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The Knowledge-creating Company
The authors contend that Japanese firms are successful because they are innovative--and not merely masters of imitation as some think--and because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Illustrations.
Policy Analysts in the Bureaucracy
Who advises our policy makers in Washington? What brings these advisors to the federal bureaucracy and keeps them there? And how do their clients and the bureaucratic context influence the choices they make in selecting, defining, and working on problems of public policy? In the late 1960s, professional policy advisors—called policy analysts—began to emerge in the Washington bureaucracy. Their job: to provide information and advice about the consequences of choosing different policies. Arnold J. Meltsner examines the various roles they asumed and the ways in which their priorities and methods were affected by the people they advised and the bureaucratic environment. Drawing on interviews...
The New Bureaucracy
Based on interviews with inspectors, quality assurance managers and auditors, as well as professionals struggling with bureaucracy, this book offers a critical, but at the same time a human and sympathetic, account of organisational change.
The Science of Bureaucracy
How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades. The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and programs. Over four decades, the EPA has been a risk bureaucracy, formalizing many of the methods of the scientific governance of risk, from quantitative risk assessment to risk ranking. Demortain traces the creation of these methods for the governance of risk, the controversies to which they responded, and the controversies that they aroused in turn. He discusses the professional networks in which the...
Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy
Contemporary scholarship and classic essays focus on the continuing crises in bureaucratic organizations and managerial authority. Rethinking and innovation in private, public, and nonprofit organizations emerge from case studies on schools, multicultural and feminist organizations, private corporations, environmental planning and regulation, alternative services, and attempts to "reinvent government." Author note: Frank Fischer teaches Political Science and Public Administration at Rutgers University and has published several books, including Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise and The Argumentative Turn in PolicyAnalysis and Planning.Carmen Sirianni teaches Sociology at Brandeis University and is co-editor of the Labor and Social Change series at Temple University Press. His books include Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform (Temple) and Working Time in Transition (Temple).
Busting Bureaucracy
"Bureaucracy. The word conjures up the worst organizational nightmares. Your customers experience it as red tape, inflexible policies, and being hard to do business with. Employees experience it when departments don't cooperate, when internal politics get in the way of the mission, and when decisions seem to take forever." "Bureaucracy is the "stuff" that gets in the way of doing the job, takes the fun out of work, and drives customers crazy... or away." "Busting Bureaucracy explains what bureaucracy is and exposes its root cause. More importantly, Busting Bureaucracy shows how to get rid of it. The book offers solutions as simple as passing this book around and talking about it. The book of...
Breaking Through Bureaucracy
On governmental bureaucracy
Knowledge in Organisations
First Published in 1997. The second in the readers' series, Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy, Knowledge In Organisations gives an overview of how knowledge is valued and used in organisations. It gives readers excellent grounding in how best to understand the highest valued asset they have in their organisations.
The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy
The call to "reinvent government"—to reform the government bureaucracy of the United States—resonates as loudly from elected officials as from the public. Examining the political and economic forces that have shaped the American civil service system from its beginnings in 1883 through today, the authors of this volume explain why, despite attempts at an overhaul, significant change in the bureaucracy remains a formidable challenge.
