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作者：Hall, Mark; Kutsch, Elmar; Partington, David
作者单位：University of Bristol; Cranfield University
摘要：Project-based initiatives form a major part of government investment and, so, learning from past projects should be a major concern for public sector organizations. Previous research has explored systems and processes for project-based learning but little research has examined the social and cultural factors that enable this learning to be applied with useful effect. This paper reports on two successive major UK government projects. The introduction of independent learning accounts (ILAs) and ...
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作者：Tepe, Markus
作者单位：Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg
摘要：This study explores a refined model of public/private sector cleavage voting. Assuming that market and work experiences are crucial for people to develop common political views, it investigates three contexts that shape government employees' willingness to vote as a single constituency: the branch of public sector production, the occupational status, and the type of service economy. Estimation results obtained from regressions on European Social Survey (ESS) data indicate that government emplo...
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作者：Andrews, Rhys; Boyne, George
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：Organization theory suggests that structural change has disruptive effects on managerial behaviour and organizational outcomes, and that these effects are likely to emerge in the period between the announcement and the commencement of the new structure. We evaluate the validity of this argument by analysing the performance of English county councils in the transition period before the voluntary restructuring of a sub-set of these organizations. Disruptive effects are tested while controlling f...
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作者：Rothstein, Henry; Downer, John
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; Stanford University
摘要：Risk-based policymaking is a form of reflexive policymaking that uses risk analysis to address both the primary objects of policy interventions and their secondary adverse consequences. As such, it has become central to debates about efficiency, control and accountability in UK government. To better understand the factors shaping its emergence, this article studies the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' (Defra) adoption of risk-based policymaking. In-depth interviews with D...
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作者：Andrews, Rhys; Boyne, George A.; Meier, Kenneth J.; O'Toole, Laurence J., Jr.; Walker, Richard M.
作者单位：Cardiff University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：We report the results of a study examining the effects of vertical strategic alignment (that is, the degree to which strategic stances are consistent across different organizational levels) on public service performance. Longitudinal multivariate analysis is undertaken on a panel of public organizations over four years. We find that alignment on a prospecting strategy leads to better performance, but that no such effect is observed for a defending strategy. We also find that high levels of pro...
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作者：Vikolainen, Vera; Bressers, Hans; Lulofs, Kris
作者单位：University of Twente
摘要：The implementation of the European Union Bird and Habitat Directives in the field of water infrastructure has caused severe project disruptions in the past. The prevalence of negative experience has triggered a new approach, which aims to integrate site-specific characteristics of ecosystem and project objectives during the development of the initial project design. This is termed integrated nature design. In this paper we advance the hypothesis that applying integrated nature design in Natura...
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作者：Currie, Graeme
作者单位：University of Warwick
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作者：Sharma, Chanchal Kumar
作者单位：Kurukshetra University
摘要：How do we know whether a country suffers from vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI)? What should be done about it? Academic appreciation of these issues in general, and the nature of political behaviour in particular, both have major implications for the way federations are fiscally structured. While the latter clearly is a problem of political negotiations, our focus is on the former, that is, conceptual clarity, which precedes meaningful negotiations. Thus, the paper aims to clarify the multiple u...
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作者：Wirtz, Bernd W.; Mory, Linda; Ullrich, Sebastian
摘要：Given the increasing importance of eHealth as an integral part of eGovernment, this contribution concentrates on the issue of acceptance regarding the introduction of the German electronic health card (eHC). A brief introduction highlights the relevance of the subject and the differing acceptance rates of patients and service providers, i.e. physicians. Based on both the technology acceptance model and the relevant literature, important factors influencing the attitude towards and the potentia...
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作者：Wallace, Mike; Hoyle, Eric
作者单位：Cardiff University; University of Bristol
摘要：The potential of an ironic perspective for understanding public service change is portrayed through a re-analysis of data on a merger between two English primary sector schools, an extreme change involving organizational termination alongside phoenix-like emergence. The ironic perspective focuses on synchronic dissonance and diachronic divergence in meaning underlying verbal and situational forms of irony respectively, endemic sources of organizational ambiguity, its exacerbation by change whi...
