International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior: Volume 19 Issue 3

Decentralization: Operationalization and measurement model

Decentralization has been a continual focus of attention of both scholars and practitioners for more than half a century. Even though there is a general agreement on what…

Influence of organizational context and followerʼs deposition on the effectiveness of transformational leadership

Past research on transformational leadership in organizations has neglected the organizational context in which such leadership is embedded, and the significance of the…

Symposium introduction

Symposium introduction

Mark bevirʼs a theory of governance from the vantage of political philosophy

This paper offers a critical commentary on Mark Bevirʼs recent book A Theory of Governance from the perspective of normative political philosophy. It explores three ways in which…

Neoliberalism and the entrepreneurial subject: Tracking bevirʼs decentered theory of governance

Governance is central to our current understanding of public administration and policy. Mark Bevirʼs work provides governance studies solid epistemological grounding through a…

Narratives of participatory governance: Social science and democracy in mark bevirʼs a theory of governance

Mark Bevirʼs A Theory of Governance proposes a Copernican revolution in the way we understand the role of social science in public administration. Conventional accounts assign…

A reply to critics

This paper is a response to Gary Marshall, Colin Macleod, and Amit Ronʼs careful discussions of my book, A Theory of Governance. The word “governance” is used in two contexts that…