Red Tape: A Review and Assessment of Concepts and Measures

Pandey, Sanjay K.; Scott, Patrick G.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jpart.a003547

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“…In line with public administration research [7][8][9], we suggest that firm-level regulation costs are determined by the institutional setting: the stock of existing regulations, its quality and its predictability. As convincingly argued in the business literature, managers of private firms form cognitive maps based on perceived information and events, which subsequently impact on a firm's strategic decisions.…”

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confidence: 54%

“…Older companies will have learned how to deal with bureaucratic procedures. They are therefore less likely to bear the negative effects of regulation and may have developed methods and procedures to efficiently deal with regulation [9]. The age of the company is measured by an ordinal measure ranging from 1 to 3, with 1 indicating firms that are less than two years old, 2 indicating firms between two and five years old, and 3 firms older than five years old.…”

Section: Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Institutions and the Regulation of Business—An International Firm-Level Study of Regulatory Compliance Costs

Jong¹,

Kloeze²

2013

AJIBM

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Prior work has established the negative effects of many regulations on business and policy.These negative effects have been a key driver for many of the so-called better regulation programmes. Despite all efforts, however, deregulation programmes have had inconclusive results and their success remains the subject of ongoing debate. We suggest that the public policy efforts have largely overlooked a business perspective of regulation and its institutional determinants. We argue that the institutional determinants of regulation include the regulation stock, the quality of regulation and the predictability of regulation application. This study is among the first to examine the impact of these institutional determinants on regulatory compliance costs for firms using a unique dataset from companies in OECD countries. Our results convincingly support our approach to the study of regulation.

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Institutions and the Regulation of Business—An International Firm-Level Study of Regulatory Compliance Costs

Jong¹,

Kloeze²

2013

AJIBM

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“…(Rainey 1983;Pandey and Scott 2002)  Personnel rules make it hard to remove poor performers from the organization.  Personnel rules on promotion make it hard for a good employee to move up faster than a poor one.…”

Section: Appendix A: Variable Measurementmentioning

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Working Within Constraints: Can Transformational Leaders Alter the Experience of Red Tape?

Moynihan

Wright

Pandey

2012

International Public Management Journal

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Can leadership, an understudied variable in red tape research, create conditions that mitigate how followers experience red tape? To answer this question we employ data from a survey of agency heads in U.S. city government, asking them about the transformational leadership qualities of their City Manager, and estimating how this is associated with the organizational conditions followers experience, and in turn, red tape. We hypothesize that transformational leadership alters perceptions of red tape through its influence on goal clarity, political support, and communication. Results from a structural equation model provide empirical evidence consistent with our theory. We also find that respondents with public administration training and those who work in control agencies reported themselves less likely to experience red tape.3 Leadership: A Missing Variable in Red Tape StudiesThe emerging empirical literature on red tape research primarily draws upon Bozeman's (2000, 12) definition of red tape as "rules, regulations, and procedures that remain in force and entail a compliance burden, but do not advance the legitimate purposes the rules were intended to serve." Growing evidence suggests that the perceptions and effects of red tape may be subjectdependent and not consistent among employees within the same organization (

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“…All these questionnaire items were rated on a 5-point Likert scale. Human resources red tape was measured by a summative index of the following items (Rainey 1983;Pandey and Scott 2002):…”

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“…Developments on conceptualizing and measuring red tape (e.g. Bozeman 1993;Pandey and Scott 2002) have had little direct influence on the thinking of reformers who seek to cut red tape (Gore 1993;Osborne and Gaebler 1992), or even the academic discussion of these reforms (e.g. Ingraham et al 1997;Kettl and DiIulio 1995).…”

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Bureaucratic Red Tape and Organizational Performance: Testing the Moderating Role of Culture and Political Support

Pandey

Moynihan

2005

SSRN Journal

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Red Tape: A Review and Assessment of Concepts and Measures

Cited by 206 publications

References 16 publications

Institutions and the Regulation of Business—An International Firm-Level Study of Regulatory Compliance Costs

Institutions and the Regulation of Business—An International Firm-Level Study of Regulatory Compliance Costs

Working Within Constraints: Can Transformational Leaders Alter the Experience of Red Tape?

Bureaucratic Red Tape and Organizational Performance: Testing the Moderating Role of Culture and Political Support

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