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Public and Private Management: What's the Difference?
- George A. Boyne
- Economics
- 14 December 2002
Critics of New Public Management argue that differences between public and private organizations are so great that business practices should not be transferred to the public sector. In this paper the… Expand
Sources of public service improvement: a critical review and research agenda
- George A. Boyne
- Business, Political Science
- 1 July 2003
Evidence from sixty-five empirical studies of public service performance is critically reviewed. The statistical results are grouped on the basis of five theoretical perspectives: resources,… Expand
Bureaucratic Theory Meets Reality: Public Choice and Service Contracting in U.S. Local Government
- George A. Boyne
- Economics
- 1 November 1998
Public choice theory suggests that if public officials monopolize service delivery, then the result is oversupply and inefficiency (Blais and Dion, 1992; Jackson, 1982; McMaster and Sawkins, 1996;… Expand
Escape from the Iron Cage? Organizational Change and Isomorphic Pressures in the Public Sector
- R. Ashworth, George A. Boyne, R. Delbridge
- Economics
- 13 November 2007
Institutional theory suggests that organizations pursue legitimacy by conforming to isomorphic pressures in their environment. We extend previous research on institutional theory by distinguishing… Expand
Strategy Content and Public Service Organizations
- George A. Boyne, R. Walker
- Economics
- 1 April 2004
Existing classifications of organizational strategy have limited relevance to public agencies. They confuse strategy processes and strategy content, consist of simplistic taxonomies, and do not take… Expand
Theme: Local Government: Concepts and Indicators of Local Authority Performance: An Evaluation of the Statutory Frameworks in England and Wales
- George A. Boyne
- Economics
- 1 April 2002
A conceptual framework for evaluating statutory performance indicators for local authorities is developed. The framework, which contains 14 dimensions of organizational performance, is then applied… Expand
Strategy Content and Organizational Performance: An Empirical Analysis
- R. Andrews, George A. Boyne, R. Walker
- Economics
- 2006
This study presents the first empirical test of the proposition that strategy content is a key determinant of organizational performance in the public sector. Strategy content comprises two… Expand
Strategy Formulation, Strategy Content and Performance
- R. Andrews, George A. Boyne, Jennifer Law, R. Walker
- Economics
- 1 January 2009
Abstract This article tests the independent effects of strategy formulation and strategy content on organizational performance. The formulation variables include rational planning, logical… Expand
The Determinants of Variations in Local Service Contracting
- George A. Boyne
- Economics
- 1 September 1998
Empirical evidence on the determinants of variations in service contracting across U.S. local governments is evaluated. Four main categories of explanatory variables are analyzed: fiscal stress,… Expand
What is public service improvement
- George A. Boyne
- Business
- 1 June 2003
Five conceptual models of public service improvement are derived from the large literature on organizational effectiveness. These are the goal, systems-resource, internal process, competing values… Expand
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