... learning and innovation. Findings The outcomes suggest that the combination of three key features of benchmarking, namely – “obligation”, “sanctions” and “benchmarking authority” – in conjunction with country-specific administrative context conditions and local actor constellations – influences...

...Jeffrey D. Straussman; Mengzhong Zhang Examines recent reform initiatives in the PRC compared with advanced industralised democracies, searching for common attributes in order to establish, if possible, global patterns in such administrative reform initiatives. Reviewing these issues, admits...

...Keith M. Henderson The study of administration in other countries is often labelled comparative public administration and, since the Second World War, has developed a vast literature covering many world areas and utilizing various methods. Along with its more practical, more prescriptive...

...Richard Paton; Christiane Dodge To meet the management challenges of the 1990s, governments must fundamentally reexamine their approaches to administrative policy. In most governments, administrative policies, such as contracting,procurement, information technology, land and internal government...