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Organizational adaptation to cross-cutting policy objectives KU Leuven
The institutional complexity inherent to the governmental apparatus and the agencification trend of recent decades make reaching a coordinated response to new policy demands a challenge for public organizations. In this thesis cross-cutting policy objectives are seen as new policy demands for organizations to which they can comply or not. This compliance process is called organizational adaptation. How to strengthen and explain organizational ...
Structural reform histories and perceptions of organizational autonomy: Do senior managers perceive less strategic policy autonomy when faced with frequent and intense restructuring? KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Through recurrent structural reform programmes governments are on a quest to design public organizations that will stand the test of their environment. One of the approaches to uncertain or sensitive issues has been to create various forms of (semi-)autonomous organizations with substantial strategic discretion. However, while governments repeatedly experiment with designs, one might simultaneously expect that ...
Open innovation: Organizational practices and policy implications Universiteit Hasselt
Over the last decade, open innovation has impacted and enhanced firms’ collaboration strategies and public policy programs. This new ‘paradigm shift’ emerged from businesses’ needs to recover from the dot-com crash and to adapt to changing circumstances in a global recession. In this new wave of innovation, companies refocused on organic growth and on their customers and consumer markets to enrich their business units and new corporate venturing ...
Quality assurance in Croatia and Serbia : analysis of changes of policy and internal organizational practices Universiteit Gent
Organizational adaptation to cross-cutting policy objectives Universiteit Antwerpen
Governance and policy. Organizational factors influencing the international sporting success in Judo Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Judo NGBs should strive to be effective and efficient, because they need to respond to the pressures of the competitive environment given that the expectations and interests of all involved in their achievement of results (athletes, clubs, funded agencies, public opinion, etc.).
Traditionally, are used to measure success in sport the medals table: a performance indicator that is easy to understand although it has limitations making a ...
Traditionally, are used to measure success in sport the medals table: a performance indicator that is easy to understand although it has limitations making a ...
How does Europe matter for higher education change?: a study about changes of policy and organization in higher education Universiteit Gent
This study presents an analysis of the role of European policy initiatives (e.g. the Bologna Process) in policy change and organizational adaptation in higher education in the form of three scientific articles and an extended abstract. The empirical setting is comprised of: (a) three countries of the former Yugoslavia (Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia) and (b) two faculties that are part of flagship universities in these countries (the University of ...
Why public organizations contribute to crosscutting policy programs Universiteit Antwerpen
The extent to which public organizations contribute to crosscutting policy programs is a question of organizational commitment, resource allocation, and monitoring. In this paper, we triangulate survey and interview data to study the explanatory power of organizational factors to understand the extent of organizational adaptation. In line with the hypotheses, the organizational task, culture, and the portfolio minister's level of control seem to ...
Followers’ reactions to self-serving leaders: the influence of the organization’s budget policy KU Leuven
Purpose – Even though leaders often are seen as responsible guides, they sometimes behave in a self-serving way, for example, by spending the company’s budget on their own, frivolous needs. In this study, the authors explore an aspect of such behavior: the authors examine how an organizational budget policy makes such spending more legitimate in the eyes of followers. Specifically, the authors examine when followers will react to a leader’s ...