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作者：Guo, Chao
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：This study uses board governance as an analytical lens for exploring the effects of government funding on the representational capacities of nonprofit organizations. A typology of governance patterns is first developed that captures the boards strength relative to the chief executive and its representation of community interests. Using this typology and employing multinomial logit analyses of survey data from a sample of urban charitable organizations, the study tests bow nonprofit governance ...
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作者：Hackler, Darrene; Saxton, Gregory D.
作者单位：George Mason University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport
摘要：How are nonprofits using information technology to enhance mission-related outcomes and boost organizational performance? The authors examine a large-scale survey of nonprofits' technology planning, acquisition, and implementation to assess the strategic use of IT in these organizations. They evaluate nonprofits' strategic technology-use potential by examining IT-related competencies and practices that are critical for the successful strategic employment of technology resources. Several promis...
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作者：Ni, Anna Ya; Bretschneider, Stuart
作者单位：Syracuse University; Syracuse University
摘要：Government contracting, especially for information technology products and services, has accelerated in recent years in the United States. Drawing on the insights of privatization studies, the authors examine the economic and political rationales underpinning government decisions to contract out e-government services. This article tests the extent to which economic and political rationality influence governments' contracting decisions using data from multiple sources: a survey conducted by Nat...
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作者：Hodge, Graeme A.; Greve, Carsten
作者单位：Monash University; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Public-private partnerships are enjoying a global resurgence in popularity, but there is still much confusion around notions of partnership, what can be learned from our history with partnerships, and what is new about the partnership forms that are in vogue today. Looking at one particular family of public-private partnerships, the long-term infrastructure contract, this article argues that evaluations thus far point to contradictory results regarding their effectiveness. Despite their contin...
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作者：Rainey, Hal G.; Thompson, James R.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
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作者：Bernier, Luc; Hafsi, Taieb
作者单位：University of Quebec; Ecole National Administration Publique Canada; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要：This article proposes a cyclical theory of public entrepreneurship that is rooted in contextual conditions. The authors use material p resented to the Institute of Public Administration of Canada for the annual innovation award, as well as an extensive literature review, to illustrate a new model for public entrepreneurship, arguing that today public entrepreneurs are teams and their actions are systemic. Public entrepreneurs do not create new artifacts, nor do they design grandiose projects, ...
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作者：Lohmann, Roger A.
作者单位：West Virginia University
摘要：Nonprofit sector issues, both in public discourse and pedagogy, are too narrowly cast as problems confronting public-serving nonprofits and grant-making foundations. Consisting also of membership organizations, educational institutions, and political pressure groups, the sector constitutes a major force in society which, in its interactive entirety, might better be termed a social economy. This social economy both influences and is shaped by public administration, and it is now very much under...
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作者：Battaglio, R. Paul, Jr.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
