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Managing Successful Organizational Change in the Public Sector
Sergio Fernandez,Hal G. Rainey +1 more
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This paper found that organizational change in government agencies has not induced a high volume of articles that explicitly address the topic in public administration journals, but that there are prominent exceptions to this observation (e.g., Bryson and Anderson 2000; Chackerian and Mavima 2000; Mani 1995; Wise 2002 ).Abstract:
C an governmental organizations change? Reform initiatives have swept through governments in the United States and overseas, again and again bringing news about eff orts to reinvent, transform, or reform government agencies ( Barzelay 2001; Kettl 2000; Pollitt and Bouckaert 2000; Stillman 1999 ). Curiously, however, this recurrent theme of change in government agencies has not induced a high volume of articles that explicitly address the topic in public administration journals. # ere are prominent exceptions to this observation (e.g., Bryson and Anderson 2000; Chackerian and Mavima 2000; Mani 1995; Wise 2002 ) and journal articles about topics related to organizational change (e.g., Berman and Wang 2000; Brudney and Wright 2002; Hood and Peters 2004 ). Articles reporting research and theory with titles containing “ organizational change ” and with that theme as a focal topic, however, appear with much less regularity in public administration journals than in research journals focusing on general management and organization theory.read more
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The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields (Chinese Translation)
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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Smart city as urban innovation: focusing on management, policy, and context
Taewoo Nam,Theresa A. Pardo +1 more
TL;DR: This paper aims to fill the research gap by building a comprehensive framework to view the smart city movement as innovation comprised of technology, management and policy.
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Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
TL;DR: In this article, a new explanation for why international peace interventions often fail to reach their full potential is presented, based on several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world, which demonstrates that everyday elements -such as the expatriates' social habits and usual approaches to understand their areas of operation - strongly influence international peacebuilding effectiveness.
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Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity
TL;DR: The Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity as discussed by the authors report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
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An Empirical Evaluation of Innovation Types and Organizational and Environmental Characteristics: Towards a Configuration Framework
TL;DR: The authors identify the antecedents of service, organizational process (organization and marketization), and ancillary innovation types and show that complementary relationships between innovation types might not be as widespread as is theorized.
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The iron cage revisited institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields
Paul DiMaggio,Walter W. Powell +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them, and describe three isomorphic processes-coercive, mimetic, and normative.
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The Iron Caged Revisited : Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
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Leadership in Organizations
TL;DR: This book presents a meta-leadership framework for a post-modern view of leadership that considers the role of language, identity, and self-consistency in the development of leaders.
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Structural Inertia and Organizational Change
Michael T. Hannan,John Freeman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider structural inertia in organizational populations as an outcome of an ecological-evolutionary process and define structural inertia as a correspondence between a class of organizations and their environments.