Measuring Centrality: A Note on Hackman's Resource-Allocation Theory

Ashar, Hanna; Shapiro, Jonathan Z.

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“…Further, Hackman (1985) reported that environmental power (ability of a subunit to acquire external resources needed by the organization) and institutional power (relative influence of a sub-unit within the organization) together explained half of the variance in internal resource allocations. Ashar and Shapiro (1988) reported that the degree of sub-unit centrality had a significant effect on budget allocation particularly in periods of financial stress.…”

Section: H Y P O T H E S I Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Budget Allocation in a Uk University: Contrasting Periods of Resource Availability With Resource Scarcity*

Ezzamel¹,

Bourn²

1995

J Management Studies

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This paper seeks to identie variables which explain variations in budget allocations in a UK univirsity using a pooled database relating to two periods: one of resource availability, the other of resource scarcity. The results over both periods indicate, consistent with previous research, that a combination of workload and power proxies explains a very high proportion of budget allocations. However, analysis of the two periods revealed that: (i) incremental budgeting, which was observed to be in operation during the period of resource availability, was not supplanted by comprehensive budgeting during the period of resource scarcity, (ii) the impact of power proxies on budget allocation did not materially change in response to changes in levels of resource availability, and (iii) compared with internally based power, externally based power (as proxied) had neither a greater impact on resource allocation during the period of resource scarcity nor a lower impact during the period of resource availability as hypothesized.

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Section: H Y P O T H E S I Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Budget Allocation in a Uk University: Contrasting Periods of Resource Availability With Resource Scarcity*

Ezzamel¹,

Bourn²

1995

J Management Studies

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“…The role of power in organizational decision-making processes, particularly the budgeting process, has received substantial research attention in organizational management studies (Pondy and Birnberg 1969;Pondy 1970;Pfeffer 1977 and. The literature supports the view that power significantly affects the resource allocation process among departments/subunits in organizations particularly when resources are scarce and functionally important to the accomplishment of organizational goals (Pfeffer 1977;Pfeffer and Salancik 1978;Hackman 1985;Ashar and Shapiro 1988).…”

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confidence: 56%

The Influence of Electronic Transmission on Written Communication

Bowman

1992

American Journal of Business

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The table of contents is not in error; this is an editorial and not an autobiography. In fact, many readers will recognize the title of this editorial as a BITNET (Electronic mail) address, which is exactly what it is. I chose this as my title for several reasons. The first is to inform the readership of my BITNET address and to invite you to correspond with me through BITNET. In this world of budget cuts, telephone tag, and calls from environmentalists to use less paper, communication through BITNET offers an inexpensive, efficient, and environmentally benign alternative. So if you are an author who wants to know the status of your manuscript, a referee who wants to let me know that you will be a couple of weeks late with your review, or simply someone who would like to ask a question or make a comment about the Mid-American Journal of Business, please drop me a line at my BITNET address indicated in the title. I promise I will "bitnet" you back. Authors submitting manuscripts to the journal may want to include their BITNET address on the title page. This would allow me the opportunity to send you a quick message acknowledging my receipt of your manuscript. Electronic communication may not only be a way for communication about the Mid-American Journal of Business, it may someday be the medium through which we read the Mid-American Journal of Business. As a journal that attempts to provide leadership on communication between the academic and practitioner communities, we at the Journal hope to be at the forefront of not only the content of that communication but also the form of the communication. The day may come in the not-too-distant future when your MAJB is delivered to you by electronic mail rather than by your secretary. Manuscript authors will need to consider how such a change in medium would necessitate changes in writing style to account for differences in the perception of the message. MAJB readers would need to be cognizant of how their interpretations of what they are reading would change as they read in a new medium. Some insight into how the medium of the message affects its perception is provided to us by this issue's lead article by Joel Bowman. In his article, Professor Bowman reports on a survey of business p r o f e s s i o n a l s a n d a c a d e m i c s t h a t s h o w s h o w individuals react differently when communicating through different media. I believe that with technological advances, which make communicating through channels such as BITNET and voice mail more commonplace, we all need to be more aware of how our methods and perceptions of communication are affected by the various modes of communication. Bowman's article deserves a careful reading.

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“…In this study we investigate potential sources of inequitable distribution of resources in Iran, appealing to, and testing, three subsections of this theory: (1) political clientelism, which focuses on the political process and its interaction with the distribution of public goods (Heeger 1974;Weber 1978;Theobald 1982;Chehabi 1997;Franck and Rainer 2012;Kaiser 2007;Kimenyi 2006;Persico, Rodríguez-Pueblita, and Silverman 2011); (2) public choice theory of governance, which focuses on the self-interest of the state and citizen; and (3) core-periphery theory, which focuses on the unequal distribution of resources in large organizations and countries on the basis of the proximity to their core (Ashar and Shapiro 1988;Bakhtiyari et al 2006;Krugman 1991).…”

Section: Resource Distribution Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(3) core-periphery theory, which focuses on the unequal distribution of resources in large organizations and countries on the basis of the proximity to their core (Ashar and Shapiro 1988;Bakhtiyari et al 2006;Krugman 1991).…”

Section: Resource Distribution Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparing Theories of Resource Distribution: The Case of Iran

Ledford

Lynch

2019

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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This study addresses inequality through resource distribution in Iranian provinces with the use of new data collected and compiled from various sources using multilevel modeling. The models compare predictions of the various resource distribution theories using Iran’s 31 provincial budgets over 10 years. This resource distribution study provides a rare look at inequality in a country that, to a large degree, prohibits such examinations. The authors find that although ethnicity, religiosity, and allegiance to the regime have no influence on provincial budgets, geographic proximity to the central government is the strongest and only consistent predictor of resource allocation. The authors find that the greater the distance from the capital, the larger the respective per capita budget, net of other factors. This study contradicts both the centrality theory of state economic distribution and specific Iranian economic distribution theory and provides a new body of knowledge on state resource distribution.

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Measuring Centrality: A Note on Hackman's Resource-Allocation Theory

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Budget Allocation in a Uk University: Contrasting Periods of Resource Availability With Resource Scarcity*

Budget Allocation in a Uk University: Contrasting Periods of Resource Availability With Resource Scarcity*

The Influence of Electronic Transmission on Written Communication

Comparing Theories of Resource Distribution: The Case of Iran

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