Abstract Hal G. Rainey and Paula Steinbauer (1999) recently proposed a theory of effective
government organizations. 1 Several other theories exist in whole or in part, but empirical …

This chapter has twin aims. First, I address the important matter of measuring organizational
performance and argue that it is a socially-constructed concept; thus, all measures of …

We assess the usefulness of a theory of organizations, the Resource-Based View, for the
study of public agencies. We examine the differential impacts of an array of organizational …

The dependent variable in all the articles presented in this symposium issue of JPART was
organizational performance in public agencies. Management variables included …

Based on five years of extensive research by the Government Performance Project, this
volume offers a comprehensive analysis of how government managers and elected officials …

Over the past two decades, many studies have investigated the scope and significance of
performance measurement in public organizations. Nonetheless, there is more to learn …

This research examines hypotheses about the prevalence of performance measurement in
counties. It focuses on organizational relationships, structures, and goals that are relevant to …

In this journal, Rainey and Steinbauer proposed a theory of effective government
organizations, and Brewer and Selden conducted an empirical study with data from the …

The question of bureaucratic effectiveness has been an issue of great concern and
disagreement in the field of American politics and public administration. Various “schools of …

Much of the theory and discourse on public bureaucracies treats them negatively, as if they
incline inevitably toward weak performance. This orientation prevails in spite of considerable …