Although many contemporary organizations face institutional pressures to embrace open
organizing principles, some defer or decline the call. We examine how existing bureaucratic …

Open Government is en vogue, yet vague: while practitioners, policy-makers, and others
praise its virtues, little is known about how Open Government relates to bureaucratic …

'Openness' has become an organizational leitmotif of our time, spreading across a growing
set of organizational domains. However, discussions within these specialized domains (eg …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of organizational culture on
open government reforms by developing a theoretical framework bridging the theory and …

Recently, openness has become a new approach in strategizing as ownership and control
of internal assets are no longer vital to achieving competitive advantage (Chesbrough & …

Scholars and policymakers claim open government offers a panoply of good governance
benefits, but it also risks political abuse as window dressing or a smokescreen. To address …

A burgeoning literature refers to the effect of hypercompetitive conditions on organizations.
The new orthodoxy involves reference to the disintegration of vertical, rational bureaucracies …

This article places the Obama administration's open government initiative within the context
of evolution of the US information society. It examines the concept of openness along the …

Purpose A core premise of the paper is that participative, democratic organizational forms
have a direct effect on openness. A key proposition is that organizational forms that promote …

The bureaucratic organization is still regarded as the conventional organizational form, but
is ill‐suited to an increasingly pluralistic world. Research on the variety of organizational …