Administration & Society

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This study examines how healthcare professionals and administrators experience and respond to volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) during digital transformation, integrating SWOT analysis to capture systemic strengths, weaknesses, ...

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Human neurodiversity matters. Neurodivergence and neurodiversity are fundamental characteristics of the (human) population. The essential nature of this diversity means that the quality of government and governance is unavoidably affected by approaches ...

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This article addresses a research gap in conceptualizing ecosystem approaches to social entrepreneurship development and scaling social innovation. Towards that end, we performed analyses on 268 social startup projects in Hong Kong, examining target ...

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This article examines whether the level of environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure in Andalusian municipal-owned enterprises varies by two attributes: industry and the local government that owns the company. To do this, the authors conduct a ...

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This bibliometric study maps 52 years of scholarship on “wicked problems,” tracing the field’s evolution from Rittel and Webber’s foundational framing to contemporary debates on super-wicked problems, clumsy solutions, and adaptive governance. We identify ...

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This essay explores administrative evil by reconsidering it through Weber’s ideal-type of bureaucracy and Arendt’s concerns over the bureaucratization of social life. It considers how modern bureaucracy is the structural condition Arendt identified as the ...

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Government labor unions frequently secure wage premiums for their members, leading many to assume that higher unionization increases aggregate payroll spending and, by extension, the overall cost of government. Because wages make up a large share of state ...