This paper studies the consequences of introducing competition between bureaucrats. Bureaucrats are supposed to grant licences to firms that satisfy certain requirements. Firms have to invest into satisfying these requirements. Some bureaucrats are corrupt, that is, they give the licence to any firm in exchange for a bribe. Some firms prefer to buy the licence rather than to invest and satisfy ...

provided me with significant assistance and feedback to produce this thesis. I would also like to thank my committee, Douglas Perkins and Craig Anne Heflinger, for their rigorous reviews of my thesis and unwavering support for my personal and professional development. I would also like to acknowledge the staff of the state social service organization and my colleagues who were part of the large...

We have a dream that within ten years, patients admitted to teaching hospitals will long to be enrolled in “researcher driven”*randomized clinical trials. Patients will be fully aware of the reduced complication rates and the improved outcomes that occur in patients involved in randomized clinical trials, the so-called “Hawthorne effect”. We have a dream that within ten years scientists will no...

Reports of the demise of the bureaucratic form of organization are greatly exaggerated, and debates about bureaucracy’s functions and effects therefore persist. For many years, a broad current of organizational scholarship has taken inspiration from Weber’s image of bureaucracy as an “iron cage” and has seen bureaucracy as profoundly ambivalent – imposing alienation as the price of efficiency. ...

Kurt Lewin famously proclaimed, “There is nothing so practical as good theory”, signifying that a good theory lends itself to being applied in a variety of contexts. This paper uses the lens of Max Weber’s theory of bureaucracy to examine contemporary EGovernment related research and literature. Two major, prevailing themes emerge from this exercise. The first theme that emerges is that IT (inf...