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Understanding and Managing Public Organizations
Discover the latest insights in organization theory from a comprehensive and masterful volume Understanding and Managing Public Organizations, 6th Edition provides readers with an authoritative reference for scholars, masters, and doctoral students in public management and public affairs programs in the United States and other nations. The 6th Edition of Understanding and Managing Public Organizations presents the latest research and insights from organization and management theory and their application to public organizations and the people in them. The book expands coverage from previous editions about organizational goals, performance and effectiveness, strategy, decision-making, structur...
Research Handbook on Motivation in Public Administration
This cutting-edge Research Handbook brings together international scholars to provide a comprehensive overview of motivation within and beyond the field of public administration. Discussing the implications of contemporary research for theory and practice, it offers suggestions for the development of future research in the field.
Designing Contracts for Complex Services
We rely on transaction cost economics and the contingency stream of organization theory to answer two related questions. First, when contracting for complex services, do governments design contracts for flexibility? Second, is the contingency perspective relevant to understanding contract design? Examining 130 professional service contracts awarded by state government agencies in the US, we find that task complexity and task unpredictability, two dimensions of task uncertainty increase the probability of flexible governance. This research highlights for managers the important fact that the potential for opportunism and task complexity are different sources of uncertainty that pose different challenges and call for different governance solutions. The study enriches our understanding of transaction costs by probing the conditions under which task uncertainty matters most (and least) and further shows the utility of integrating transaction cost economics with contingency theory to better understand contract governance.
A History of the U.S. Political System [3 volumes]
This reference resource combines unique historical analysis, scholarly essays, and primary source documents to explore the evolution of ideas and institutions that have shaped American government and Americans' political behavior. One of the most active and revealing approaches to research into the American political system is one that focuses on political development, an approach that combines the tools of the political scientist and the historian. A History of the U.S. Political System: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions is the first comprehensive resource that uses this approach to explore the evolution of the American political system from the adoption of the Constitution to the present....
The Impact of the Social Sciences
In the modern globalized world, some estimates suggest that around 40 million people now work in jobs that ‘translate’ or mediate advances in social science research for use in business, government and public agencies, health care systems, and civil society organizations. Many large corporations and organizations across these sectors in the United States are increasingly prioritizing access to social science knowledge. Yet the impacts of university social science continue to be fiercely disputed. This key study demonstrates the essential role of university social science in the ‘human-dominated’ and ‘human-influenced’ systems now central to our civilization. It focuses empiricall...
Resource Dependence, Alternative Supply Sources and the Design of Formal Contracts
Employing a resource-dependence theoretical framework, we analyze a set of recently awarded contracts between the Environmental Protection Agency and various suppliers to determine how joint dependence, supplier dependence, and government dependence affect contract design, and specifically the decision to use a cost-plus (flexible) contract. Findings provide evidence that organizations choose contract designs that will reduce uncertainty related to securing critical resources. However, different dimensions of dependence have different effects: (1) higher levels of joint dependence lead to more flexible governance forms; (2) the lack of alternative suppliers is a more important factor than high levels of financial dependence; and (3) the parties involved in government procurement are likely to perceive government as a unique type of organization, which in turn has implications for contract design choices. We conclude with managerial strategies for restructuring power-dependence relationships to achieve the contract design most likely to yield a surplus in the exchange.
Handbook of American Public Administration
'Currently, public administration as art and science ponders a challenging and uncertain future. Thus, no better time exists to take stock and ponder the practical and theoretical value of its topical coverage to date. Stazyk and Frederickson have assembled an eclectic and impressive group of senior and junior scholars to join them in this intellectual exercise. Collectively, the contributors offer a stiletto-like dissection of where and how the field's energy has been expended, what knowledge it has produced, what its limitations are, and where future energies might best be expended. Kudos to all.' - Robert F. Durant, American University, US This forward-thinking Handbook draws on the exper...
Should Government Go It Alone Or with a Partner
This study compares the effectiveness of two different approaches to the delivery of human services-direct government and a collaboration between government and a nonprofit provider using a point of service contract. A work release program in Illinois provides the study context. We apply multiple econometric techniques for analysis to address nonrandom assignment of program participants, including: regression with fixed-effects; and propensity score matching. Labor market outcomes for the collaborative approach were significantly better than outcomes associated with direct government. Our discussion and results add to several literatures: policy tools; policy implementation; collaborations; point of service contracts; work release programs; and sector differences.
American Shockwave
Challenging conventional wisdom, this work argues that the US federal government, not the private sector, created the dynamic New Economy. It aims to help readers who want to discover the causal factors that created the conditions for the unprecedented economic boom of the 1990s.
Public Human Resource Management
Public Human Resource Management: Problems and Prospects by Richard C. Kearney and Jerrell D. Coggburn brings together exemplary contributors who provide concise essays on major contemporary public human resources management issues. Organized into four parts – setting, techniques, issues and prospects – and covering the major process, function and policy issues in the field, the text offers valuable wisdom to students and practitioners alike. The new edition boasts sixteen new and eleven updated chapters authored by the leading figures in the field as well as by up-and-coming new scholars.
