A good deal of research has demonstrated how public service motivation (PSM) facilitates desirable organizational attitudes and behaviors such as job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and work effort. Other research has demonstrated that PSM predicts higher levels of social capital and...

Public services are delivered less and less through single hierarchical organizations, and more and more through networks of multiple organizations that can come from any level of government, as well as from the private and nonprofit sectors. Networks provide governments with the flexibility to...

This paper examines the nature of learning in networks dealing with conditions of high uncertainty. I take Koppenjan and Klijn’s (2004) framework for understanding network uncertainty and apply it to an extreme example of uncertainty, an interorganizational crisis taskforce dealing with an...

This paper proposes and tests a detailed model of turnover intention on a large sample of State of Texas employees. The paper focuses attention on three particular theoretical issues. First, the results offer support for a life-cycle stability hypothesis, which suggests that age, experience, and...

In responding to Professor Lynn’s criticism that the field of public administration has been insufficiently attentive to law, this article offers an alternative perspective on the source of administrative legitimacy. Leonard White understood that public administration is shaped by its broader...

Moynihan and Silva believe that more research is required that gives public officials advice on which approach is better under different criteria and institutional arrangements, and that given the increased adoption of DRE technologies, a most pertinent research question is to understand how...

This paper examines response problems to Hurricane Katrina from a network perspective, identifying how network task, capacity and coordination factors weakened the response. The impact of Katrina called for a response network of such size and diversity that it was inherently difficult to...

How do public organizations learn? The organizational learning literature suggests distinct cultural and structural routes to learning. However, such categorizations oversimplify. Leaders seeking to foster learning should recognize that most relevant organizational variables combine structural...

In the 1990s all levels of government witnessed many reforms intended to enhance government performance. These reforms included a number of management techniques that focused on improving government’s strategic capacity. “Managing for results”

A growing literature has sought to demonstrate when and how government capacity links to performance. This article examines those questions in the area of financial management. A basic challenge for state governments is to maintain budgetary stability and program predictability in face of...