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Past research has clearly demonstrated that a high level of interorganizational coordination among human services agencies is extremely difficult to achieve and maintain and that the dynamics of interorganizational coordination and conflict are poorly understood. In the interest of better...
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This study is directly concerned with the articulation of strategic choice in the public sector. Despite the considerable amount of literature dealing with strategic management, there has been little empirical study to support theoretical constructs. The parameters of the model are derived from...
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The problem. Public entrepreneurship is increasingly regarded as the means to manage governmental organizations, even through, the approach has not been fully investigated and researched. The term entrepreneurship is often overused and the process by which it occurs is not understood. This...
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The influence of taxes, expenditures and economic development policies upon the rate of growth in the tax base, as measured by both total state personal income and population, was examined for the 48 contiguous states from 1974 through 1991. This was done to establish whether a mobility model...
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The study had three objectives: (a) to determine the causes of turnover among particular career service employees in the Departments of Corrections (DC), Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV), Health and Rehabilitative Services (DHRS), and Agriculture and Consumer Services (DA & CS); (b) to...
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This study was designed to examine the applicability and usefulness of contingency theory within the Saudi setting. According to this theory, to understand the structure and function of public bureaucracy, one must understand the external environment which influences that bureaucracy through...
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This study examined the World Bank's approach to institution building and its efforts to enhance the institutionalization of government organizations responsible for implementing 28 Bank-assisted projects in four development sectors in Jordan: Energy, Water and Sewerage, Education and Manpower...
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This study is devoted to discussing the budgetary process in Saudi Arabia. It focuses on budgetary recommendations, process participants, participant roles, process steps, and information sources. It indicates that budget officials are influenced by the limitation in time, the shortage of human...
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International comparisons of Civil Services usually overlook the difficulties due to differing definitions of the civil service in national legal systems. Comparative statistics are therefore extremely misleading, as they are at best based on formal-legal criteria instead of being based on...
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