IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rrpaxx/v5y2000i1p1-12.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Where the State of the Art Meets the Art of the State: Traditional Public-Bureaucracy Controls in the Information Age

Author

Listed:
  • Christopher Hood

Abstract

This paper discusses how the leading technologies associated with the ‘information society’ affect four traditional methods of control over bureaucracy. The four traditional controls, identified from grid-group cultural theory, are oversight, mutuality, competition and contrived randomness. It is assumed that such control systems are central to the shaping of behaviour, accountability and expectations in government organizations. The argument is that, while the technologies of the information society alter the operation of public organizations in a number of fundamental ways, these four basic approaches to control do not change or at least tend to reappear in new guises. Each of the four basic control approaches is capable of being supported by the technologies of the information age, though in the case of contrived randomness that effect may be largely unintentional. The same can be argued to apply to the six pairwise hybrid types of control that can be drawn from the four basic types. It seems likely that culture is the critical ‘switch’ that determines how technologies are used and the organizational impact of their use.

Suggested Citation

  • Christopher Hood, 2000. "Where the State of the Art Meets the Art of the State: Traditional Public-Bureaucracy Controls in the Information Age," International Review of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(1), pages 1-12, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rrpaxx:v:5:y:2000:i:1:p:1-12
    DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2000.10804939
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/12294659.2000.10804939
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/12294659.2000.10804939?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Venkiteswaran N, 1997. "Ethics, Values and Corporate Governance," IIMA Working Papers WP1997-08-01_01459, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Research and Publication Department.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Mike Burkart & Konrad Raff, 2015. "Performance Pay, CEO Dismissal, and the Dual Role of Takeovers," Review of Finance, European Finance Association, vol. 19(4), pages 1383-1414.
    2. Wang, Lei & Zhou, Fangzhao & An, Yunbi, 2017. "Determinants of control structure choice between entrepreneurs and investors in venture capital-backed startups," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 215-225.
    3. Souad Chaieb, 2021. "The Impact of Cash Holding on Debt Cost," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 11(6), pages 75-93.
    4. Bijman, W.J.J. & Hendrikse, G.W.J. & van Oijen, A.A.C.J., 2012. "Accommodating Two Worlds in One Organization: Changing Board Models in Agricultural Cooperatives," ERIM Report Series Research in Management ERS-2012-015-ORG, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
    5. Shin, Dongsoo, 2015. "Incentives and management styles," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 40(C), pages 22-31.
    6. Chou, Julia & Ng, Lilian & Wang, Qinghai, 2011. "Are better governed funds better monitors?," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 17(5), pages 1254-1271.
    7. Cheng, Maoyong & Geng, Hongyan & Zhang, Junrui, 2016. "Chinese commercial banks: Benefits from foreign strategic investors?," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 40(PA), pages 147-172.
    8. Christian Keuschnigg & Evelyn Ribi, 2013. "Profit taxes and financing constraints," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 20(5), pages 808-826, October.
    9. Matt Andrews & Roger Hay & Jerrett Myers, 2010. "Governance Indicators Can Make Sense: Under-five Mortality Rates are an Example," CID Working Papers 207, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
    10. Carden, Robert & Leach, Sonia E. & Smith, Jeffrey S., 2008. "A market reaction to DOD contract delay -- Does the market reward poor performance," Review of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 17(1), pages 33-45.
    11. Jo, Hoje & Song, Moon H. & Tsang, Albert, 2016. "Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder governance around the world," Global Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 29(C), pages 42-69.
    12. Besley, Timothy & Prat, Andrea, 2003. "Pension fund governance and the choice between defined benefit and defined contribution plans," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 24853, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    13. L.J. Basson & Sune Ferreira-Schenk & Zandri Dickason-Koekemoer, 2022. "Fractal Dimension Option Hedging Strategy Implementation During Turbulent Market Conditions in Developing and Developed Countries," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 12(2), pages 84-95, March.
    14. Chan, Chia-Chung & Lin, Bing-Huei & Chang, Yung-Ho & Liao, Wei-Chen, 2013. "Does bank relationship matter for corporate risk-taking? Evidence from listed firms in Taiwan," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 26(C), pages 323-338.
    15. Goergen, Marc & Manjon, Miguel C. & Renneboog, Luc, 2008. "Recent developments in German corporate governance," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 28(3), pages 175-193, September.
    16. Yves Fassin, 2012. "Stakeholder Management, Reciprocity and Stakeholder Responsibility," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 109(1), pages 83-96, August.
    17. Kotz Hans-Helmut & Schmidt Reinhard H., 2016. "Corporate Governance of Banks – A German Alternative to the Standard Model," Zeitschrift für Bankrecht und Bankwirtschaft (ZBB) / Journal of Banking Law and Banking (JBB), RWS Verlag, vol. 28(6), pages 427-444, December.
    18. repec:lic:licosd:16205 is not listed on IDEAS
    19. Jirjahn, Uwe, 2003. "Betriebsräte, Tarifverträge und betriebliches Lohnniveau (Works councils, wage agreements and the company wage level)," Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 36(4), pages 649-660.
    20. Spagnolo, Giancarlo, 1998. "Debt as a (Credible) Collusive Device, or: "Everybody Happy but the Consumer"," SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 243, Stockholm School of Economics, revised 01 Aug 2004.
    21. Sabbar Fedaa Abd Almajid & Al-Dulaimi Zaid Yaseen Saud & Alalawi Talib Ghadhban Yaseen & Rashid Arshed Makki, 2018. "The importance of adopting principles of corporate governance for the quality of internal audit," Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence, Sciendo, vol. 12(1), pages 1089-1101, May.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rrpaxx:v:5:y:2000:i:1:p:1-12. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RRPA20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.