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Risk permeates decision making because choice outcomes are often uncertain. When basing decisions on prior experience, previous research suggests that the prospects of gain and loss differentially produce subjective inflation and deflation of risk-as
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https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/x3tp9
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/x3tp9
Autor:
Germà Bel, Thomas Elston
Resilient organizations maintain functioning during times of unexpected adversity. Collaboration between organizations may enhance resilience by enabling scarce information, resources and capabilities to be leveraged across partners, although it may
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http://hdl.handle.net/2445/200164
http://hdl.handle.net/2445/200164
Autor:
Ruth Dixon, Thomas Elston
Publikováno v:
Public Administration. 98:746-767
English councils have long aspired to be “self‐sufficient,” providing services within single jurisdictions with limited inter‐local collaboration. However, by 2017 almost all local councils (97%) participated in one or more frontline or back
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https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12649
https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12649
Autor:
Yuxi Zhang, Thomas Elston
Publikováno v:
Parliamentary Affairs.
The Public Accounts Committee is the oldest and, reputedly, most influential oversight committee in the British parliament. Since 2012, the government has published an unprecedented volume of data explaining its actions in response to the PAC’s inq
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https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsab068
https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsab068
Autor:
Germà Bel, Thomas Elston
Publikováno v:
Dipòsit Digital de la UB
Universidad de Barcelona
Universidad de Barcelona
Organizations develop collaborative relationships in order to manage external interdependencies that are consequential for performance. Econometric research has tested whether such collaboration brings improved performance among public service provid
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http://hdl.handle.net/2445/187584
http://hdl.handle.net/2445/187584
Autor:
Thomas Elston
Publikováno v:
Local Government Studies. 45:599-602
Goal ambiguity – the imprecision and contradiction often found in the objectives that organisations pursue – is a seemingly inescapable aspect of public service in democratic societies. Generally a...
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https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2019.1620519
https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2019.1620519
Autor:
Thomas Elston
Why do top-down reforms to public services so often over-promise and under-deliver? Using five concepts from psychology, economics and organisational sociology, Thomas Elston addresses this pressing question of good governance. Rather than focusing o
Autor:
Thomas Elston, Gwyn Bevan
Allocating scarce resources to meet policy objectives incurs opportunity costs. A vital element of ‘speaking truth to power’ thus involves officials advising ministers on the opportunity costs of high-risk ‘pet projects’. In democracies, the
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https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:81047b37-5425-42a9-9d77-e3de3c93313b
https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:81047b37-5425-42a9-9d77-e3de3c93313b
Autor:
Thomas Elston, Muiris MacCarthaigh
Publikováno v:
Public Money & Management. 36:349-356
Shared services are a popular reform for governments under financial pressure. The hope is to reduce overheads and increase efficiency by providing support services like HR, finance and procurement once to multiple agencies. The authors identify five
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https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2016.1194081
https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2016.1194081
Autor:
Thomas Elston
Publikováno v:
Governance. 30:85-104
Public service bargains (PSBs) define rewards, competencies and loyalties for civil servants. They involve both explicit and tacit agreements with politicians. The article suggests that these two kinds of bargain may not be closely coordinated with o
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https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12191
https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12191