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作者：Musso, JA
作者单位：University of Southern California
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作者：Considine, M; Lewis, JM
作者单位：University of Melbourne
摘要：Many governments have attempted to reform their public management systems over the past decade. But how do reforms play out at the frontline of government where the work is done We looked at the impacts of system changes on frontline staff. In an effort to understand the actual work orientations of frontline bureaucrats, we identified four distinctive images of bureaucratic work: procedural bureaucracy, corporate bureaucracy, market bureaucracy, and network bureaucracy These images each have d...
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作者：Moon, MJ
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver
摘要：While there are extensive interdisciplinary studies on entrepreneurship and there continue to be attempts to introduce entrepreneurship in the public sector, we still lack rigorous empirical studies about entrepreneurship. This study first defines three dimensions of managerial entrepreneurship in public and private organizations: I) product-based entrepreneurship (enhancing customer satisfaction); 2) process-based entrepreneurship (reducing the level of red tape); and 3) behavior-based entrep...
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作者：Brinkerhoff, DW; Coston, JM
作者单位：ABT Associates; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Camden; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：Is development management, as a subfield of international and comparative administration, still relevant and applicable to the administrative problems facing today's managers in developing and transitional economies? The authors answer this question by exploring the implications of globalization for development management. They identify the global trend with the most direct impacts an governance and management in developing and transitional economies, and analyze how these relate to the theory...
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作者：Meier, KJ; Polinard, JL; Wrinkle, RD
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; University of Texas System; University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
摘要：The most common view of political institutions and their control over bureaucracy is the principal-agent model That model assumes that politicians and bureaucrats disagree over goals and the means to obtain those goals It also assumes that bureaucrats have access to valuable information that politicians do not have. Agricultural credit is a policy area that does not fit these assumptions. In it we find a version of bottom-line oversight, whereby the agency has clear goals and political institu...
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作者：Johnston, JM; Romzek, BS
作者单位：University of Kansas
摘要：Medicaid reform, which has been central to state government reform throughout the United States, represents conceptual and implementation challenges for practitioners and scholars. This article investigates one such reform, in Kansas, where the state contracted with nonprofit agencies for Medicaid case management services We examine policy rationales for this social service reform in light of the actual economic and management environments. We offer a typology of contract management complexity...
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作者：Portz, JH; Reidy, M; Rochefort, DA
作者单位：Northeastern University
摘要：The spread of managed rare is rapidly transforming the nation's health rare system. Less well noted, however, is the way this transformation is also reshaping Medicaid-and other public health-care bureaucracies-across administration internal operations, and policymaking areas. In this article, we examine how managed care has contributed to reinventing government in such bureaucracies, paying particular attention to shifts in organisational mission, competitive contracting, performance measurem...
