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作者:Olsen, JP
作者单位:University of Oslo
摘要:This article questions the fashionable ideas that bureaucratic organization is an obsolescent, undesirable, and non-viable form of administration and that there is an inevitable and irreversible paradigmatic shift towards market- or network-organization. In contrast, the paper argues that contemporary democracies are involved in another round in a perennial debate and ideological struggle over what are desirable forms of administration and government: that is, a struggle over institutional ide...
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作者:Dunleavy, Patrick; Margetts, Helen; Bastow, Simon; Tinkler, Jane
作者单位:University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Oxford
摘要:The new public management (NPM) wave in public sector organizational change was founded on themes of disaggregation, competition, and incentivization. Although its effects are still working through in countries new to NPM, this wave has now largely stalled or been reversed in some key leading-edge countries. This ebbing chiefly reflects the cumulation of adverse indirect effects on citizens' capacities for solving social problems because NPM has radically increased institutional and policy com...
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作者:Borins, S
作者单位:University of Toronto
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作者:Forbes, M; Lynn, LE Jr
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要:Despite the growing importance of public management reform around the world, relatively little scholarship evaluates the contributions of public management to government performance, that is, to the character and consequences of service provision by public agencies. One study (Hill and Lynn 2005) evaluated over eight hundred American empirical studies that address issues of public management effectiveness in a wide variety of fields, subfields, and disciplines. In this article we employ the an...
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作者:Lieberman, RC
作者单位:Columbia University
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作者:Chun, YH; Rainey, HG
作者单位:Yonsei University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要:In spite of numerous observations that government organizations have high levels of organizational goal ambiguity that exert major influences on their other characteristics, few researchers have measured goal ambiguity and tested these frequent assertions. In previous research, we developed measures of four dimensions of goal ambiguity: mission comprehension ambiguity, directive goal ambiguity, evaluative goal ambiguity, and priority goal ambiguity. Confirming hypotheses developed from the lit...
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作者:Hill, GC
作者单位:Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要:Boyne and Dahya (2002) posit that the means, motives, and opportunities available to top managers will affect their ability to impact organizational performance. In this analysis, I test the theory posited by Boyne and Dahya and expand the model by exploring whether the performance effects of executive succession differ between an internal promotion and an external hire. Using Texas school superintendents as the managers in question, I use pooled, time-series data to test both the immediate an...
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作者:Brudney, JL; Fernandez, S; Ryu, JE; Wright, DS
作者单位:University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; University System of Ohio; Ohio University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要:Although a vast literature explores government contracting out for the delivery of publicly financed services, comparatively little of this analysis, whether descriptive or explanatory, focuses on the American states. Accordingly, the present research has two primary goals. It first examines the extent of contracting out by state agencies and the perceived effects of this activity on the quality and costs of service delivery. The second aim is to develop a model of contracting out by state age...
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作者:Brewer, GA
作者单位:University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要:This study examines the role of frontline supervisors in the twenty-two largest federal agencies and explores their contributions to organizational performance and effectiveness. Specifically, this study develops a measure of federal agency performance and tests a hybrid model that predicts it. Several research questions on the nature and importance of supervisory management are tested within this framework. Data for the study come from the 2000 Merit Principles Survey, U.S. Merit Systems Prot...
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作者:Boyne, GA; Meier, KJ; O'Toole, LJ Jr; Walker, RM
作者单位:Cardiff University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Hong Kong