Why do some public organizations survive and others do not? The bureaucratic
retrenchment efforts since the 1980s showed public administration scholars that the …

Many of the fundamental research questions in public administration relate to individual‐or
organization‐level temporal dynamics, including the impact of public sector reforms,(in) …

Employees frequently have ideas and opinions on the execution of tasks or on the
organization itself. Yet, sometimes employees remain silent and withhold this valuable input …

A growing body of literature attempts to explain the life‐cycles of public sector organizations.
Of particular interest have been the form and incidence of their birth and termination, and …

We investigate the life span and risk of termination of 723 arm's length agencies in the
United Kingdom between 1985 and 2008, an under investigated question in parliamentary …

Identifying and explaining change in the structure of central state bureaucracies and the
determinants of survival of individual public organizations are two closely related areas of …

This study explores the determinants of structural changes and continuities of public sector
organizations in Korea using longitudinal data. Focusing on the political costs of termination …

Managing budgetary crisis is often seen as a process involving the extensive balancing
between different, often competing interests and groups. Hungary's post-2010 history …

This article provides the introduction to a special edition that presents for the first time a
series of detailed country case studies concerned with the matter of organizational life …

Although Lithuanian agencies are relatively young, since 1990 they have experienced many
organizational changes. The purpose of this article is to explain the change and continuity of …