Conference Papers for the 9th Public Management Research Conference, Tucson, Arizona.

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Allen, B. A. C. & Walker, J. B. 2007. Evolution of local government supply markets – evidence from an evaluation.

Alexander, R. & O’Leary, R. 2007. Building collaborative capacity in U.S. federal agencies, part one: Evolution of a public organization from birth to adolescence: Institutionalizing, legitimacy seeking, and collaboration in the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution.

Andrews, R. 2007. Organizational social capital and public service performance.

Bertelli, A. M. & John, P. 2007. Performance for sale: Performance measurement, vote-buying, and evidence from english local government.

Boyne, G.A., James, O., John, P. & Petrovsky, N. 2007. Does public service performance affect top management turnover?

Bozeman, B. 2007. A preliminary theory of organization implosions: Lessons from the Stanford yacht case.

Bretschneider, S., Ballal, S., Genest, A. & Smith, S. 2007. Measuring management contribution through decomposition of efficiency scores.

Brewer, G. A. and Hupe, P. L. 2007. Working both sides of the street: bringing together policy and Organizational perspectives on public service performance.

Brewer, G. A. & Kellough, J. E. 2007. Employee assessments of fairness in U. S. federal agencies: An exploratory analysis.

Brown, T., Potoski, M., & Van Slyke, D. 2007. Complex contracting: Lessons in contract management from the department of Homeland security’s secure border initiative.

Carr, J. B., LeRoux, K., Feiock, R., Shrestha, M. 2007. Trust, transaction costs, and service production decisions: An institutional collective action explanation.

Cho, Y. J & Ringquist, E. 2007. Trustworthiness, leadership, and organizational performance: A longitudinal analysis.

Clerkin, R. M., Paynter. S. R. & Taylor, J. K. 2007. The linkage of public service motivation and charitable activity.

Comfort, L. K. & Wukich, C. 2007. Designing resilience for communities at risk: Building capacity for collective action.

Coursey, D.,Yang, K., Kasserkert, A. & Norris, D. 2007. E-gov adoption in U. S. local governments: Bridging public management and institutional explanations in a pooled time series model.

Danczyk, P. A. 2007. Intergovernmental interaction in threat preparedness and response—California’s approach.

Donahue, A. K., Robbins, M. D. & Simonsen, B. 2007. Citizens and preparedness: expectations, attitudes, and behavior.

Durant, R. F. 2007. Sharpening a knife cleverly: Organizational change, policy paradox, and the 'weaponizing' of administrative reforms.

Edelenbos, J., Steijn, B. & Klijn, E. 2007. Does democratic anchorage matter? An inquiry into the relation between democratic anchorage and effectiveness of Dutch spatial projects.

Feeney, M. K., & Bozeman, B. 2007. Staying late: Comparing work hours in the public and nonprofit sectors.

Feldman, M. S. & Quick, K. S. 2007. Resource generation and public participation.

Fernandez, S. & Wise, L. R. 2007. Exploring why public organizations ingest innovations.

Forbes, M. & Lynn, L.E., Jr. 2007. Governance and organizational effectiveness: Toward a theory of government performance.

Gazley, B. & Brudney, J. L. 2007. Collaboration and partnership: Preparing local networks for emergency situations.

Gazley, B. & Christensen, R. K. 2007. Salvaging capacity’s usefulness: analysis of meaning and measurement.

Getha-Taylor, H. 2007. Collaborative competencies.

Gugerty, M. K. 2007. Collective action and private governance: Explaining variation in nonprofit voluntary regulation regimes.

Guo, C. & Saxton, G. D. 2007. Accountability online: The web as an accountability-building tool for nonprofit organizations.

Hamidullah, M. & Wilkins, V. M. 2007. Looking for their Dick Vermeil: How prior performance influences the selection decision.

Hansen, J. R. 2007. Strategic management when profit isn’t the end: Differences between public organizations.

Hartley, R. E. & Douglas, J. W. 2007. Isomorphism and policy diffusion in local jurisdictions: Explaining the spread of drug courts across four states.

Hassan, S. & Rohrbaugh, J. 2007. Incongruity in 360-degree feedback ratings and competing managerial values: Evidence from a public agency setting*.

Heckman, A. C. 2007. Does management matter? Testing models of government performance.

Heinrich, C. J. & Hill, C. J. 2007. The role of state governance in the adoption of pharmaceutical technologies in substance abuse treatment.

Herranz, J., Jr. 2007. Balancing formal and informal processes in multisectoral network transition management.

Isett, K. R. & Ellis, A. 2007. Explaining new relationships: Sector, network, and organizational impacts on the growth of linkages in multi-sector service delivery networks.

Jacobson, W., Bowling, C. J., Kelleher, C. A. & Wright, D. S. 2007. A woman’s touch? Gendered networks in state administration*.

Jeffares, S. & Skelcher, C. 2007. Creating something from nothing? Explaining the democratic performance of low legacy institutions for integrating new migrants in three European cities.

Jennings, E. T., Jr. & Woods, N. D. 2007. Does Management really matter? Management quality and state environmental performance.

Johnston, J. M. & Girth, A. M. 2007. Public managers and “managing the market": Evidence from the front lines of contracting.

Jones, K. S. 2007. Just work? Job satisfaction and turnover across sectors.

Jun, K. N., Shiau, E. & Weare, C. 2007. How am I doing? The relationship between external and internal performance measures.

Jun, K. N. & Weare, C. 2007. The adoption of public agency websites and online services: On efficiency, power, and legitimacy.

Jung, C. & Rainey, H. C. 2007. Factors related to PART performance scores of U. S. federal programs: Goal ambiguity, program size, type, political content, and budget increases.

Kapucu, N., Augustin, M. E. & Garayev, V. 2007. Interstate partnerships in emergency management: Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) in response to catastrophic disasters.

Keiser, L. R. & Miller, S. M. 2007. The Impact of Interest Groups and Administrative Capacity on Access to VA Disability Benefits.

Kelleher, C. A. & Yackee, S. W. 2007. A political consequence of contracting: Organized interests and state agency decision-making.

Kim, S. 2007. Democratic governance, government performance, and trust in government: China and South Korea.

Kim, Y. 2007. Enriching policy analysis: The role of agent-based models.

Kim, S. E., Lee, J. W. & Kim, B. S. 2007. The quality of management and government innovation: An empirical study.

Kingsley, G. & Sosinska, O. 2007. Tracing the influence of policy inducements and embedded relations on the formation and operation of partnerships.

Krueger, S. & Bernick, E. 2007. State rules and local governance choices.

Langbein, L. 2007. Controlling federal agencies: The impact of external controls on worker discretion and productivity.

Lee, J. W. & Kim, S. E. 2007. Implementing performance management: An empirical analysis of the conditions for successful implementation of performance management in U. S. federal agencies.

Lee, S. Y. & Whitford, A. B. 2007. Government effectiveness in comparative perspective.

LeRoux, K. & Goerdel, H. T. 2007. Political interest representation and public charities: A strategic management explanation of nonprofit advocacy.

Malatesta, D. 2007. The determinants of contract duration in cable television franchising in New Jersey.

Marlowe, J. 2007. Network stability and organization performance: Does context matter?

McBeath, B. & Meezan, W. 2007. Interorganizational disparities in social service provision.

McCaffrey, D. P. & Smith, A. E. 2007. The interaction of formal and informal mechanisms in shared regulation.

McGuire, M. & Agranoff, R. 2007. Answering the big questions, asking the bigger questions: Expanding the public network management empirical research agenda.

Meier, K. J., O’Toole, L. J., Jr., Boyne, G. A., Walker, R. M. & Andrews, R. 2007. Alignment and results: Testing the interaction effects of strategy, structure, and environment from Miles and Snow*.

Moulton, S. 2007. More than intent: Evaluating publicness in mortgage lending.

Moynihan, D. P. 2007. Member diversity, shared authority and trust in crisis management: The network aspects of incident command systems.

Norsby, D. J. & DeHart-Davis, L. 2007. Gender differences in emotional labor processes.

Paarlberg, L. E., Perry, J. L. & Hondeghem, A. 2007. From theory to practice: Strategies for applying public service motivation.

Page, S. & Barnard, T. 2007. Collaborative governance and the performance of transit megaprojects: Strange bedfellows or inseparable partners?

Park, S. M. 2007. A multi-level analysis of work motivation and organizational socialization: Probing the internalized motivational effects among public managers.

Perry, J. & Lee, G. 2007. The meaningfulness of work and public service motivation: A panel study of national service participants.

Pitts, D. W. 2007. How effective is public management research? An analysis of scope and methodology.

Pitts, D. W., Hicklin, A. K., Hawes, D. P. & Melton, E. 2007. Who manages diversity? Predicting diversity management implementation in public organizations.

Portillo, S. & DeHart-Davis, L. 2007. Gender and organization rule abidance.

Provan, K. G., Amy Fish, A. & Sydow, J. 2007. Interorganizational networks at the network level: A review of the empirical literature on whole networks.

Provan, K. G., Huang, K., Milward, H. B. & Fish, A. 2007. The evolution of structural embeddedness and organizational social outcomes in a centrally governed health and human services network.

Reingold, D. A. & Liu, H. 2007. Do poverty attitudes of social service agency directors influence organizational behavior?

Riccucci, N. M. & Thompson, F. J. 2007. The new public management, homeland security, and the politics of civil service reform.

Robertson, P. J., Lee, H. W., Galloway-Gilliam, L. & Nomachi, J. 2007. Relational trust in a collaborative network: An exploration of antecedents.

Robinson, S. E. 2007. Resilience of post-disaster emergency response networks: Evacuation response and Texas school districts.

Sandfort, J. R. 2007. Deepening our understanding of human service organizational technology.

Schedler, K. & Collm, A. 2007. Management and evolution: Towards understanding strategic developments in public administrations.

Smith, C. R. & Fernandez, S. 2007. Representative bureaucracy and federal procurement: Examining the impact of minority representation on the awarding of contracts to small disadvantaged businesses.

Smith, S. 2007. Governance and India's maternal mortality crisis.

Smith, S. R. 2007. Hybrid organizations and the diversification of policy tools: The governance challenge.

Tang, S. Y. & Lo, C. W. H. 2007. The political economy of service organization reform in China: An institutional choice analysis.

Thompson, J. R. & Rainey, H. G. 2007. Organizational transformation, logics of action and the IRS, 1998-2007.

Vollenberg, M., Raab, J. & Kenis, P. 2007. Provan and Milward 1995 revisited: A case-study on network structure and network effectiveness of a Dutch mental health care network.

Walker, R. M., Avellaneda, C. & Berry, F. S. 2007. Explaining the diffusion of innovation types amongst high and low innovative localities: A test of the Berry and Berry model.

Watkins-Hayes, C. 2007. Toward an analysis of “interpretive representation:” Inside the black box of racially representative bureaucracies.

Wilkins, V. M., Wenger, J. B. & Woodbury, S. A. 2007. The eligibility tango: Client information, bureaucratic discretion, and Unemployment insurance eligibility.

Winter, S. C., Dinesen, P. T. & May, P. J. 2007. Implementation regimes and street-level bureaucrats: Employment service delivery in Denmark.

Wise, C. & Witesman, E. 2007. The centralization-decentralization paradox in civil service reform: Why training of a centralized civil service may lead to more effective democratization.

Wiseman, M. 2007. Performing for prizes: The high performance bonus as an instrument for improving management of American social assistance.

Witesman, E. 2007. The effect of goal alignment patterns on policy outcomes for state administered federal mandates.

Wright, B. E. & Christensen, R. K. 2007. Public service motivation: A longitudinal analysis of the job attraction-selection-attrition model.

Wright, B. E. & Pandey, S. K. 2007. What makes mission matter? Mission valence, public service motivation and human resource outcomes.