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作者：Bax, Charlotte; de Jong, Martin; Koppenjan, Joop
作者单位：Delft University of Technology
摘要：In the early 1990s, in order to improve road safety in The Netherlands, the Institute for Road Safety Research (SWOV) developed an evidence-based 'Sustainable Safety' concept. Based on this concept, Dutch road safety policy, was seen as successful and as a best practice in Europe. In The Netherlands, the policy context has now changed from a sectoral policy setting towards a fragmented network in which safety is a facet of other transport-related policies. In this contribution, it is argued th...
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作者：Fernandez, Sergio; Wise, Lois R.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Organizational change sometimes occurs as organizations 'ingest' innovations from without. This process represents a vital form of organizational learning and adaptation to the external environment. This study seeks to understand the factors that predict the adoption of Foreign Professional Specialty Occupation Visas, or H-1B visas, by Texas public school districts. The use of H-1B visas to hire foreign skilled workers is a staffing innovation that is growing in use among public and private or...
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作者：Marsh, David; McConnell, Allan
作者单位：Australian National University; University of Sydney; University of Strathclyde
摘要：Claims that a particular policy has been a 'success' are commonplace in political life. However, a few of these claims are justified in any systematic way. This article seeks to remedy this omission by offering a heuristic which practitioners and academics can utilize to approach the question of whether a policy is, or was, successful. It builds initially on two sets of literature: Boyne's work on public sector improvement; and the work of Bovens et al. on success, failure and policy evaluatio...
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作者：Meyer, Renate E.; Hammerschmid, Gerhard
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; Hertie School
摘要：This article reports a comparative study of human resource management (HRM) practices in Europe. We focus on the extent to which decision-making authority is decentralized, that is, passed down to management, and individualized in the sense of being in the discretion of a single decision maker. Using these two dimensions, this paper gives a picture of the distinct way HR decision-making practices are organized in Europe: although decentralization has been a common goal of modernization initiat...
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作者：Brewer, Gene A.; Walker, Richard M.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong
摘要：In the public administration literature, ways in which perceptions of red tape vary between different parts of the public sector remains relatively unexplored. In this article we define organizational red tape as a subject-dependent concept; that is, we expect to see variations in the level and type of red tape between different internal stakeholder groups. We then explain variations with two organizational-based variables, professionalization and marketization. The empirical analysis is under...
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作者：Corley, Elizabeth A.; Sabharwal, Meghna
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Previous studies have confirmed the interdisciplinary nature of the field of public administration (Mosher 1956; Ventriss 1991; Forrester 1996; Rodgers and Rodgers 2000; Schroeder et al. 2004) and encouraged the exploration of one important indicator of interdisciplinarity: research collaboration. One way that collaboration patterns are explored is through the study of co-authorship among faculty members (Smart and Bayer 1986; Forrester 1996; Katz and Martin 1997). In the field of public admin...
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作者：Lonsdale, Chris; Kirkpatrick, Ian; Hoque, Kim; de Ruyter, Alex
作者单位：University of Birmingham; University of Leeds; University of Nottingham; University of West Scotland
摘要：The worldwide expansion in the use of private firms to deliver public services and infrastructure has promoted a substantial literature on public sector contract and relationship management. This literature is currently dominated by the notion that supplier relationships should be based upon trust. Less prominent are more sceptical approaches that emphasize the need to assiduously manage potential supplier exploitation and opportunism. This article addresses this imbalance by focusing upon the...
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作者：Nohrstedt, Daniel; Hansen, Dan
摘要：This article analyses counterterrorism policy convergence among the 27 European Union (EU) member states between 2000 and 2006. While considerable academic interest has been devoted to the common European Union policy in response to terrorism after September 11, few studies have compared counterterrorism policy-making at the member state level. This gap raises the question whether the institutional framework of European counterterrorism policy-making has stimulated convergence of national poli...
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作者：Taylor, Jeannette
作者单位：University of Western Australia
摘要：Using the 2005 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes dataset, this study compares the public service motivation (PSM), and civic attitudes and actions of public, nonprofit and private sector employees in Australia. Sectoral similarities and differences were noted. This research also analyses the relationships between PSM and civic attitudes and behaviours of these groups of employees. High PSM employees were found to have higher confidence in key national public and private institutions, place...
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作者：Vogel, Rick
作者单位：University of Hamburg
摘要：The relationship between theory and practice is essential to 'applied sciences' such as public management. However, the current debate on this topic lacks empirical substantiation. Here I develop a methodology for the indication of how the theory-practice gap is actually addressed in a given subfield of management enquiry. I distinguish three archetypal strategies of relating theory to practice and develop several bibliometric indicators for them. Subsequently, I apply this methodology in a ca...
