How policymakers should guide, manage, and oversee public bureaucracies is a question
that lies at the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration …

Organizations are socially constructed phenomena. A crucial task for organizational
research is to analyze how and why people construct organizations rather than other social …

Large contemporary organizations seem to be in an almost continual state of change.
Whether in public or private organizations, managers are trying to implement new …

abstract The central question addressed in this paper is 'Why have organizational strategies
emerged in the public sector?'Two broad answers are suggested. First,'strategies' profile the …

A nationwide project has made many Dutch municipalities familiar with the application of
various business‐like concepts, such as output budgeting and responsibility accounting …

This paper is concerned with performance evaluation of top professional managers by local
politicians. Based on the opinions of a small group of experts and a written survey of 262 …

Jedną z przesłanek budowania relacji pomiędzy organizacją publiczną a poszczególnymi
interesariuszami są zasoby interesariusza, które organizacja chcę pozyskać. Z drugiej …

There is an international tendency to replace governmental funding based on fixed grants by
different reforms implying accountable management methods. In this article we focus on the …

Alongside with the introduction of New Public Management, many governmental
organizations in the Netherlands were autonomized. The aim of this paper is to analyze the …

One area of firm behavior that plainly is governed by a highly structured set of routines is
accounting. Like other routines of real organizations, accounting procedures have the …