Change in Public BureaucraciesCambridge University Press, 1979 M10 31 - 251 páginas This book examines in detail the process of change in 240 city, county and state public bureaucracies responsible for local finance administration. Using the longitudinal method of analysis, the data show organizational structures to be much less stable than conventional stereotypes have suggested. Variables such as organizational leadership, claims to domain, and survival (as opposed to replacement or reorganization) were found to mediate environmental effects on bureaucracies. The book also discusses traditional theories of bureaucracy, theories emphasizing the importance of environment for organizational theory is possible. The concluding chapter draws extensive theoretical implications from the empirical findings of the study. |
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Issues in organizational theory | 16 |
Organizational research | 42 |
The concept of organizational structure | 72 |
Some effects of leadership | 97 |
Organizational domains | 128 |
The process of bureaucratization | 157 |
Implications | 185 |
Questionnaire items used in constructing | 222 |
Cities counties and states covered in 1966 | 230 |
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1966 competitors accounting activities Administrative Science Quarterly agen autocorrelations Blau budget unit bureaus Calif causal paths Chapter City civil service claims to domain closed-system coefficients comptrollers correlations cracy demand variables department head departments of administration effects of origins elements empirical employees envi environmental demand exogenous federal finance agencies finance departments finance director fiscal functions ganizations head of government HEDEL hence hierarchy hypotheses immediate environment implications increased interval lagged larger environment leadership conditions leadership turnover levels of supervision local-government ments merit number of divisions occurs offices organiza organizational studies organizational theory organizations pattern percent personnel procedures political predictability processes public agencies public bureaucracies quasi-market rational-legal authority Regressions of 1972 relationships reorganization ronment rules sections societal sociological spans of control spoils system stability struc subunits suggest Table Tenure tion tional structure Total funds administered uncertainty variables describing Weber whereas zations Zero order