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作者：Forum, Bjorn Mo
作者单位：University of Oslo
摘要：Politically motivated personnel turnover affects government bureaucracy's legitimacy and performance. To understand the conditions of meritocracy, the article explores how variability in hierarchy moderates the effect of government transitions on bureaucratic turnover. Event history analysis of the careers of 948 Norwegian senior bureaucrats (1884-2024) reveals that the organizational layers separating bureaucrats from ministers moderate the effect of government change differently depending on...
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作者：Zhang, Jinfeng; Song, Minjie; Qin, Zengqiang; Xu, Ran; Ran, Rong
作者单位：Chongqing University; Chongqing University; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China
摘要：Public officials are traditionally thought to be more risk-averse than private sector employees, yet consistent empirical evidence is lacking. Prospect theory posits that individuals' risk decision preferences are influenced by the framing of gains or losses, but it does not distinguish whether gains and losses pertain to personal or public interests. This study incorporates the type of interest with gain-loss framing to construct decision scenarios and compare risk preferences between public ...
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作者：de Pilla, Leonardo Henrique Lima; Peci, Alketa; Leite, Rodrigo de Oliveira
摘要：Corporatization in the public sector entails decentralizing the provision of public goods and services to more autonomous entities, including state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Research indicates that the decision to corporatize is driven, among other factors, by the pursuit of financial sustainability in public organizations. A continuing debate revolves around whether the political ideology of incumbents is linked to the creation of SOEs. However, limited attention has been given to understandi...
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作者：Jugl, Marlene
作者单位：Bocconi University
摘要：Administrative traditions (AT) are a prominent approach to classify and compare administrative systems across countries, yet there is a lack of agreement on the definition and conceptual dimensions of AT. This article addresses this gap by synthesizing existing knowledge on AT and refining its conceptualization in three steps. First, a systematic review of 505 publications since 1998 elucidates the diverse understandings of AT and the study contexts in which the concept is used. Secondly, ten ...
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作者：Nowlan, Oscar
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This article examines blame shifting, where elected officials attempt to deflect blame for negative outcomes onto other actors. While prior research suggests that citizens generally disapprove of this tactic, this study re-evaluates how contextual factors shape these reactions, focusing specifically on cases of public service failure. In many areas of public management, service delivery is delegated or contracted out to public or private organizations, raising the question of whether such inst...
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作者：Jiang, Hanchen; Zhang, Chuping; Zhang, Jingyu
作者单位：University of International Business & Economics; Tsinghua University
摘要：Top managers hold a significant position in the functioning of public organizations. While existing studies have predominantly investigated the impacts of individual characteristics of top managers on public organizational outcomes, limited attention has been given to heterogeneity, especially nondemographic heterogeneity, among them. This study focuses on the impact of language dissimilarity among top managers in public organizations and proposes that the dissimilarity can negatively influenc...
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作者：Keppeler, Florian; Borchert, Jana; Pedersen, Mogens Jin; Nielsen, Vibeke Lehmann
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作者：Kleizen, Bjorn; Van Dooren, Wouter; Maccarthaigh, Muiris; Vanden Abbeele, Celine
作者单位：University of Antwerp; Queens University Belfast
摘要：In recent years, there have been numerous cases where citizens have found themselves stuck in highly protracted administrative processes affecting outcomes vital to their lives and livelihoods. However, systematic inquiries into the experience of being trapped by bureaucratic procedures or state inaction for sometimes multiple years are still lacking. To study the interactions between citizens and the state when long waiting times and significant outcomes are involved, we introduce the concept...
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作者：Jeong, Youkyoung; Song, Jongdae
作者单位：Korea University; Gyeongkuk National University
摘要：This study advances a deeper understanding of the antecedents and mediators of goal ambiguity within public organizations. Expanding upon the established notion of the negative relationship between goal ambiguity and performance in public organizations, this study goes one step further by exploring how exogenous shocks may exacerbate this adverse impact. Focusing on the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent responses taken by the South Korean government, this study aims to offer a...
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作者：Nowell, Brand; Steelman, Toddi
作者单位：North Carolina State University; Duke University
摘要：The theoretical literature on social capital and disasters, as well as conventional wisdom, suggests the importance of pre-disaster relationship building among leaders of responding organizations and agencies for disaster readiness and response. Often implied, but rarely tested empirically, research presumes a positive and linear relationship associated with investments in social capital for effective disaster response. Any amount of relationship building is better than none, but more is bette...
