the term paradigm has become a central issue in philosophy of science. increasing attention to paradigm in public administration, as a branch of social science, is also highlighted. this paper attempts to analysis seven paradigms in public administration research and to study ontological, epistemological, methodological, rhetorical and axiological assumptions of the each paradigm. finally, we b...

Author(s): Kankaanpää, Jari; Oulasvirta, Lasse; Wacker, Jani Title: Steering and Monitoring Model of State-Owned Enterprises Year: 2014 Journal Title: International Journal of Public Administration Vol and number: 37 : 7 Pages: 409-423 ISSN: 0190-0692 Discipline: Business and management; Political science School /Other Unit: School of Management Item Type: Journal Article Language: en DOI: http...

the iranian journal of radiation research (ijrr) is now in the eighth year of publication. this journal is the mouth piece of shared idea of dr shahram akhlaghpoor and me, which was established way back in 2002. at that time the main emphasis of the founder members was to make the subject of radiation research attractive and interesting especially for combating cancer and risk assessment. the d...

background: there is a paucity of information about the oral pathology related articles published in a pathology journal. this study aimed to audit the oral pathology related articles published in iranian journal of pathology (iran j pathol)from 2006 to 2015. methods: bibliometric analysis of issues of iran j pathol from 2006 to 2015 was performed using web-based search.the articles published w...

many public policy programs fail to translate ambitious headlines to on-the-ground action. the reasons for this are many and varied, but for public administration and management scholars a large part of the gap between ambition and achievement is the challenge associated with the operation of the machinery of government itself, and how it relates to the other parties that it relies on to fulfil...

In September 2006, at the European Group of Public Administration’s (EGPA) Annual Conference at Bocconi University in Milan, the Permanent Study Group on informatisation in Public Administration celebrated its twentieth anniversary. What started as a small band of men at an EGPA Conference workshop on ‘Effects of Technology on Administration’ has grown into a strong, institutionalised network o...