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作者：Boin, Arjen; Ansell, Chris; Lodge, Martin; Parrado, Salvador; Wegrich, Kai; Xue, Lan
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作者：Taylor, Jeannette
作者单位：University of Western Australia
摘要：Is the state of a performance measurement system the most important element for promoting the utilization of performance indicators (PIs) in the public sector? Or are there other more influential factors, such as organizational culture, or even individual perceptions on the merit of performance measurement for their agency? Through a survey on a small group of managers specializing in performance measurement in 21 Australian state government agencies, this research examines the relative influe...
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作者：van der Wal, Zeger
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical contextual picture of what is truly valued most in different public and private sector organizations. Through a series of qualitative in-depth interviews (n = 38), that were a follow-up to an earlier survey study among public and private sector managers (n = 382), a number of crucial organizational values were presented to and discussed with a selection of top managers from a variety of Dutch public and private sector organizations. The decision...
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作者：Capano, Giliberto
作者单位：University of Bologna
摘要：Governance in higher education has undergone certain substantial shifts in recent decades. In order to analyse this process from an empirical point of view, a specific understanding of governance, based on the role of the public power in question (state, government or another such power, depending on the context) has been assumed. Changes in systemic governance (and consequently also at the institutional level) are a product in particular of governments' responses to changes in their respectiv...
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作者：Christensen, Jorgen Gronnegaard
作者单位：Aarhus University
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作者：Marinetto, Michael
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：This paper explores the issue of joined-up governance by considering child protection failures, firstly, the case of Victoria Climbie who was killed by her guardians despite being known as an at risk child by various public agencies. The seeming inability of the child protection system to prevent Victoria Climbie's death resulted in a public inquiry under the chairmanship of Lord Laming. The Laming report of 2003 looked, in part, to the lack of joined-up working between agencies to explain thi...
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作者：Oborn, Eivor; Barrett, Michael; Exworthy, Mark
作者单位：University of London; University of Cambridge
摘要：The development of health policy is recognized as complex; however, there has been little development of the role of agency in this process. Kingdon developed the concept of policy entrepreneur (PE) within his 'windows' model. He argued inter-related 'policy streams' must coincide for important issues to become addressed. The conjoining of these streams may be aided by a policy entrepreneur. We contribute by clarifying the role of the policy entrepreneur and highlighting the translational proc...
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作者：Williams, Iestyn; Shearer, Heather
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：Despite the increasing popularity of the concept of public value within both academic and practice settings, there has to date been no formal review of the literature on its provenance, empirical basis, and application. This paper seeks to fill this gap. It provides a critical introduction to public value and its conceptual development before presenting the main elements of the published literature. Following this, a series of key areas of disagreement are discussed and implications for future...
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作者：Entwistle, Tom
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：New institutional theory suggests that radical organizational change is guided by a logic of appropriateness in which organizations change their structures and processes in response to changes in prevailing notions of how best to organize. Contingency theories suggests, by contrast, that organizations pursue a logic of consequentiality, trying to maximize performance by adjusting structures and processes in response to relatively tangible things like the demand for services and the state of te...
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作者：Ferlie, Ewan; Fitzgerald, Louise; McGivern, Gerry; Dopson, Sue; Bennett, Chris
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; University of London; King's College London; University of Manchester; University of Oxford
摘要：The last two decades have seen a shift in public services organizations from hierarchies to networks. Network forms are seen as particularly suited to handling 'wicked problems'. We make an assessment of the nature and impact of this shift. Using recent evidence from the United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS), we explore the nature and functioning of eight different public policy networks. We are also interested in whether there has been a radical transition - or not - from hierarch...
