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作者：Erakovic, L; Powell, M
作者单位：University of Auckland; Griffith University
摘要：This article discusses and illustrates organizational changes as initiated by ownership transition. It develops and elaborates three different pathways that organizations might follow through the process of transformation from government departments to state-owned enterprises, and then to privately-owned companies: the incremental, radical and reductive pathways. The research reported here is based on 11 case studies of New Zealand privatized companies. The pathway approach develops and extend...
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作者：Bevan, Gwyn; Hood, Christopher
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：In the 2000s, governments in the UK, particularly in England, developed a system of governance of public services that combined targets with an element of terror. This has obvious parallels with the Soviet regime, which was initially successful but then collapsed. Assumptions underlying governance by targets represent synecdoche (taking a part to stand for a whole); and that problems of measurement and gaming do not matter. We examine the robustness of the regime of targets and terror to these...
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作者：Chapman, Richard A.
作者单位：Durham University
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作者：Currie, G; Suhomlinova, O
作者单位：University of Nottingham; University of Leicester
摘要：Academics, policy-makers and practitioners are increasingly interested in the contribution that effective management of knowledge across organizational and professional boundaries can make to improved public services. Examining knowledge sharing within the context of the UK NHS, we ground our investigation in neo-institutional organizational sociology. We highlight the influence of regulatory, normative and cultural-cognitive aspects of institutions operating in the health care field on the bo...
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作者：Milakovich, Michael E.
作者单位：University of Miami
摘要：Successful performance management strategies are intrinsically linked to the political environment in which public policy-making occurs. Since the mid-1990s, many governments have re-examined how to simultaneously reduce costs, increase performance and achieve results. Public agencies are experimenting with performance measurement and management systems designed to meet public policy goals and respond to citizen demands. Various reform models have been proposed and public administrators now ex...
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作者：Dibben, Pauline
作者单位：University of Sheffield
摘要：This article examines the relationship between social exclusion and bus provision in England in a marketized environment, and outlines the complexities of involving the socially excluded in local transport decision making. An analysis of five case studies, including histories of where requests were made for changes to bus provision, reveals the challenges for voice and responsiveness within a deregulated environment. Local government has limited ability to respond effectively to the socially e...
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作者：Ongaro, Edoardo
作者单位：Bocconi University
摘要：The devolution of authority from central to regional and local governments is a widespread trend in many countries. Differences in the outcomes of devolution reforms are often significant, between countries as well as within a country. The work reported in this paper assumes that the dynamics of the implementation process and the way it is affected by the national tradition of governance and by the features of the politico-administrative system is important in explaining such differentiation. ...
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作者：Tavares, Luis V.; Alves, Andre A.
作者单位：Universidade de Lisboa; Universidade de Lisboa; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：u This paper addresses the changing role of the Portuguese state, the present priority assigned to the process of reform and the new challenges to be overcome by public administration. Such processes are demanding a new agenda for education and research in public administration sciences, shifting from the public law paradigm to an interdisciplinary problem-solving approach and giving special attention to 10 key areas of study, which we describe in the final section of the paper. It should be n...
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作者：Walker, Richard M.
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; Cardiff University
摘要：This paper presents the first empirical test of innovation type and diffusion in local government. Five types of innovations - one product, three process and one ancillary - were tested in a multivariate model that included environmental, organizational and diffusion variables. The research was conducted on 120 upper tier English local authorities using a multiple informant survey instrument. Results indicate that adoption of innovation is both complex and contingent - different factors drive ...
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作者：Knox, Colin; Carmichael, Paul
作者单位：Ulster University
摘要：The Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement of 1998 resulted in the return of devolved government to Northern Ireland and, with it, a decision by the Executive and Assembly to conduct a radical review of public administration. The review is now reaching its final stages and this paper considers the likely outcomes. It both argues that the parameters of the review will limit its impact and describes the reform proposals as either structural changes or administrative rationalization, both devoid of a wi...
