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A State of Agents? Sharpening the Debate and Evidence over the Extent and Imp…
We address focal questions about the growth of "third-party" government and new forms or tools of governance and the extent and impact of their increasing use to implement public policy and the "public will." Our goal is to sharpen this discussion by bringing empirical evidence to bear on key arguments and assertions in the debate. In particular, along with the other contributors to this journa…
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- Volume 20, Supplement 1. January 2010. Pp. i3-i19
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Relational Contracting and Network Management
Our argument connects the management of relational contracts with the management of policy networks. Thinking about bilateral, horizontal extensions of governmental authority in a state of agents can be enhanced, we claim, because of the rich offerings of relational contracting theory. We review key results from economic theories of relational contracting, provide public sector examples, and pr…
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- Volume 20, Supplement 1. January 2010. Pp. i21-i40
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Contracting for Complex Products
A fundamental source of contracting failure is product uncertainty. When the product's cost, quality, and quantity cannot be easily defined, buyers and sellers are unable to clearly and completely define exchange terms. The risk is that the buyer is the only purchaser of this "complex product," and once the contract is let, the vendor is the only supplier. The consequence is a collective action…
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- Volume 20, Supplement 1, January 2010. Pp. i41-i58
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Third-Party Governance under No Child Left Behind: Accountability and Perform…
This study examines public management challenges faced by educational agencies that are required to set up a market for providing choice in supplemental educational services (SES) for students in underperforming schools and to hold nongovernmental providers accountable for their performance in increasing student achievement. The operations and performance of SES providers in a large urban schoo…
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- Volume 20, Supplement 1, January 2010. Pp. i59-i8
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The Role of Private Agents in Affordable Housing Policy
This article analyzes the consequences of our increasing reliance on private agents in the formulation and implementation of affordable housing policy. We describe the policies and processes by which affordable housing decisions are made in the United States—including how many and what kind of these units are built and where. Then, we empirically explore the impacts of different governance arra…
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- Volume 20, Supplement 1, January 2010. Pp. i81-i99
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Governance in Motion: Service Provision and Child Welfare Outcomes in a Perfo…
Examining the linkage between service provision and client outcomes is important in performance-based human service environments. Since most performance initiatives reward agencies for improving client outcomes rather than providing specific services, managers may have incentives to streamline workers’ efforts and reduce resources devoted to services considered nonessential. This article uses d…
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- Volume 20, Supplement 1, January 2010. Pp. i101-i1
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Governance and Collaboration: An Evolutionary Study of Two Mental Health Netw…
This article presents a comparative analysis of the evolution of two community mental health networks that both have similar contracts from the State of Arizona. One of the networks is governed by a for-profit firm that buys needed services from a network of largely nonprofit agencies. The other network is governed by a community-based nonprofit that contracts with four separate nonprofit agenc…
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- Volume 20, Supplement 1, January 2010. Pp. i125-i1
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Accountable Agents: Federal Performance Measurement and Third-Party Government
Ordinarily research articles on public sector third-party governance, or the state of agents, turn to the subject of accountability in their conclusions. Rather than leaving it to the conclusions, this article takes up the subject of public sector third-party governance as a problem of accountability. To consider accountability, we studied contemporary performance measurement practices in the f…
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- Volume 20, Supplement 1, January 2010. Pp. i143-i1
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The managerial foundations of knowledge assets dynamics
The ability of an organisation to harness knowledge assets dynamics lies at the core of organisational value creation capacity. A key challenge both for researchers and for practitioners is to understand how to measure and manage knowledge assets dynamics. In this paper the managerial foundations of knowledge assets dynamics are introduced. For measuring and managing knowledge assets dynamics w…
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- Vol. 7, No. 4. December 2009. pp. 290–299
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Is there something wrong with intellectual capital management models?
During the recent years the intellectual capital (IC) literature has produced tens of models to support the various IC management (ICM) activities, such as identification, measurement, valuation, acquisition and reporting IC. However, the practice of applying these models seems to be a fairly new issue in many organisations. The gap between research and practice (i.e. not many organisations see…
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- Vol. 7, No. 4. December 2009. pp. 300–307
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Intellectual capital management in practice: assessment of implementation and…
In recent decades, a huge variety of models for managing intellectual capital (IC) have been generated. However, understanding how IC management (ICM) models operate in practice and the issues that may be encountered when they are implemented remain a challenging issue. This is because there seems to be a significant gap between the enthusiastic development of ICM models in theory and the appli…
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- Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2009.pp. 308–316
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A social network scorecard to monitor knowledge flows across communication media
This paper describes the application of a scorecard, based on social network analysis, to monitor the evolution of knowledge flows. This scorecard helps organizations to identify new ways to optimize knowledge flows by combining communication media that match their working environments. Three case studies were conducted: one within an Italian Research Centre, and two within U.S.-based Research …
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- Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2009. pp. 317–328
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Measuring knowledge creation in virtual teams through the social network anal…
The current literature regarding virtual teams (VTs) lacks outcomes related to intellectual capital (IC) and knowledge management (KM). Moreover, e-collaboration and VTs need the necessary metrics to assess the real benefits that KM derives from the use of new e-collaboration technologies. There is also scarce evaluation of the cause–effect linkage between a VT structural configuration and its …
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- Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2009. pp. 329–338
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How knowledge assets lead to a sustainable competitive advantage: are organiz…
Even though knowledge assets have been widely recognized as the principal drivers of firm's competitive advantage, few are the frameworks that have explained how these strategic assets are transformed into value and how the value creation process occurs. Also there is a confusing terminology in the literature surrounding many concepts explaining the dynamics of value creation. By conducting a S…
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- Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2009. pp. 339–355
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An intellectual capital perspective of human resource strategies and practices
Previous research has investigated the relationships between intellectual capital (IC) and human resource management (HRM). Others have described the link between IC and strategic initiatives in an organization including strategic human resource management (SHRM). However, little systematic work has been done to develop a holistic overview of connections between the three concepts. Through an a…
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- Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2009.pp. 356–364
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How do Miles and Snow's strategic types differ in their knowledge assets? Evi…
This paper takes a knowledge-based view of firms and discusses the importance of linking organizational knowledge assets into corporate strategy. In order to conceptualize knowledge assets, the paper adopts the intellectual capital (IC) framework, which distinguishes three IC components: human, structural and relational capital. As regards business strategy, the paper adopts Miles and Snow's mo…
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- Vol. 7, NO. 4, December 2009.pp. 377–386
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The effect of intellectual capital attributes on organizational performance. …
In this study, we propose to model how intellectual capital (IC) attributes affect the performance of organizations operating in the performing arts sector, more specifically opera companies. In particular, the aim of this paper is twofold in that it seeks: (1) to analyze the role IC plays in performing arts organizations; and (2) to propose research hypotheses that suggest how IC affects the p…
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- Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2009. pp. 365–376
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Organisational capacity to absorb external R&D: industrial differences in ass…
Being competitive entails continuously performing product and process innovations. The acquisition of externally generated R&D is therefore increasingly important. However, firms have different needs when performing this process. The paper presents 26 drivers of intellectual capital (IC) as crucial for the absorption of externally generated R&D. Additionally we identify divergences in a range o…
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- Vol. 8, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 102–111
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Creating the KM mindset: why is it so difficult?
The knowledge management (KM) mindset is a precursor to a knowledge-sharing culture. It is often assumed that developing a KM mindset is somewhat easier than developing a knowledge-sharing culture in an organization. However, the task is daunting for knowledge managers. To explore and understand the issue, we conducted research using focus group methodology that identified the key challenges th…
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- Vol. 8, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 112–120
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Making memories available: a framework for preserving rural heritage through …
While most of the research in Knowledge Management (KM) has focused on business communities, there is a breadth of potential applications of KM theory and practice to wider society. This paper explores the potential of KM for rural communities, specifically for those that want to preserve their social history and collective memories (what we call heritage) to enrich the lives of others. In KM t…
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- Vol. 8, No. 2, June 2010. pp. 121–134
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