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作者：Lu, Xiaoli; Xue, Lan
作者单位：Tsinghua University
摘要：China built a new National Emergency Management System (NEMS) after the 2003 SARS crisis to cope with the challenges of crisis and disaster management, particularly the challenge of joint sense-making. This article investigates how the NEMS addresses joint sense-making challenges in crisis management. It explores several recent crises in China to uncover factors that undermine or facilitate joint sense-making. Our study unearths a low degree of professionalization, plans that do not match cris...
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作者：Mele, Valentina; Anderfuhren-Biget, Simon; Varone, Frederic
作者单位：Bocconi University; University of Geneva
摘要：The independence of international civil servants (ICSs) from their country of origin is often presumed but rarely accounted for empirically. In order to address this gap, we investigate whether ICSs face conflicts between national and international interests and which conditions are more conducive to the manifestation of this conflict in international organizations. We adopt amixed-methods design, including a survey with 1,400 respondents working in two United Nations humanitarian organization...
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作者：Bach, Tobias; De Francesco, Fabrizio; Maggetti, Martino; Ruffing, Eva
作者单位：University of Oslo; University of Strathclyde; University of Lausanne; Leibniz University Hannover
摘要：This contribution introduces our symposium by highlighting four distinctive aspects of transnational governance from a bureaucratic politics perspective: the emergence of transnational institutions, their functioning, their impact on the domestic level, and the diffusion of regulatory standards. The general argument is that many accounts of transnational governance seem to be overly optimistic about the conditions for effective problem-solving and fail to take into account that institutional r...
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作者：De Widt, Dennis
作者单位：University of Exeter
摘要：This article investigates the impact of institutional factors on the relationship between grant funding and local debt in England and Germany. Using a panel dataset covering the period 2005-12, the research identifies a positive relationship between grants and local debt. The positive relationship between grants and debt is reduced due to the impact of political and administrative variables. The findings demonstrate three shortcomings of the current literature. First, in contrast to the domina...
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作者：Ferlie, Ewan; Ledger, Jean; Dopson, Sue; Fischer, Michael D.; Fitzgerald, Louise; McGivern, Gerry; Bennett, Chris
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; University of Oxford; University of Melbourne; University of Warwick; University of London; King's College London
摘要：Have generic management texts and associated knowledges now extensively diffused into public services organizations? If so, why? Our empirical study of English healthcare organizations detects an extensive presence of such texts. We argue that their ready diffusion relates to two macro-level forces: (i) the influence of the underlying political economy of public services reform and (ii) a strongly developed business school/management consulting knowledge nexus. This macro perspective theoretic...
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作者：Conner, Thaddieus W.; Nowlin, Matthew C.; Rabovsky, Thomas; Ripberger, Joseph T.
作者单位：New Mexico State University; College of Charleston; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Public administration theorists have long argued that values of administrative actors fundamentally shape the quality and nature of the public services they provide. While there has been some work in recent years to measure values in the public sector like Public Service Motivation, we know relatively little about the role that other (more basic) values play in shaping managerial behaviour. To fill this gap, we argue that Cultural Theory (CT), a prominent theory within research on risk and pub...
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作者：Copeland, Paul
作者单位：University of London; Queen Mary University London
摘要：This article analyses the UK's engagement with, and the subsequent impact of, the European Employment Strategy (EES). In doing so, it provides an example of the process of Europeanization under the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in a Eurosceptic centralized polity. Under New Labour (1997-2010) the UK actively engaged to upload its preferences to the European political arena. At the national level, the UK experienced a process of Europeanization that was most evident in the cognitive and pro...
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作者：Heims, Eva M.
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：Coordination between national regulators in EU agencies is based on a variety of mechanisms - such as mutual exchange and hierarchy - which the existing literature has extensively documented. However, it has paid less attention to explaining such variation. This article suggests that cultural theory can systematically integrate the observation of varied coordination mechanisms into one framework. More crucially, cultural theory also provides a coherent theoretical explanation for variation of ...
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作者：Ma, Liang
作者单位：Renmin University of China; Nanyang Technological University
摘要：Organizational goals shape performance feedback and have salient influences on strategic behaviours and outcomes. I develop a model of goal-setting by combining performance gap and bureaucratic control theories. I predict that governments set goal levels historically in line with their past goal levels and attainment discrepancies, horizontally targeting the comparable peers' goal levels and performance gaps, and vertically aligning with the upper-tier authorities' mandates. Using the data on ...
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作者：Millward, Robert
作者单位：University of Manchester
