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作者：Battaglio, R. Paul, Jr.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
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作者：Pitts, David W.; Jarry, Elizabeth M.
作者单位：American University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Research on links between ethnic diversity and performance frequently illustrates that organizational diversity leads to process-oriented problems and negative work-related outcomes. This can cause problems for public managers who are tasked to increase workforce diversity for normative purposes but are nonetheless required to focus on performance goals. In this study, we test the proposition that managers can improve work-related outcomes in diverse organizations by focusing on stability and ...
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作者：Sanderson, Joe
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：This article looks beyond the rhetoric in recent UK defence procurement policy to discuss factors that might impact on the practical implementation of buyer-supplier partnering. Various explanations of the difficulty of creating a partnership are identified. The principal explanation explored is that the likelihood of successful partnering is a function of the power relation between a buyer and a supplier. It is argued that partnering is most likely to occur under circumstances of interdepende...
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作者：Orr, Kevin; Vince, Russ
作者单位：University of Hull; University of Bath
摘要：This article explores local government traditions in the UK. This task is an important one for scholars who wish to understand and appreciate the rich cultural complexity of local government organizations. In local government settings, traditions can be used in the study and evaluation of political and managerial practices. They provide lenses through which the routines, structures and processes of management and politics may be viewed. The delineation of multiple traditions heightens the sens...
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作者：Porter, Sam; Shortall, Sally
作者单位：Queens University Belfast; Queens University Belfast
摘要：This paper examines the epistemological bases for the inclusion of stakeholders in policy research. While it concedes that the input of stakeholders provides essential expert and experiential knowledge for the understanding of complex policies and programmes, it contends that the approach which assumes that all interpretations of policy including those of stakeholders should be afforded equal validity, which we term relativist perspectivism, undermines the possibility of robust research by all...
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作者：Taylor, Jeannette
作者单位：University of Western Australia
摘要：Many public agencies now face dual pressures to meet external accountability demands on one hand, and improve their internal performance on the other. This begs the question whether the demands that are made on public agencies to externally report on their performance have a limited or wide ranging impact on the utilization of performance indicators (PIs) for internal improvements. This article addresses this question via a small group of public agencies and public accountability authorities i...
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作者：Hodgett, Susan; Deneulin, Severine
作者单位：Ulster University; Ulster University; University of Bath
摘要：The paper discusses the extent to which narratives enrich human development policy assessment beyond statistical data. Our arguments are divided in three parts. First, after introducing the capability approach, we examine the theoretical rationale for assessing policy beyond statistics and the relevance of narratives in policy assessment. Second, we review one major exception in policy assessment, the European Union (EU) Community Infrastructure measure. The paper theorizes interpretive approa...
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作者：Ferraz Esteves De Araujo, Joaquim Filipe; Angelino Branco, Jose Francisco
作者单位：Universidade do Minho
摘要：The influence of the New Public Management (NPM) movement in Portuguese administrative reform has been one of the country's noticeable trends in recent decades (Araujo 2001, 2002 Rocha 2001). Many governments have aimed to introduce a new managerial rationality in public services. The literature about administrative reform shows that institutional bureaucracies resist change, particularly when it challenges prevailing practices and procedures (Bjur and Caiden 1978; Olsen 1991). Thus, the influ...
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作者：Poulsen, Birgitte
作者单位：Roskilde University
摘要：This article offers a study of the changing role of the state in Denmark under the condition of the overall transformation from government to governance with particular emphasis on the corresponding transition from process accountability to performance accountability. It is argued that although new modes of governance have been introduced, and new interpretations of accountability have been proliferated, neither conventional modes of governance nor older interpretations of accountability disap...
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作者：Radaelli, Claudio M.; Meuwese, Anne C. M.
作者单位：University of Exeter; University of Exeter; University of Antwerp
摘要：Can the European regulatory state be managed? The European Union (EU) and its member states have looked at better regulation as a possible answer to this difficult question. This emerging public policy presents challenges to scholars of public management and administrative reforms, but also opportunities. In this conceptual article, we start from the problems created by the value-laden discourse used by policy-makers in this area, and provide a definition and a framework that are suitable for ...
