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作者：Lemaire, Robin H.; Mckeague, Lauren K.; Sedgwick, Donna
作者单位：Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University; University of Montana System; University of Montana; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：The flexibility/stability tension is a key challenge for purpose-oriented networks, especially salient with network participation. Because of the voluntary nature of networks, it is common for network participation to fluctuate, with participants entering, leaving, and returning over time for a variety of reasons. This fluctuation may challenge the stability that is key to network effectiveness. Yet, despite the salience of this tension, we know little about managing the ebb and flow of networ...
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作者：Rackwitz, Maike; Raffer, Christian
作者单位：Hertie School
摘要：Why do local governments create and reform public service companies, given their uncertain economic benefits and potential damage to accountability and service transparency? Taking an extended transaction cost perspective, we argue that corporatization-the provision of public services by publicly owned companies-is a function of fiscal hardship, the decision maker's economic orientation and the level of operator transparency. Using a two-way fixed effects regression, we test this expectation o...
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作者：Zarychta, Alan; Benedum, Michelle E.; Sanchez, Emily; Andersson, Krister P.
作者单位：University of Chicago; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Harvard University; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Decentralization reform has both advantages and risks. Bringing service delivery closer to the people can improve information flows and strengthen accountability, but it may also leave systems vulnerable to elite capture and corruption by municipal government officials. While past research has acknowledged the possibility of corruption under decentralization, relatively little work has connected those risks to features of these reforms or specific local institutional arrangements. To explore t...
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作者：Davis, Jill A.; Hassan, Shahidul
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：While many public organizations have made notable strides to improve the representation of women at all ranks, women remain severely underrepresented in law enforcement organizations. Research shows that a critical barrier to women's integration into law enforcement is the common perception among policemen that women are unsuited for police work. This study draws on Social Dominance Theory (SDT) to illuminate the values and beliefs underlying policemen's negative perceptions. Using multi-wave ...
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作者：Veronesi, Gianluca; Kirkpatrick, Ian; Altanlar, Ali; Sarto, Fabrizia
作者单位：University of Bristol; Aarhus University; University of York - UK; University of Leeds; University of Naples Federico II
摘要：The process of corporatization in public services has led to the emergence of new, more autonomous organizational forms. However, while these reforms have been centrally about the development of management capabilities in public sector organizations, we know surprisingly little about what this process involves. To address this concern, we draw on the literature on administrative intensity (AI) to frame hypotheses about the likely relationship between corporatization and investments in manageme...
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作者：Wong, Jade
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Oxford
摘要：Policy is not only made by street-level bureaucrats at the frontlines. It is also made by their superiors-street-level managers-who set the organizational conditions through which street-level bureaucrats act. Although scholars have documented how street-level bureaucrats cope with the pressures of their work by, for instance, breaking or bending rules, the question of how street-level managers cope with the pressures of their own work has received less attention. Drawing from ethnographic dat...
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作者：Krause, George A.; Park, Jungyeon
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of South Alabama
摘要：Although the Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires that agency EEO directors serve under the direct supervision of agency heads, considerable variation exists on whether agencies adequately implement this requirement into practice by adopting a formal mechanism termed a coordinated reporting organizational arrangement (CROA). A dual exposure-informal resolution strategy is proposed to understand how CROAs improve US federal agencies' organizational efforts at managing wor...
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作者：Ray, Victor; Herd, Pamela; Moynihan, Donald
作者单位：University of Iowa; Georgetown University
摘要：This article develops the concept of racialized burdens as a means of examining the role of race in administrative practice. Racialized burdens are the experience of learning, compliance and psychological costs that serve as inequality reproducing mechanisms. To develop this concept, we examine administrative burdens in the US state from the theoretical perspective of racialized organizations. Using examples from attempts to access citizenship rights-via immigration, voting and the social safe...
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作者：Lenz, Alexa; Eckhard, Steffen
作者单位：University of Konstanz; University of Munich; Zeppelin University
摘要：Flexibility in administrative crisis management is a frequently reported determinant for a successful crisis response. But there is little agreement about how to conceptualize, measure, and explain flexibility. We use a three-dimensional measure of administrative flexibility, capturing employees' decision leeway, staff mobility, and organizational innovation in a crisis response. We then develop and test an explanation of variation in flexibility, focusing on the refugee crisis of 2015/16 in G...
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作者：Luo, Wei; Zheng, Wenjuan; Long, Yan
作者单位：Peking University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Around the world, voluntary programs are an increasingly prevalent regulatory instrument in governing nonprofit organizations. But accounts of mechanisms driving nonprofits' participation in those programs are underdeveloped. This article combines and expands insights from voluntary regulation and institutional work theories to examine the impact of government's informal relational work on nonprofits' regulatory participation. Drawing on interviews and survey data from a random sample of 203 n...
