklasson, Birgitta
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; Aarhus University
摘要：There is limited empirical research on the extent to which politicized recruitment of ministerial advisers affects the quality of the policy process. In this article we take a novel step by looking at two possible consequences of increased political recruitment for the policy process: administrative politicization and contestability. We deploy a Most Similar Systems comparison of Denmark and Sweden and include survey answers from 657 civil servants in managerial positions. We find that politic...
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作者：Michener, Gregory; Ritter, Otavio
作者单位：Getulio Vargas Foundation
摘要：Much is known about governmental resistance to disclosure laws, less so about multi-stakeholder resistance to open data. This study compares open data initiatives within the primary and secondary school systems of Brazil and the UK, focusing on stakeholder resistance and corresponding policy solutions. The analytical framework is based on the Three-Ps' of open data resistance to performance metrics, corresponding to professional, political, and privacy-related concerns. Evidence shows that res...
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作者：Bua, Adrian
作者单位：De Montfort University
摘要：This article addresses two interrelated critiques of participatory-deliberative democratic institutions: that they are beset by problems of scale and that they achieve weak policy impact. This article tests these criticisms through the case of the UK Sustainable Communities Act (SCA), a multi-level process that is relatively strongly institutionalized. The evidence lends qualified support to these critiques. The article differentiates between contextual factors, related to the attempt to insti...
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作者：Chordiya, Rashmi; Sabharwal, Meghna; Goodman, Doug
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Public managers across countries are faced with challenges of attracting and retaining high-quality employees in the context of widespread financial constraints and increasing inter-sectoral competition. These changing circumstances have reinforced the need to enhance public employees' affective organizational commitment, which is related to important outcomes such as employees' performance and retention. However, we know little about the factors that can positively influence affective organiz...
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作者：Foster, Chase M.
作者单位：Harvard University
