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作者：Brewer, Gene A.; Walker, Richard M.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：In recent years, many public sector reforms have attempted to loosen personnel constraints on the assumption that more managerial flexibility will increase organizational performance. The authors mount an empirical study to test this assumption using data taken from English local government authorities. Personnel constraints are operationalized using Rainey's long-standing measures of the concept. Statistical results from multiple regression analyses indicate that difficulty in removing poor m...
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作者：Benjamin, Elisabeth R.; Slagle, Arianne; Jones, David R.
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作者：White, Joseph
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：This Perspective explains why implementation analysis of the cost control provisions within the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is not particularly useful. These provisions are either relatively straightforward or, more commonly, so flawed that successful implementation is highly unlikely. The analysis shows that effective and equitable cost control will require coordinating payers to create all-payer fee setting. This poses significant challenges but has been implemented relatively...
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作者：Eshuis, Jasper; Braun, Erik; Klijn, Erik-Hans
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Place marketing is increasingly being used as a governance strategy for managing perceptions about regions, cities, and towns. What are the most important obstacles to implementing place marketing? Based on a survey of 274 public managers involved in place marketing in the Netherlands, this article analyzes the main obstacles as perceived by public managers. It also analyzes the effects of obstacles on perceived results of place marketing in terms of attracting target groups. A factor analysis...
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作者：Ciambra, Andrea
作者单位：University of Trento
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作者：Clerkin, Richard M.; Paarlberg, Laurie E.; Christensen, Robert K.; Nesbit, Rebecca A.; Tschirhart, Mary
作者单位：North Carolina State University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Wilmington; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Kansas
摘要：America is a nation of movers, and this has implications for public and nonprofit managers who rely on donations and volunteers to increase the capacity of nonprofits and to strengthen local communities. This article explores the impact of time and place on philanthropic engagement, focusing on how three aspects of community-sense of belonging, social connections, and regional culture-are related to volunteering and giving to local organizations. The authors find that geographic mobility affec...
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作者：Petersen, Nils
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作者：McGrath, Robert J.
作者单位：George Mason University
摘要：Initiated by a 1996 Georgia statute, radical civil service reform quickly swept the United States. This article explains the wax and eventual wane of state efforts to increase the number of at-will employees at the expense of the population of fully protected merit system employees. Using an event history approach to explain this policy diffusion with state-level variables, the author shows that electoral competition and gubernatorial powers are the most significant determinants of this kind o...
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作者：Kim, Hyunjung; MacDonald, Roderick H.; Andersen, David F.
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Chico; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：Systems approaches present opportunities for public managers and policy makers to view policies and programs in a broader context. This article presents a framework to explain how simulation modeling promotes double-loop learning in management teams by building and exploring collective mental models as well as by enhancing accuracy of the mental models. The authors discuss the types of problems that may benefit from simulation modeling and illustrate how double-loop learning occurs in the proc...
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作者：Yang, Yongheng; Hou, Yilin; Wang, Youqiang
作者单位：Tsinghua University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：This article develops a generic framework to explain the environment for publicprivate partnership (PPP) development in transitional economies. The framework stands on a tripod that includes the market, the operating environment, and the government, each containing several factors that support aspects of PPPs. The authors apply the framework to analyze the results of a multicountry survey in an effort to identify key factors that facilitate PPP development in transition countries. The identifi...
