Organizing Government

Four Volume Set

Edited by:

George Boyne
Rachel Ashworth - Cardiff University, UK

July 2010 | 1 576 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Comprising theoretical and empirical perspectives and drawn from international journals with a global focus, Organizing Government, a three-volume set presents the key papers in macro-organizational and micro-organizational studies and their implications on public administration.

Divided into two sections, the first part of this collection adopts a sector-wide focus, concentrating on the issues of governance, politics, markets and competition, regulation and inter-organizational relations. The second section concentrates on management issues in an organizational context, addressing leadership, strategy and change management.

Drawing on experience of both academic and professional spheres, the editors incorporate a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives spanning organizational behavior, organizational theory, human resource management and strategy, forming a resource that will be invaluable to all students of management in the public sector.

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VOLUME ONE: ORGANIZING GOVERNMENT

Inter-Organizational Relations

The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective Rationality in organizational fields

Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell

Studying Governance and Public Management: Challenges and prospects

Laurence E. Lynn Jr., Carolyn J. Heinrich and Carolyn J. Hill

The Creation and Evolution of Quasi Markets in the Public Sector: A problem for strategic management

Ewan Ferlie

Bureaucratic Theory Meets Reality: Public choice and service contracting in U.S. local government

George A. Boyne

Privatization and Its Reverse: Explaining the dynamics of the government contracting process

Amir Hefetz and Mildred Warner

'What Counts Is What Works'? Constructing Evaluations of Market Mechanisms

Janet Newman

The New Governance: Governing without government

R.A.W. Rhodes

Governance without Government? Rethinking public administration

Guy Peters and John Pierre

A Preliminary Theory of Interorganizational Network Effectiveness: A comparative study of four community mental health systems

Keith G. Provan and H. Brinton Milward

Using Collaboration as a Governance Strategy: Lessons from six watershed management programs

Mark T. Imperial

The new Governance: Practices and processes for stakeholder and citizen participation in the work of government

Lisa Blomgren Bingham, Tina Nabatchi and Rosemary O'Leary

The Dynamics of Multi-Organizational Partnerships: An analysis of changing modes of governance

Vivien Lowndes and Chris Skelcher

The Old Ways Are the Best? The Durability and Usefulness of Bureaucracy in Public Sector Management

Jill Schofield

VOLUME TWO: ORGANIZING GOVERNMENT

Regulation of Professionals

The Study of Administration

Woodrow Wilson

A Theory of Political Control and Agency Discretion

Randall L. Calvert, Mathew D. McCubbins and Barry R. Weingast

The Dynamics of Political-Bureaucratic Adaptation

B. Dan Wood and Richard W. Waterman

Expertise in Accountability: Institutions and Techniques

Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein

New Modes of Control in the Public Service

Paul Hoggett

Control, Bargains, and Cheating: The Politics of Public-Service Reform

Christopher Hood

Auditing and the Reinvention of Governance

Michael Power

Public Services and the Theory of Regulation

Michael Barrow

An Inspector Calls? Regulation and Accountability in Three Public Services

Gordon Hughes, Robert Mears and Christopher Winch

The Web of Managerial Accountability: The impact of reinventing government

Stephen Page

Regulatory Problems in the Public Sector: Theories and Cases

Rachel Ashworth, George A. Boyne and Richard M. Walker

Performance Management

Evolution of Performance Measurement until 1930

Daniel W. Williams

The Theory of Government Failure

Julian Le Grand

On the Concept of Organizational Goal

Herbert A. Simon

Organizational Performance and Multiple Constituencies

Herman L. Boschken

Quality and Public Services

Kieron Walsh

Citizen Satisfaction and Administrative Performance Measures: Is There Really a Link?

Janet M. Kelly

Sources of Public Service Improvement: A Critical Review and Research Agenda

George A. Boyne

Modeling the Impact of Public Management: Implications of Structural Context

Laurence J. O'Toole Jr. and Kenneth J. Meier

Galloping Elephants: Developing Elements of a Theory of Effective Government Organizations

Hal G. Rainey and Paula Steinbauer

Justification by Works or by Faith? Evaluating the New Public Management

Christopher Pollitt

Outcome-Related Performance Indicators and Organizational Control in the Public Sector

Peter Smith

VOLUME THREE: ORGANIZING GOVERNMENT

Strategy

Public and Private Management: Are they fundamentally alike in all unimportant respects?

Graham T. Allison

Strategic Management in Public and Private Organizations: Implications of distinctive contexts and constraints

Peter Smith Ring and James L. Perry

Comparing Public and Private Organizations: Empirical research and the power of the a priori

Hal G. Rainey and Barry Bozeman

The Science of "Muddling Through"

Charles E. Lindblom

If Planning Is Everything Maybe It's Nothing

Aaron Wildavsky

Innovation in Public Management: The Adoption of Strategic Planning

Frances Stokes Berry

Policy Making and Administration in State Agencies: Strategic management approaches

Barton Wechsler and Robert W. Backoff

Managerial Strategies in Local Government

Royston Greenwood

Strategy Content and Organizational Performance: An Empirical Analysis

Rhys Andrews, George A. Boyne and Richard M. Walker

The Fiscal Distress of Local Governments in Israel: Sources and Coping Strategies

Abraham Carmeli

Leadership

Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers

Donald C. Hambrick and Phyllis A. Mason

The Romance of Leadership

James R. Meindl, Sanford B. Ehrlich and Janet M. Dukerich

Administrative Reform: Changing leadership roles?

Tom Christensen

Administrative Leadership, Neo-Managerialism, and the Public Management Movement

Larry D. Terry

Average Tenure of Academic Department Heads: The effects of paradigm, size, and departmental demography

Jeffrey Pfeffer and William L. Moore

Explaining the Tenure of Local Government Managers

Richard C. Feiock and Christopher Stream

Integrative Leadership in the Public Sector: A model of performance-information use

Donald P. Moynihan and Patricia Wallace Ingraham

An Evaluation of Leadership as a Response to Agency Failure in the Public Sector

Joe Wallis and Brian Dollery

The Role of Democratic Values in Transformational Leadership

Janet V. Denhardt and Kelly B. Campbell

Developing and Testing an Integrative Framework of Public Sector Leadership: Evidence from the public education arena

Sergio Fernandez

VOLUME FOUR: ORGANIZING GOVERNMENT

Managing Change

Change in the Management of Public Services

John Stewart and Kieron Walsh

Outcomes of Planned Organizational Change in the Public Sector: A meta-analytic comparison to the private sector

Peter J. Robertson and Sonal J. Seneviratne

Strategies for Public Service Turnaround: Lessons from the Private Sector

George A. Boyne

Redesigning Public Services: Challenges of practice for policy

Terry McNulty

Public Sector Services and Their Management

Stephen Ackroyd, John A. Hughes and Keith Soothill

Identifying, Enabling and Managing Dynamic Capabilities in the Public Sector

Amy L. Pablo, Trish Reay, James R. Dewald and Ann L. Casebeer

Change Management - Strategy and Values in Six Agencies from the Australian Public Service

Jenny Stewart and Paul Kringas

Microprocesses of Institutional Change in the Context of Privatization

Gerry Johnson, Stuart Smith and Brian Codling

Managing Successful Organizational Change in the Public Sector

Sergio Fernandez and Hal G. Rainey

Theorizing the Micro-Politics of Resistance: New Public Management and Managerial Identities in the UK Public Services

Robyn Thomas and Annette Davies

Changing Public Service Organizations: Current Perspectives and Future Prospects

Ewan Ferlie, Jean Hartley and Steve Martin

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