... of appointments and for the advancement of theory in this field and should receive improvements and future empirical evaluations. Public appointments represent an important tool to move bureaucracy toward government priority (Wood and Waterman, 1991), bringing the State closer to society (Flinders and Matthews...

...Roberta Troisi; Gaetano Alfano Purpose This study investigates the presence of a productivity–quality trade-off in judicial decisions from an organisational standpoint, focusing on the courts as bureaucracies. Applied to the Italian context and focusing on criminal courts, the main question...

...Karl Löfgren; Ben Darrah-Morgan; Patrik Hall Purpose The purpose of this article is to ascertain empirically to what extent we can quantify an occupational shift, where a new type of bureaucracy of organisational professionals is on the rise in tertiary educational institutions in New Zealand...

...Linzi J. Kemp; Megan Mathias; Maryam Raji Purpose The purpose of this paper is to apply the lens of representative bureaucracy (RB) to women’s representation at management level in governments and government-owned companies in Arab Gulf states (AGS), and to consider the implications for government...

... 21 02 2017 21 05 2017 02 07 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information technology Citizens Accountability E-government Bureaucracy Restructuring of public sector work engenders changes in its...

... Bureaucracy Small business programs There is ample evidence that impediments to innovation are both widespread and significant. Borins's pioneering study reported a range of obstacles, both internal and external, that had to be overcome before new ideas could become a reality. These included...

... than seeking to provide action‐oriented prescriptions for fixing the problems. Such an attempt would be futile given the limited size of the article. Governance Bureaucracy Politics Bangladesh Corruption In today's complex world, aggrandized globalization, strengthened regionalism...

... contexts by Japan's political elite may, paradoxically, delay achievement of more culturally accommodating reform of the bureaucracy acceptable to all the country's principal democratic stakeholders. Practical implications The need for Japan's public sector reformers to evolve a unique form of NPM...

...Leslie Budd Purpose Seeks to examine changes in the environment in which public policy and public management operate and the claim that bureaucracy has been replaced by post‐bureaucracy as a result of these changes. Design/methodology/approach The paper proposes reanimated public governance...

...Madhu Ranjan Kumar Purpose This paper seeks to assess the hierarchical tendencies among direct recruit managers, managers promoted from supervisory grade and supervisors in a large bureaucracy in India using an instrument developed in India. Design/methodology/approach The instrument assesses...

... professionals. Design/methodology/approach The main thesis in Lipsky's work, Street‐Level Bureaucracy, that street‐level bureaucrats devise their own rules and procedures to deal with the dilemmas of policy implementation is linked to public sector reform over the past 25 years or so. The article...

... that cultural and social theories, drawn from anthropology and organisational psychology, make to an understanding of the processes by which public servants’ identity are formed and changed. It complements this with an examination of different models of bureaucracy, which reflect the transition from classical...

... on the original paper “Bureaucracy meet catastrophe: analysis of the Tsunami disaster relief efforts and their implications for global emergency governance”, to be published in early 2006. It again highlights the severe shortcomings of the bureaucratic model as a paradigm for responding to situations in which...

.... Findings These reports from the tsunami disaster highlight the key problems of bureaucracies, including slow decision‐making, inability to absorb and process outside information, and escalation of commitment to failed courses of action. Research limitations/implications Suggestions for future research...

... preliminary sketch of the possible consequences of transition to the bureaucratic model. In his writing about both bureaucracy and capitalism, Weber distinguished between “formal” and “substantive” rationality. The former “designates the extent of quantitative calculation or accounting which...

... in the decision‐making process. In developing these points further argues that bureaucracies provide an important linkage in marshalling implicit habitual behaviour to multiple‐organisational goals. In so doing, bureaucratic structures represent part of the mechanism which facilitates effective organisational...

...Keith M. Henderson Explores the record of alternative urban service delivery in selected world areas and assesses the prospects for new designs intended to implement specific programs. It is a continuation of a project which in 1999 culminated in a book entitled Bureaucracy and the Alternatives...

... Corporate culture Public administration Bureaucracy Organizational change For our part, we may re‐group this classification, as we believe that, regardless of whether there are subcultures or not, the orientation of public values may follow two basic tendencies, which we shall term a bureaucratic...

... relationships which organizations develop, “cultural differences” between two stylized extremes – the firm in a market environment and public bureaucracy – are postulated. Then tentatively applies the model to available evidence on compulsory competitive tendering in the UK local authority sector...

.... In the period after the Second World War attempts at reform were hindered by increased number of Civil Servants and economic problems, particularly inflation and a fall in the standard of living. Traces the difficulties which emerged between the bureaucracy and successive governments as a direct result...