Bureaucrats And Entrepreneurs

Author : Richard N. Haass
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815791041

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The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur by Richard N. Haass Pdf

How do you figure out what to do in a job? How do you get it done? How should you deal with demanding bosses? How can you get the most out of subordinates? What should you do to get along with difficult colleagues and handle powerful interest groups and the media? Just how can you succeed in a world where persuasion rather than direct command is the rule? Using a compass as his operating metaphor--your boss is north of you, your staff is south, colleagues are east and so on--Richard Haass provides clear, practical guidelines for setting goals and translating goals into results. The result is a lively, useful book for the tens of millions of Americans working in complex and unruly organizations of every sort and for students of both public administration and business. The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur is a new and updated edition of Haass's 1994 book, The Power to Persuade.

Author : Manuel P. Teodoro
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781421402451

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Bureaucratic Ambition by Manuel P. Teodoro Pdf

Winner of the Herbert A. Simon Book Award of the American Political Science Association, American Society for Public Administration Book Award of the American Society for Public Administration Political scientists and public administration scholars have long recognized that innovation in public agencies is contingent on entrepreneurial bureaucratic executives. But unlike their commercial counterparts, public administration “entrepreneurs” do not profit from their innovations. What motivates enterprising public executives? How are they created? Manuel P. Teodoro’s theory of bureaucratic executive ambition explains why pioneering leaders aren not the result of serendipity, but rather arise out of predictable institutional design. Teodoro explains the systems that foster or frustrate entrepreneurship among public executives. Through case studies and quantitative analysis of original data, he shows how psychological motives and career opportunities shape administrators’ decisions, and he reveals the consequences these choices have for innovation and democratic governance. Tracing the career paths and political behavior of agency executives, Teodoro finds that, when advancement involves moving across agencies, ambitious bureaucrats have strong incentives for entrepreneurship. Where career advancement occurs vertically within a single organization, ambitious bureaucrats have less incentive for innovation, but perhaps greater accountability. This research introduces valuable empirical methods and has already generated additional studies. A powerful argument for the art of the possible, Bureaucratic Ambition advances a flexible theory of politics and public administration. Its lessons will enrich debate among scholars and inform policymakers and career administrators.

Author : Eugene Lewis
Publisher : Midland Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015003960229

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Public Entrepreneurship by Eugene Lewis Pdf

Author : Corey Robin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780190692001

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The Reactionary Mind by Corey Robin Pdf

Now updated to include Trump's election and the rise of global populism, Corey Robin's 'The Reactionary Mind' traces conservatism back to its roots in the reaction against the French Revolution.

Author : Nissim Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108818862

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Policy Entrepreneurship at the Street Level by Nissim Cohen Pdf

This Element aims to connect the literature of street-level bureaucrats with that of policy entrepreneurship in order to analyze why and how bureaucrats operating at the street level can promote policy change in public administration at the individual level. I demonstrate how street-level bureaucrats act as policy entrepreneurs in different contexts around the globe to promote policy change and analyze what they think of policy entrepreneurship and what they do about it in practice. For this purpose, I use multiple research methods: a survey, in-depth interviews, focus groups and textual analyses. I also offer recommendations to decision-makers to promote street-level policy entrepreneurship, highlighting the benefits of doing so. Lastly, I critically discuss the normative aspects of street-level policy entrepreneurship: ultimately, is it desirable?

Author : Franklin G. Mixon, Jr.
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030257675

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A Terrible Efficiency by Franklin G. Mixon, Jr. Pdf

This book provides numerous examples that apply the modern theory of bureaucracy developed in Breton and Wintrobe (1982 and 1986) to the Nazi Holocaust. More specifically, the book argues, as do Breton and Wintrobe (1986), that the subordinates in the Nazi bureaucracy were not “following orders” as they claimed during the war crimes trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere, but were instead exhibiting an entrepreneurial spirit in competing with one another in order to find the most efficient way of exacting the Final Solution. This involved engaging in a process of exchange with their superiors, wherein the subordinates offered the kinds of informal services that are not codified in formal contracts. In doing so, they were competing for the rewards, or informal payments not codified in formal contracts, that were conferred by those at the top of the bureaucracy. These came in the form of rapid promotion, perquisites (pecuniary and in-kind), and other awards. The types of exchanges described above are based on “trust,” not formal institutions.

Author : Ronald G. Corwin
Publisher : Elsevier Limited
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015013278133

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The Entrepreneurial Bureaucracy by Ronald G. Corwin Pdf

Author : Lawrence M. Miller
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780449905265

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Barbarians to Bureaucrats: Corporate Life Cycle Strategies by Lawrence M. Miller Pdf

"One day your sluggish company will taken to the sound of a beating drum and the sight of a competitor approaching at ramming speed. On deck will be a jut-jawed Barbarian....He will hardly blink as his target is ripped asunder, sending Aristocrats, Bureaucrats and their unfortunate shipmates to their corporate death....So goes Mr. Miller's tale, from which we can all profit." The Wall Street Journal Barbarians to Bureaucrats presents a brilliant new solution to a stubborn old business problem: how to halt a company's descent into wasteful, stifling bureaucracy. Lawrence M. Miller, a management consultant for such corporate giants as Xerox and 3M, argues that corporations, like civilizations, have a natural life cycle, and that by identifying the stage your company is in, and the leaders associated with it, you can avert decline and continue to thrive. Every company begins with the compelling new vision of a Prophet and the aggressive leadership of an iron-willed Barbarian, who implements the Prophet's ideas. New techniques and expansions are pushed through by the Builder and the Explorer, but the growth spawned by these managers can easily stagnate when the Administrator sacrifices innovation to order, and the Bureaucrat imposes tight control. And just as in civilizations, the rule of the Aristocrat, out of touch with those who do the real work, invites rebellion -- from employees, customers, and stockholders. It will take the Synergist, a business leader who balances creativity with order, to restore vitality and insure future growth. Executives from major corporations have already put the powerful insights of Barbarians to Bureaucrats into practice to regenerate their own companies. Now you can use this brilliant, lucid, and dazzlingly original book to put your company -- and your career -- back on track.

Author : Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000060984623

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Bureaucracy by Ludwig Von Mises Pdf

Originally published by Yale University Press in 1944, 'Bureaucracy' is a classic fundamental examination of the nature of bureaucracies and free markets in juxtaposition to various political systems. 'Bureaucracy' contrasts the two forms of economic management -- that of a free market economy and that of a bureaucracy. In the market economy entrepreneurs are driven to serve consumers by their desire to earn profits and to avoid losses. In a bureaucracy, the managers must comply with orders issued by the legislative body under which they operate; they may not spend without authorisation and they may not deviate from the path prescribed by law. Writing in an age of exuberant socialism, Ludwig von Mises here lucidly demonstrates how the efficiencies of private ownership and control of public good production ultimately trump the guesswork of publicly administered 'planning' through codes and 'officialdom'. Although Mises aptly critiques bureaucracy and expounds thoroughly upon the immense power of law-like codes of commissions and administrations, he does not condemn nor dismiss bureaucracy but rather frames its proper bounds within constitutional democratic governments.

Author : Mark Schneider,Paul Teske,Michael Mintrom
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400821570

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Public Entrepreneurs by Mark Schneider,Paul Teske,Michael Mintrom Pdf

Seizing opportunities, inventing new products, transforming markets--entrepreneurs are an important and well-documented part of the private sector landscape. Do they have counterparts in the public sphere? The authors argue that they do, and test their argument by focusing on agents of dynamic political change in suburbs across the United States, where much of the entrepreneurial activity in American politics occurs. The public entrepreneurs they identify are most often mayors, city managers, or individual citizens. These entrepreneurs develop innovative ideas and implement new service and tax arrangements where existing administrative practices and budgetary allocations prove inadequate to meet a range of problems, from economic development to the racial transition of neighborhoods. How do public entrepreneurs emerge? How much does the future of urban development depend on them? This book answers these questions, using data from over 1,000 local governments. The emergence of public entrepreneurs depends on a set of familiar cost-benefit calculations. Like private sector risk-takers, public entrepreneurs exploit opportunities emerging from imperfect markets for public goods, from collective-action problems that impede private solutions, and from situations where information is costly and the supply of services is uneven. The authors augment their quantitative analysis with ten case studies and show that bottom-up change driven by politicians, public managers, and other local agents obeys regular and predictable rules.

Author : Robert Smith
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800710580

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Entrepreneurship in Policing and Criminal Contexts by Robert Smith Pdf

Entrepreneurship in Policing and Criminal Contexts explores the contemporary and under researched themes of ‘entrepreneurial policing’ and ‘entrepreneurialism in criminal justice contexts’ which are emerging topics of both theoretical and practical interest in the current rapidly changing criminal justice environment.

Author : Yue Hou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108498159

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The Private Sector in Public Office by Yue Hou Pdf

Examines how the private sector in China manages to grow without secure property rights.

Author : Gary S. Lynn,Norman M. Lynn
Publisher : Irwin Professional Publishing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1557385211

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Breaking Through Bureaucracy by Gary S. Lynn,Norman M. Lynn Pdf

Offers employees advice on how to create and implement products and ideas within the company

Author : Peter Hupe
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781786437631

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Research Handbook on Street-Level Bureaucracy by Peter Hupe Pdf

When the objectives of public policy programmes have been formulated and decided upon, implementation seems just a matter of following instructions. However, it is underway to the realization of those objectives that public policies get their final substance and form. Crucial is what happens in and around the encounter between public officials and individual citizens at the street level of government bureaucracy. This Research Handbook addresses the state of the art while providing a systematic exploration of the theoretical and methodological issues apparent in the study of street-level bureaucracy and how to deal with them.

Author : Michael Mintrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108643436

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Policy Entrepreneurs and Dynamic Change by Michael Mintrom Pdf

Policy entrepreneurs are energetic actors who engage in collaborative efforts in and around government to promote policy innovations. Interest in policy entrepreneurs has grown over recent years. Increasingly, they are recognized as a unique class of political actors, who display common attributes, deploy common strategies, and can propel dynamic shifts in societal practices. This Element assesses the current state of knowledge on policy entrepreneurs, their actions, and their impacts. It explains how various global forces are creating new demand for policy entrepreneurship, and suggests directions for future research on policy entrepreneurs and their efforts to drive dynamic change.