Process Management as a Contagious Idea: A Contribution to Røvik's Virus-Inspired Theory

‘Travelling ideas’ denotes the fact that virtually identical management ideas crop up more or less simultaneously in similar organizations. Røvik, who recently launched his ‘virus-inspired theory’ approach, seeks to pinpoint the possibility that the encounter between idea and practice may be lasting, ideas may affect practice, and leaders in organisations may play a more active role than the one often depicted in management fashion theory. This article is a contribution to his virus-inspired theory. It focuses on processes in their pragmatic form, as value-creating flows in organisations. We have studied Process Management (PM) as an idea, and how it has penetrated and flourished in the Swedish Customs Service. We argue that the empirical test in this article supports Røvik's belief that a virus-inspired theory gives a richer picture than the fashion theory. Through our analysis we show that four of our six hypotheses, derived from the virus-inspired theory, are strengthened by the empirical story from the Customs Service.     

City Management in the United States and Norway: A Comparative Analysis of Professional Orientations

This analysis examines the effects of political culture on the nature and practice of professional local government management by comparing the structures, responsibilities, and relationships of city administrative executives in the democratic countries of the United States and Norway. The findings suggest that, despite fundamental differences in societal institutions and settings, American and Norwegian city managers serve similar roles in their respective local government organizations. However, the notable variations in the processes of municipal management identified between the two nations appear to reflect the contextual influence of divergent political foundations on the operational environment of professional public administrators.     

Post-NPM Reforms or Administrative Hybridization in the French Health Care System?

New public management (NPM) provides an opportunity to analyze a reform trajectory that is influenced by country-specific institutional and social traditions. France adopted its own version of NPM, embracing some of its “traditional” elements such as quasi-markets and performance evaluation and rejecting others. NPM reforms in France pursued a re-centralization agenda rather than a disaggregation of public agencies. Outcomes were below expectations in core areas such as citizen participation and physician professional satisfaction. Subsequent health reforms indicate convergence toward a hybrid system rather than toward a post-NPM paradigm.     

How Government and Community Nonprofit Collaboration and Non-Collaboration Affects Public Sector Outcomes

This four state foster care study seeks to understand what practices state public managers perform with regards to community nonprofits that contributes to effectiveness in producing better public sector outcomes. The study produced key player field research data on the conditions under which community nonprofits produce better public sector outcomes.

This article offers reasons as to why some effective community nonprofits were able to achieve collaboration with the public sector, while others were not, despite their effectiveness. Effective public managers in the area of foster care administration permit, and at times recruit, community nonprofits to have an impact on their foster care domain, while ineffective public managers never reach out to community nonprofits as partners or further yet, block nonprofits from access.     

文化治理模式视阈下农村社会管理创新模式研析——基于广西的实证研究

本文采取扎根研究的方法,以广西壮族自治区十四个地市的文化治理实践为研究对象,总结了新时期农村社会管理创新之文化治理模式,即：加强农村基层党员培训,破解＂三个难题＂;以公共文化服务创新为抓手,实施文化惠民工程;以高度的文化自觉和文化自信,积极推进文化传承与创新。     

智能型物证管理系统的应用

加强物证保管工作,是推进执法规范化建设的迫切需要,是适应法制建设的迫切需要,是提高我国公安机关执法办案质量的迫切需求。本文针对当前国内刑事科学技术工作中物证保管存在的问题,研究并建立了智能型物证管理系统,对加强新时期刑事科学技术工作具有指导意义。     

中国民事检察监督的法理思考——以评析理念变迁为基点

中国民事检察监督制度从建立之初至今,曲折发展,其中彰显了民事检察监督理念的深度变迁.《民事诉讼法》修改后,新、旧理念冲突和调和下形成的修法内容使民事检察监督陷入形式上强化而实质上弱化的困境,应当树立权力制约理念,强化权利保障理念,解决民事检察监督中不同理念的冲突,如此才能从根本上解决阻碍民事检察监督的结构性问题,推进民事检察监督沿着正确的轨道不断完善,健康发展.     

浅谈食品安全风险评估机构独立运行的必要性

目前,我国风险评估机构属行政序列,其评估工作不能独立、科学的运行,导致食品安全风险预警职能无法发挥,食品安全事故频发。食品安全风险评估机构有独立运行的必要性,为实现食品安全风险评估机构独立运行,应列入人大序列进行理论探讨,以求为实践提供借鉴。     

论侦查决策之概念

侦查决策,即侦查中的决策活动。“决策”是“侦查决策”的种概念,“侦查决策”是“决策”的属概念。侦查决策是侦查主体在侦查活动中,在一定的客观条件下为达到一定的目的,为确定侦查的行动目标和行动方法而进行的一系列筹划、优选和决断活动。侦查决策这一概念的引入,为我们在侦查决策理论学术研究中开辟了一条深入研究侦查活动中的决策活动的道路,也开辟了一条从决策这一独特角度深入研究整个侦查活动过程的道路。     

循证矫正的价值与推进方案研究

循证矫正是一种矫正罪犯的新理念、新方法,当下中国引入这一理念和方法,必须充分理解“循”与“证”的内涵,正确认识循证矫正在我国罪犯矫正领域应用的实践价值,科学设计我国循证矫正实践推进的可行性方案.