Although there is consensus among scholars that red tape has negative consequences,
there is a lack of synthesis on these negative effects. We conduct a meta‐analysis and meta …

A rule is divisive when its legitimacy is contested and divisive rules are an enduring theme of
public administration research. For over three decades, this research has been shaped by …

Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award Presented by the Public and Nonprofit Section
of the National Academy of Management Winner of the 2019 Louis Brownlow Book Award …

Recent years have seen a dramatic growth in the study of frictions that individuals
experience, especially in their interactions with the public sector, creating both the potential …

Other social science fields are increasingly conducting research using Amazon's
Mechanical Turk (MTurk)—an online crowdsourcing platform—but how might MTurk be …

Firms across the globe are affected by red tape, but there is little academic research on how
country‐level institutions shape red tape perceptions. Drawing on institutional theory, we …

Police departments struggle to recruit officers, and voluntary drop‐off of candidates
exacerbates this challenge. Using four years of administrative data and a field experiment …

Replication is increasingly recognized as an important part of knowledge production in the
social sciences, especially for experimental research. However, despite growing use of …

Red tape has been viewed as a key concept in public administration for decades and one
that can significantly impact the human resource management (HRM) process. Theoretically …

Most research has conceptualized red tape as being a pathological subset of organizational
formalization. This article argues that focusing on a single dimension of organizational …