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作者：Vakkuri, Jarmo
作者单位：Tampere University
摘要：Improving public sector performance involves both 'knowing' and 'doing' problems. With the emphasis on the 'doing' problem, this study examines public managers as users of management instruments (MI) in attempts to improve the performance of public services. The article explores uses of three MIs in Finnish local government by using the conceptual framework of ambiguity. The article demonstrates why and how the use of MIs does not always simplify the public management exercise. It may become e...
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作者：Goldfinch, Shaun; Wallis, Joe
作者单位：University of Nottingham; American University of Sharjah
摘要：The literature on public management reform exhibits two intertwined convergence myths. First, a world-wide consensus on a new public management (NPM) reform agenda is seen to exist amongst policy reformers and practitioners. If this agenda is not fully implemented in all cases, this is generally explained by political and reform setbacks rather than disagreement on policy aims. Second, this NPM agenda is now seen as challenged and even abandoned and replaced by an emergent post-NPM or 'public ...
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作者：Meier, Kenneth J.; O'Toole, Laurence J., Jr.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Cardiff University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Networks and managing in the network have been central concerns of public management scholars for years (Provan and Milward 1991; O'Toole 1997; Agranoff and McGuire 2003; Herranz 2008). The literature has investigated the extent of networks (Hall and O'Toole 2004), the appropriate way to measure networks and networking behaviour (McGuire 2002; Meier and O'Toole 2005), and the role that networking plays in improving organizational performance (O'Toole and Meier 2003). Although there are qualifi...
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作者：Kuhlmann, Sabine
摘要：The article is aimed at analysing New Public Management (NPM) reforms at the local level in Germany, France and Italy. The case selection is justified by the fact that these three 'classical' Continental European countries have largely been missing from comparative administrative research thus far. The article focuses on local governments, since in all three countries these are considered the NPM forerunners and are acknowledged to be more advanced in reform implementation than are upper level...
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作者：O'Reilly, Dermot; Reed, Mike
作者单位：Lancaster University; Cardiff University
摘要：This paper argues that 'leaderism' - as an emerging set of beliefs that frames and justifies certain innovatory changes in contemporary organizational and managerial practice - is a development of managerialism that has been utilized and applied within the policy discourse of public service reform in the UK. The paper suggests that 'leaderism' is an evolution of entrepreneurial and cultural management ideologies and practices. An analysis of the articulation of leaderism with public service re...
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作者：Klijn, Erik-Hans; Steijn, Bram; Edelenbos, Jurian
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：There is a large amount of literature and research on network management strategies. However, only a limited portion of this literature examines the relationship between network management strategies and outcomes (for an exception, see Meier and O'Toole 2001). Most of the research focuses on managerial activity or networking rather than on the question of which types of strategies matter the most for outcomes of complex processes in networks. This paper attempts to address the question of whet...
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作者：May, Christopher
作者单位：Lancaster University
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作者：Skelcher, Chris
作者单位：University of Birmingham
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作者：Fernandez, Sergio; Wise, Lois R.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Organizational change sometimes occurs as organizations 'ingest' innovations from without. This process represents a vital form of organizational learning and adaptation to the external environment. This study seeks to understand the factors that predict the adoption of Foreign Professional Specialty Occupation Visas, or H-1B visas, by Texas public school districts. The use of H-1B visas to hire foreign skilled workers is a staffing innovation that is growing in use among public and private or...
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作者：Taylor, Jeannette
作者单位：University of Western Australia
摘要：Using the 2005 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes dataset, this study compares the public service motivation (PSM), and civic attitudes and actions of public, nonprofit and private sector employees in Australia. Sectoral similarities and differences were noted. This research also analyses the relationships between PSM and civic attitudes and behaviours of these groups of employees. High PSM employees were found to have higher confidence in key national public and private institutions, place...
