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China After the Reform Era [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
China’s reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it – political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth – are unraveling.
Minzner, Carl F.
core   +2 more sources

Theorizing Synchronization of Organizational Resources in Dynamic Environments

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Resource orchestration (RO) in dynamic environments poses challenges during strategic initiatives. Although prior research highlights RO's benefits, little is known about how managerial decisions influence RO over time, potentially leading to inefficiencies.
Haytham Siala   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Implementation, Street-level Bureaucracy, and the Importance of Discretion

open access: yesPublic Management Review, 2013
Street-level bureaucrats implementing public policies have a certain degree of autonomy – or discretion – in their work. Following Lipsky, discretion has received wide attention in the policy implementation literature. However, scholars have not developed theoretical frameworks regarding the effects of discretion, which were then tested these using ...
Lars Tummers, Victor Bekkers
openaire   +3 more sources

Travelling the Two‐Way Street: Disrupting Colonial History

open access: yesNew Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using examples from the historical narratives about Kainai (Blackfoot Confederacy) painter Gerald Tailfeathers, this chapter challenges colonial narratives in Canadian history and historiography. Inspired by the author's participation in a Disrupting interview, the chapter explores both the author's personal history with colonial histories and
Kirk Niergarth
wiley   +1 more source

Administrative Burdens and Inequities in COBRA Take‐Up

open access: yesWorld Medical &Health Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To what extent does COBRA's lack of program visibility and complexity induce inequities in access to this form of health insurance? Though COBRA has long been an important tool for helping workers to avoid “job lock,” precious little scholarship has been devoted to understanding its reach.
Miranda Yaver
wiley   +1 more source

Czego nie widać? Literatura o polityce rynku pracy a praktyki urzędników pierwszego kontaktu

open access: yesStudia z Polityki Publicznej, 2017
Polityka rynku pracy jest w literaturze naukowej przedstawiana abstrakcyjnie przez pryzmat statystyk, wydatków, przepisów i struktur organizacyjnych. Natomiast niewiele dowiadujemy się z niej o codziennym funkcjonowaniu powiatowych urzędów pracy, czyli ...
Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska
doaj   +1 more source

From “Clientelism” to a “Client-centred orientation”? The challenge of public administration reform in Russia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The inefficiency, corruption and lack of accountability that afflict public administration in Russia impose substantial direct costs on both entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens.
Tompson, William
core  

Public Service Motivation Differences Between Permanent and Contract Employees in the Local Government [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article examines the distinction of public service motivation (PSM) on street-level bureaucracy in Indonesia. Focus of this study is to review the differentiation of public service motivation between permanent and contract employees in sub-districts
Yudiatmaja, W. E. (Wayu)
core   +3 more sources

Evidence Use at the Regional Health Agency of Ile‐de‐France: Analysis of Practices, Obstacles, and Needs

open access: yesWorld Medical &Health Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professionals and decision‐makers in regional or local administrations often face time and resource constraints that hinder evidence‐based decision‐making. This article examines the practices, obstacles, and needs relating to evidence use within the Regional Health Agency of Ile‐de‐France, a decentralized agency of the French Ministry of ...
Tony Zitti   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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