Executive Behavior and Decision Making in Small U.S. Cities

French, P. Edward; Folz, David H.

doi:10.1177/0275074003259186

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“…International Review of Administrative Sciences 80 (3) behaviour of these groups in an Austrian local government context, which could provide more valid answers on this aspect (see French, 2005;French and Folz, 2004).…”

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The discretionary use of performance information by different local government actors – analysing and comparing the predictive power of three factor sets

Saliterer

Korać

2014

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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In recent years, empirical research on performance information use has gained momentum, but quantitative studies, which include different actor groups, are less widespread. Building on prior research within this field, our study offers insights into various antecedents for performance information use -including individual, performance-measurement-specific, and organizational context factors. By applying a quantitative survey of different actor groups at the local government level in Austria, we draw a picture of different user profiles for mayors with administrative authority, chief officials and chief financial officials. Hence, we are able to confirm findings from former studies with other national backgrounds and contribute to a better understanding regarding some new individual aspects influencing discretionary performance information use in a strategy formulation context. Points for practitionersIt is important to gather insights on the factors driving performance information use, as the latter is a crucial indicator for whether the introduction of performance measurement is worth the effort. Moreover, the results show that the performance information use intensity of mayors, chief officials and chief financial officials is driven by different factors. The study not only contributes to a better understanding of performance measurement utilization in general, but also points to the existence of different user profiles, therefore offering implications for the development of performance management implementation strategies.

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The discretionary use of performance information by different local government actors – analysing and comparing the predictive power of three factor sets

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Korać

2014

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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“…Newell and Ammons (1995) also distributed survey questionnaires similar to the 1987 research, and concluded that city managers allocated significantly more time to policy processes than mayors did. French and Folz (2004) descriptively studied the city manager's policy role with a survey in which 509 local officials in a national sample of small cities (population 2,500 to 24,500) participated. The 240 city managers who participated in the study answered that they would spend an average of 30.64 hours per week on policy activity, while 233 mayors answered that they would spend an average of 26.84 hours per week (French and Folz, 2004:56).…”

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The Policy Role of City Managers: An Empirical Analysis of Cooperative Relationship in Policy Process between City Managers and Elected officials

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International Review of Public Administration

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“…They acknowledge the possibility of closer interdependency at the local level but refer to APR and others to argue that “complementarity in relationships is a general phenomenon at the apex of all governments” (287). Since then several articles concerning local government elites have been published (Dunn and Legge 2002; French and Folz 2004, on the United States; Hansen and Ejersbo 2002, on Denmark; Jacobsen 2005, 2006a, 2006b, on Norway). More study of local civil service systems at large is necessary (cf.…”

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Political‐Administrative Relations: Impact of and Puzzles in Aberbach, Putnam, and Rockman, 1981

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Raadschelders

2008

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Political‐administrative relations became an issue once politicians and administrators came to be considered as distinct actors in the public realm. This happened in the late eighteenth century, and several authors since then explored the nature of this relationship in normative and/or juridical terms. But it took almost two centuries before it became an object of systematic empirical study in a comparative perspective: Aberbach, Putnam, and Rockman (APR 1981). The APR study was the first to use survey methods and to advance empirically based theory. In this article we discuss the intellectual attention for this topic since the early nineteenth century, APR's findings and impact and—given APR's influence upon methods—some intriguing problems with the framework that they developed. Finally we list some potential new avenues of research.

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Executive Behavior and Decision Making in Small U.S. Cities

Cited by 29 publications

References 29 publications

The discretionary use of performance information by different local government actors – analysing and comparing the predictive power of three factor sets

The discretionary use of performance information by different local government actors – analysing and comparing the predictive power of three factor sets

The Policy Role of City Managers: An Empirical Analysis of Cooperative Relationship in Policy Process between City Managers and Elected officials

Political‐Administrative Relations: Impact of and Puzzles in Aberbach, Putnam, and Rockman, 1981

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