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作者：Mischen, Pamela A.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
摘要：The article presents a process by which qualitative case study implementation research may be cumulated. Using the concept of the hermeneutic spiral, an iterative process is employed in order to increase understanding of welfare implementation since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. This process involves a review of recent welfare reform literature, the use of the knowing organization model (KOM) as a research frame for understanding the existing literature a...
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作者：Willem, Annick; Buelens, Marc
作者单位：Ghent University; KU Leuven; Vlerick Business School
摘要：Public sector organizations are mainly knowledge-intensive organizations, and to exploit their knowledge, effective knowledge sharing among the different departments is required. We focus on specific characteristics of public sector organizations that increase or limit interdepartmental knowledge sharing. Three types of organization-specific coordination mechanisms directly influence knowledge sharing between departments. Organizations are also characterized by members' social identification a...
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作者：Amirkhanyan, Anna A.
作者单位：American University
摘要：This study investigates the determinants of local governments' decisions to privatize public nursing homes. According to the Online Survey, Certification, and Reporting (OSCAR) 2004 data, more than 100 counties in the United States have recently divested their nursing facilities through change of ownership to nonprofit or for profit or through termination. The theoretical model used in this study proposes four broad categories of antecedents of the privatization decision: market failure, gover...
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作者：Bilodeau, Nancy; Laurin, Claude; Vining, Aidan
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Simon Fraser University
摘要：The new public management includes a portfolio of prescriptions that involve reconfiguring the boundaries of government agencies. One form of reconfiguration is corporatization. Corporatization creates separate agencies that have a contractlike relationship with a ministry or oversight agencies. Corporatization usually comprises a portfolio of changes that attempt to make agencies more businesslike. Although corporatization is now popular with governments around the world, there is little empi...
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作者：Welch, Eric W.; Pandey, Sanjay K.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of Kansas
摘要：This article examines the interaction between bureaucratic red tape and intranet usage in state human service agencies. We propose a sociotechnical model for the relationship between intranet usage and bureaucratic red tape that takes into account the complexities of causal linkages including bidirectional causal relationships and a range of internal and external influences. This model is tested with data from the National Administrative Studies Project, Phase II. While we are not able to corr...
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作者：McCaffrey, David P.; Smith, Amy E.; Martinez-Moyano, Ignacio J.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY; United States Department of Energy (DOE); Argonne National Laboratory
摘要：Public and private organizations deal closely with each other on regulatory issues. Newer forms of regulation rely on shared enforcement and supervisory responsibilities, regulatory negotiation, and other methods that try to get beyond remote public commands while maintaining effective public involvement. This article examines how regulators and firms deal with each other, the interdependence that forms between them in the course of their work, and the benefits and liabilities of the strong ti...
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作者：Miller, Gary J.; Whitford, Andrew B.
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Pure incentive schemes rely on the agent's self-interest, rather than more coercive control, to motivate subordinates. Yet most organizations, and in particular public agencies, rely very little on pure incentive contracts and instead use coercive mechanisms of monitoring and sanctioning that many theorists find objectionable. We use principal-agency theory to investigate the problem. Principal-agency theory has tacitly assumed throughout that it is in the principal's interests to find a set o...
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作者：James, Oliver; John, Peter
作者单位：University of Exeter; University of Manchester
摘要：Publishing performance information about local public services, an increasing trend in many Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, matters politically because it has an effect on incumbent local governments' electoral support. Voters are able to use performance information to punish or reward incumbents in the elections that follow their publication, which may fill a gap in the chain of accountability between voters and governments. We model the introduction of publi...
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作者：Wilkins, Vicky M.
摘要：Using the theoretical framework posited by Keiser et al. (2002), researchers have found active representation for gender in several public organizations (Keiser et al. 2002; Nicholson-Crotty and Meier 2002; Wilkins and Keiser 2006). This article uses individual-level data to explore the causal story behind previous aggregate level findings that suggest that female child support enforcement supervisors provide active representation to female clients, who directly benefit from increased child su...
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作者：Boyne, George A.; Chen, Alex A.
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：Theories of rational planning suggest that organizational performance improves if targets for future achievements are set. We test this proposition using panel data for 147 English local education authorities between 1998 and 2003. The dependent variables in the analysis are exam results for school pupils. We find that, controlling for other variables, the extent of performance improvement is influenced positively by the presence of a target. Thus, the results are consistent with the view that...
