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作者:Toregas, C
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作者:Borins, S
作者单位:University of Toronto
摘要:One element of the debate over New Public Management concerns public-sector entrepreneurship. Critics see entrepreneurs as people prone to rule breaking, self-promotion, and unwarranted risk taking, while proponents view them as exercising leadership and faking astute initiatives. This article examines two samples of the best applications to the Ford Foundation-Kennedy School of Government innovation awards, one between 1990 and 1994 and the other between 1995 and 1998, to see whether they are...
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作者:Fredericksen, P; London, R
作者单位:Eastern Washington University; University of Texas System; University of Texas El Paso
摘要:Partnerships between government and community-based development organizations (CBDOs) have proven to be central to long-term neighborhood revitalization in many settings. These successes, coupled with the political popularity of community-driven projects, have stimulated further reliance on this approach. Unfortunately scant research has been done on the organizational capacity of local community-based development organizations to administer these projects. If may be that many of them do not h...
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作者:Bryson, JM; Anderson, SR
作者单位:University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要:Public policy makers, planners, and managers are increasingly relying on what might be called large-group interaction methods to involve large numbers of people (from as few as eight to more than 2,000) in planning and implementing major change efforts. These methods are structured processes for engaging large numbers of people to: (1) enhance the amount of relevant information brought to bear on a problem; (2) build commitment to problem definitions and solutions; (3) fuse planning and implem...