Not with a bang, but a whimper - Explaining organizational failures Academic Article

abstract

• This article uses an ideal stereotypical approach to examine the process of the organizational failures. Private sector stereotypes of government organizations are used to generate hypotheses about when public organizations fail. The hypotheses are tested using 1,000 school districts in Texas. In direct contrast to the hypotheses, the extent of bureaucracy is not related to failures. The only consistent results are that failures are linked to multiple goals and more difficult tasks.

authors

• Meier, Kenneth

published proceedings

• ADMINISTRATION & SOCIETY

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Meier, K. J., & Bohte, J.

citation count

• 24

complete list of authors

• Meier, KJ||Bohte, J

publication date

• March 2003

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Administration and Society  Journal

keywords

• Education Policy
• Organizational Failure
• Path Dependence
• Schools

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0095399702250351

start page

• 104

end page

• 121

volume

• 35

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095399702250351