Not with a bang, but whimper : explaining organizational failures
By: MEIER, Kenneth J
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Contributor(s): Bohte, John.
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, March 2003Online resources: Click here to access online Administration & Society 35, 1, p. 104-121Abstract: This article uses an ideal stereotypical approach to examine the process of the organizational failures. Private sector stereotypes of government organizations are used to generate hypotheses about whe public organization fail. The hwpotheses are tested using 1.000 school districts in Texas. In direct contrast to the hypotheses, the extent of bureaucracy is not related to failures. The only consistent results are that failure are linked to multiple goals and more difficult tasks
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This article uses an ideal stereotypical approach to examine the process of the organizational failures. Private sector stereotypes of government organizations are used to generate hypotheses about whe public organization fail. The hwpotheses are tested using 1.000 school districts in Texas. In direct contrast to the hypotheses, the extent of bureaucracy is not related to failures. The only consistent results are that failure are linked to multiple goals and more difficult tasks
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