Titlebook: Governance of Public Sector Organizations; Proliferation, Auton Per L?greid (Professor),Koen Verhoest (Associate P Book 2010 Palgrave Macmi

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Henning Kreis,Raimund Wildner,Alfred Ku?h and Olsen 1996, 1994, 1989), then an approach focused on instrumental rationality mainly embedded in a logic of consequences perspective (for an overview of different streams in organization theory for the study of the public sector, see Christensen . 2007).

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The Long-run Performance of Decentralized Agencies in Québecelivery and efficiency (Pollitt & Talbot 2004; Verhoest . 2004a). More specifically, Québec has created agencies that are under an integrated RBM programme including agency performance agreements, strategic plans, performance reports and responsibility to parliamentarians along with RBM integration in civil servants performance evaluations.

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Performance of Public Sector Organizations: Do Managerial Tools Matter?tors remain very unclear. Besides, not much is known about the influence of specific . on performance of public sector organizations. Finally, studies in this area mainly focus on governments as a whole rather than on individual public sector organizations.

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Specialization and Fragmentation in Regulatory Regimestiple sectors (Christensen and L?greid 2006). Secondly, authority has been dispersed from central states towards multiple levels of government. National states delegated authority to subnational (e.g. regions) and supranational levels. These new organizations have not entirely replaced the old ones, which led to an accumulation of institutions.

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Comparing Impacts of Modes of Governancenstitutional changes is difficult to assess (Walsh 1995). Furthermore, claims that contracting out leads to greater efficiency have been shown to be invalid (Boyne 1998). Moreover, in most studies transaction costs remain undiscussed, while they appear to be assuming an increasingly important part in the debate (Hodge 2000).

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