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作者：Salge, Torsten O.
作者单位：Ruhr University Bochum
摘要：This article examines the generative mechanisms and underlying contingencies of innovative search. Extending behavioral arguments to the public sector context, it proposes that changes in innovative activity reflect either of two organizational search processes. The first process, commonly known as problemistic search, is triggered by negative performance feedback and initiated to identify appropriate solutions for the performance problem at hand. The second process is known as slack search. I...
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作者：Georgellis, Yannis; Iossa, Elisabetta; Tabvuma, Vurain
作者单位：Bournemouth University; Brunel University; University of Rome Tor Vergata
摘要：Employing intrinsically motivated individuals has been proposed as a means of improving public sector performance. In this article, we investigate whether intrinsic motivation affects the sorting of employees between the private and the public sectors, paying particular attention to whether extrinsic rewards crowd out intrinsic motivation. Using British longitudinal data, we find that individuals are attracted to the public sector by the intrinsic rather than the extrinsic rewards that the sec...
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作者：Donahue, Amy K.
作者单位：University of Connecticut
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作者：Lavertu, Stephane; Weimer, David L.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Policy makers in the US federal government regularly consult advisory committees, but there is little systematic research on how committee advice influences executive branch policy making. We investigate the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) use of advisory committees when deciding whether or not to approve pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices for marketing. Specifically, using 1997-2006 drug and device approval data, we estimate the influence of committee advice on FDA decision making....
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作者：Van Ryzin, Gregg G.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark
摘要：The contemporary performance movement has tended to assume that a key to restoring public trust in civil servants lies in a focus on outcomes or results. But there is growing evidence from various fields that trust in people and institutions of authority often depends more on process (such as fairness and equity) than on outcomes. This finding that process matters in the formation of trust judgments appears across a wide range of settings (police, courts, work places), yet it has not been adeq...
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作者：James, Oliver
作者单位：University of Exeter
摘要：There has been a massive expansion in published information about the performance of bodies delivering public services but little research about the effects on citizens. Research on information and political participation suggests that information cues allow citizens to economize on the need for full information, influencing their perceptions and attitudes and helping them hold democratic governments to account. This article uses field and laboratory experiments with random allocation to citiz...
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作者：Brodkin, Evelyn Z.
作者单位：University of Chicago
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作者：Walker, Richard M.
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作者：Brewer, Gene A.; Walker, Richard M.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Hong Kong; Cardiff University
摘要：This study investigates the impact of red tape on governmental performance in the context of English local government. Both the red tape and performance constructs are multidimensional, so relationships between the concepts and their several dimensions are examined in detail. The results show that different types of red tape have varying impacts on governmental performance but that these effects are somewhat weaker than public management theory and conventional wisdom suggest. Moreover, some t...
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作者：Breunig, Christian; Koski, Chris; Mortensen, Peter B.
作者单位：University of Toronto; James Madison University; Aarhus University
摘要：This article provides a comprehensive analysis of stability and punctuations in public spending within and across two different countries-Denmark and the United States. The theoretical starting point is the classic model of budget incrementalism and Jones and Baumgartner's model of disproportionate information processing. First, despite the clear differences in institutional setup, we show that public spending spanning many decades in Denmark and the United States are characterized by a simila...
