International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior: Volume 13 Issue 4

Organizational learning: modeling an intervention in a foster care system

Mohan P. Pokharel, Larkin S. Dudley

This paper maps the organizational learning processes in a policy intervention program. A state department of social services designed an intervention for local agencies and…

How and when do structural deficits reveal themselves? The case of indiana

Robert S. Kravchuk, Samuel B. Stone

Do state governments have the ability to predict the onset, duration, and depth of structural fiscal crisis? The State of Indiana had a particularly difficult time recovering from…

Public administration and modernism revisited: a maquette of narrative construction

R. McGreggor Cawley

Twenty years ago, Hindy Schachter (1989) posed a question about the foundation we use to structure the Public Administration theory narrative. Would an approach based on an art…

Cross-national variation in the determinants of job satisfaction: how far do our results “travel”?

Andrew R. Timming

Using a large-scale dataset on working conditions across 31 European countries, this paper examines the nature and scope of crossnational variation in the determinants of job…

Technology adoption and organizational culture in public organizations

James Melitski, David Gavin, Joanne Gavin

Organization culture and technology adoption are two of the most critical issues facing organizations in a global society. Increasingly, organizations operate in uncertain…

Governance, law, religion and culture

Dana L. Haggard, Stephen Haggard

We proposed a model in which culture plays a dominant role, along with religion and legal origin, in determining the quality of governance in a country. We examined four…