Administration & Society articles from August 1993

Administration & Society archives from August 1993

Organizational metapatterns: tacit relationships in organizational culture.
August 1, 1993... New approaches to the study of organizations have promised to reveal aspects of organizational life least susceptible to analysis by the mainstream approaches of rationalism and functionalism (Morgan, 1986; Weick, 1979). Prominent among these...

Constitutional subordinate autonomy: serving multiple masters - a normative theory in practice.
August 1, 1993... Public administration literature, both past and present, is replete with attempts to address two related issues: how to reconcile the exercise of significant discretion by unelected (and therefore assumed to be unaccountable) civil servants...

Building microcomputing skills in public administration graduate education: an assessment of MPA programs.
August 1, 1993... The proliferation of computer technologies is an indisputable fact of (work) life in the United Between 1980 and 1987, Americans spent about $160 billion buying almost 14 million computers--20 times the number of computers bought in all...

The relationship between values and practice: organizational climates for wrongdoing.
August 1, 1993... In recent years, scholarly literature has been developing concerning whistle-blowing, defined as "the disclosure by organization members (former or current) of illegal, immoral or illegitimate practices under the control of their employers, to...

Public bureaucracy and regionalism in South Korea.
August 1, 1993... Political scientists (Birch, 1969; Dixon, 1968; Engstrom & McDonald, 1981; Eulau & Karps, 1977; Fishel, 1973; Jennings & Callahan 1985; Pitkin, 1967; Weisberg, 1978) studying representation in government have traditionally concentrated on...

The federal courts and nonprofit administration: is it purely a private affair?
August 1, 1993... Over the past three decades, the federal courts have made it clear to employees, clients, and administrators that publicly funded, private, nonprofit corporations are not government agencies. The nongovernmental status of publicly funded...