The Political Economy of Bureaucracy |
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Perspectives on Organisations | 14 |
The Economists Perspective | 46 |
Decision Making Models | 86 |
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accountability activities administrative agency allocative efficiency alternative analysis approach argued assumed behaviour budget budgetary bureau bureaucrats Burns and Stalker Chapter choice competition complex concept conflict constraints contingency theory costs Cyert decentralised decision maker decision making process discussion distribution economic economists empirical environment example exist Expenditure Committee factors firm function goals Hawthorne studies human relations implementation process incentives incremental individual industrial inefficiency interests issues large number limits managerial marginal marginal costs marginalist market failure means Moreover Niskanen non-market objectives organisation structure organisation theory organisation's outcome output Parliament perfect competition performance political economy preferences problem production profit maximisation public expenditure public sector quangos questions rationality model recognised relationships resource allocation role rules satisficing scientific management Simon social specialist specific theorists Tullock UK civil service unbounded rationality uncertainty Whilst Wildavsky Williamson X-efficiency X-inefficiency