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作者:Yang, Kaifeng
作者单位:Renmin University of China; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要:Public value creation has become a critical challenge, but existing approaches have limitations and it is unclear how they can be integrated. This article addresses this issue by analyzing four best-practice cases in which public value was created through the integration of community indicators and government performance management. It identifies an iterative process of participation, legitimation, and implementation, with institutional innovations across boundaries between civil society, poli...
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作者:Cox, Geoffrey M.
作者单位:Alliant International University
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作者:Hallsworth, Michael
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作者:Mohr, Zachary T.
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要:In the public administration literature, research on performance measurement has recognized the important place of cost accounting in relation to performance. Extant research, such as the North Carolina Benchmarking Program, supports the proposition that performance and cost accounting naturally complement each other to increase trust in performance information and increase organizational learning. Other statements about cost accounting suggest that performance measurement and cost accounting ...
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作者:Teodoro, Manuel P.; Switzer, David
作者单位:Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要:This article advances a resource endowment theory of human capital and performance in government organizations. Building on research on human capital and firm location in business economics and task complexity in public management, the authors argue that an agency's ability to implement policy is determined both by its scale and by the human capital of the population from which it draws its employees. The authors cast labor as a factor of production in public agencies and argue that access to ...
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作者:Martin, Steve
作者单位:Cardiff University
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作者:Newman, Joshua; Cherney, Adrian; Head, Brian W.
作者单位:Flinders University South Australia; University of Queensland; University of Queensland
摘要:Academics and policy makers in many Western countries are perceived as occupying separate communities, with distinct languages, values, and reward systems. However, data from a survey of more than 2,000 policy officials and 126 in-depth interviews with public servants in Australia suggest that the two communities conceptualization may be misleading and flawed. More realistically, there is a range of interaction between policy and academia, with some individuals valuing and using academic resea...
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作者:Thompson, Tommy
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作者:Tsang, John C.
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作者:Pisano, Mark
作者单位:University of Southern California