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作者：Alonso, Jose Manuel; Andrews, Rhys; Hodgkinson, Ian R.
作者单位：Universidad de Cantabria; Cardiff University; Loughborough University
摘要：Theories of contracting out offer contrasting perspectives on the noneconomic determinants of local government contracting. Some suggest that ideological motives predominate, with contracting decisions reflecting the ideology of ruling parties. Others emphasize political motives, with governments responding to local preferences. In this article, we draw on ideas about isomorphic pressures within organizational fields to examine whether institutional influences might also affect contracting beh...
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作者：Pandey, Sanjay K.; Davis, Randall S.; Pandey, Sheela; Peng, Shuyang
作者单位：George Washington University; Southern Illinois University System; Southern Illinois University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of New Mexico
摘要：This article asks whether and how transformational leadership in the public sector can influence the use of normative public values in organizational decisions. We focus on transformational leadership's influence on three core normative public values (representation, equity, and individual rights). The extent to which public organizations and their employees emphasize normative public values in their decision-making can signal important messages to external stakeholders about respect for and r...
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作者：Meyer-Sahling, Jan-Hinrik; Mikkelsen, Kim Sass
作者单位：University of Nottingham; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：Research on bureaucracy and corruption tends to concentrate on cross-national research taking countries as the unit of analysis. Yet national-level measures neglect large differences within countries. This article therefore takes the perspective of individual bureaucrats. It studies how public officials' experience with bureaucratic institutions affects corruption within their sphere of work. Based on a survey of central government officials in five post-communist states, the article examines ...
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作者：Geys, Benny; Sorensen, Rune J.
作者单位：BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：It is often said that necessity is the mother of invention'. In this article, we assess whether this also applies to the design of public authorities' service provision. In particular, we evaluate whether revenue scarcity - as an indicator of fiscal stress - induces government outsourcing. In contrast to previous studies, we exploit arguably exogenous variation in local government revenue across time and space to derive stronger inferences on the role of revenue scarcity for outsourcing. Using...
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作者：Krotel, Sarah M. L.; Villadsen, Anders R.
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Public sector reforms are increasingly blurring the boundaries between the public and private sectors, making way for hybrid organizations existing between the two sectors. While research has begun to explore organizational hybridity and how it affects employee identities and outcomes, knowledge about employee behaviour in hybrid organizations is scarce. Public-private hybrid organizations face the challenge of balancing some degree of privateness with traditional public sector practices and v...
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作者：Ventriss, Curtis
作者单位：University of Vermont
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作者：De Vries, Hanna; Bekkers, Victor; Tummers, Lars
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：This article brings together empirical academic research on public sector innovation. Via a systematic literature review, we investigate 181 articles and books on public sector innovation, published between 1990 and 2014. These studies are analysed based on the following themes: (1) the definitions of innovation, (2) innovation types, (3) goals of innovation, (4) antecedents of innovation and (5) outcomes of innovation. Based upon this analysis, we develop an empirically based framework of pot...
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作者：Connolly, Sara; Kassim, Hussein
作者单位：University of East Anglia; University of East Anglia
摘要：Do international organizations affect the views of the people who work for them? Although increasingly sophisticated methods have been used to address this question, disagreement persists about whether the beliefs of staff are formed before they join, after they enter the institution, or are shaped by instrumental calculation. Drawing on an original dataset based on the first fully representative survey of the European Commission's workforce, this article breaks new ground by putting different...
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作者：Gateva, Eli
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
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作者：Kim, Yunji; Warner, Mildred E.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Cornell University
摘要：Since the Great Recession, some have argued that local governments have become austerity machines' that cut and privatize services and undermine unions. We conducted a national survey of US municipalities in 2012 to examine how service provision level and delivery methods are related to local stress and capacity, controlling for community need and place characteristics. We find that local governments are balancing the pressures of stress with community needs. They use alternative revenue sourc...
