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Agency, Interrupted: Does Organizational Restructuring Improve Managerial Gender Parity? Testing a Disruption Hypothesis

Public Administration Review, Volume 86, Issue 4, Page 930-950, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Administrative restructuring is an organizational phenomenon suggested to improve under‐represented groups' managerial representation by disrupting networks and institutions. However, extant tests of a ‘disruption hypothesis’ are collectively inconclusive. We elaborate and test it with a qualitative‐to‐quantitative study of local health agency
Rebecca A. E. Kirley, Carlotta Varriale
wiley   +1 more source

HOW TO MAKE AN ENTREPRENEURIAL STATE: WHY INNOVATION NEEDS BUREAUCRACY

Farabi Journal of Social Sciences
 “How to Make an Entrepreneurial State: Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy” by Rainer Kattel, Wolfgang Drechsler, and Erkki Karo offers an analytical approach to creating successful “innovation bureaucracies” with a wealth of exemplary policies, practices,
H. Deligöz
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Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy

Australian Journal of Public Administration, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 345-361, June 2026.
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Conceptualización de las causas y consecuencias de los Estados fallidos: una reseña crítica de la literatura.

Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2010
This article provides a critical review of recent literature which has attempted to define what a ‘failed state’ is and explain why such states emerge. It is argued that aggregate indices of ‘failure’ are misleading due to the wide variations of capacity
Jonathan Di John.
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Insurance and the “Irrationalization” of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk

The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 482-495, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In the last several years, disaster insurance programs around the world have experienced disruptions that many observers interpret to be a primary symptom of “climate crisis” (Bittle 2024). Governments have responded to these disruptions through disjointed and at times contradictory measures: they treat disasters, alternately, as “Acts of God”
Stephen J. Collier
wiley   +1 more source

Italy: set along a Neo-Weberian trajectory of administrative reform?

, 2016
This chapter discusses the ‘effects’ of recent public sector managerial reforms in Italy. It arises, inter alia, that the country has adopted managerial tools to a significant extent, yet not up to the point to have changed in any fundamental way the ...
Edoardo Ongaro, Longo, Francesco, Ferré, Francesca, Galli, Davide, Galli D., Francesca Ferre, Francesco Longo, Ongaro, Edoardo, Davide Galli   +8 more
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STRATEGIC COORDINATION AND POLICY CAPACITY: EXECUTIVE INSTITUTIONS AS DRIVERS OF GOVERNANCE INNOVATION IN ARMENIA

Banber Erevani Hamalsarani. Sots'iologia
This article examines the transformation of executive institutions in the Republic of Armenia through the lens of political sociology, viewing them not merely as administrative structures but as arenas of struggle for symbolic and material capital ...
Marina Margaryan
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Moving Beyond New Public Management: How Business Type‐Management Is Embedded in the Swedish State Through Institutional Hooks

Public Administration, Volume 104, Issue 2, Page 371-381, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In recent years, criticism facing Business‐Type Management within the state has led governments to call for new management models. In many cases, this ambition has not been accompanied by concrete actions signaling a clear break with BTM. There has been limited capacity for critical reflection, learning, and innovative thinking.
Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg, Göran Sundström   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Neo-Weberian Theory of the Firm [PDF]

, 2004
In the field of organization studies, two types of theories of the firm exist: "why" and "how" theories. "Why" theories use the instrument of comparative analysis to explain why firms exist despite various institutional alternatives.
Heugens, Pursey P.M.A.R.
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Two Pathways to Proletarianization: Understanding Professionals' Adaptation to the “Corporatization” of Chinese Law Firms

Sociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 291-307, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how lawyers in China adapt to the “corporatization” of law firms, which limits their professional autonomy within bureaucratic structures. “Proletarianization” theory, which emerged in the 1970s, effectively explains employment relations and internal stratification within the legal profession, but it has been underestimated
Xinyi Shen
wiley   +1 more source