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Public and Private Management: What's the Difference? by Boyne, George A.

“…Critics of New Public Management argue that differences between public and private organizations are so great that business practices should not be transferred…”
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Dimensions of Publicness and Organizational Performance: A Review of the Evidence by Andrews, Rhys, Boyne, George A., Walker, Richard M.

“…Debates about the merits of publicness have dominated the public administration landscape since the foundation of the modern state. The extent of…”
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Sources of Public Service Improvement: A Critical Review and Research Agenda by Boyne, George A.

“…Evidence from sixty-five emprirical studies of the determinants of public service performance is critically reviewed. The statistical results are grouped on…”
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Size, Structure and Administrative Overheads: An Empirical Analysis of English Local Authorities by Andrews, Rhys, Boyne, George A.

“…The relationship is analysed between size, local government structure and administrative overheads in English local authorities. Size and structure effects are…”
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Democracy and Government Performance: Holding Incumbents Accountable in English Local Governments by Boyne, George A., James, Oliver, John, Peter, Petrovsky, Nicolai

“…The link between government performance and support for incumbents is a key mechanism of accountable government. We model the vote share of incumbent…”
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Performance Targets and Public Service Improvement by Boyne, George A., Chen, Alex A.

“…Theories of rational planning suggest that organizational performance improves if targets for future achievements are set. We test this proposition using panel…”
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Pseudospinodal mechanism for fine α/β microstructures in β-Ti alloys by Boyne, A., Wang, D., Shi, R.P., Zheng, Y., Behera, A., Nag, S., Tiley, J.S., Fraser, H.L., Banerjee, R., Wang, Y.

“…Recent experimental observations in β-Ti alloys have demonstrated the formation of a dense population of fine intragranular α precipates when the alloy is…”
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New Leaders' Managerial Background and the Performance of Public Organizations: The Theory of Publicness Fit by Petrovsky, Nicolai, James, Oliver, Boyne, George A.

“…We develop a theory of the effect of top management succession on the performance of public organizations. The theory is rooted in the fundamental…”
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Non-classical homogeneous precipitation mediated by compositional fluctuations in titanium alloys by Nag, S., Zheng, Y., Williams, R.E.A., Devaraj, A., Boyne, A., Wang, Y., Collins, P.C., Viswanathan, G.B., Tiley, J.S., Muddle, B.C., Banerjee, R., Fraser, H.L.

“…This paper presents experimental evidence of homogeneous precipitation of the α-phase within the β matrix of a titanium alloy, and then accounts for this phase…”
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Centralization, Organizational Strategy, and Public Service Performance by Andrews, Rhys, Boyne, George A., Law, Jennifer, Walker, Richard M.

“…We test the separate and joint effects of centralization and organizational strategy on the performance of 53 UK public service organizations. Centralization…”
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Phase field microelasticity model of dislocation climb: Methodology and applications by Ke, J.H., Boyne, A., Wang, Y., Kao, C.R.

“…We develop a dislocation climb model based on a phase field description that couples non-conservative dislocation motion and vacancy diffusion. A…”
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Numerical simulation of irradiation hardening in Zirconium by Boyne, A., Shen, C., Najafabadi, R., Wang, Y.

“…A phase field model is developed to simulate interactions between gliding dislocations and irradiation induced damage loops (i.e., vacancy and…”
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Strategy Content and Public Service Organizations by Boyne, George A., Walker, Richard M.

“…Existing classifications of organizational strategy have limited relevance to public agencies. They confuse strategy processes and strategy content, consist of…”
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Decorated Core-Shell Architectures: Influence of the Dimensional Properties on Hybrid Resonances by Boyne, Devon A., Griep, Mark H.

“…Emerging nanoplasmonics utilizing asymmetric core-shell architectures present opportunities to precisely control the plasmon position and signal amplification…”
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Strategic Management and the Performance of Public Organizations: Testing Venerable Ideas against Recent Theories by Meier, Kenneth J., O'Toole, Laurence J., Boyne, George A., Walker, Richard M.

“…Miles and Snow, among others, argue that strategy content is an important influence on organizational performance. Their typology, applied recently to public…”
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Does Public Service Performance Affect Top Management Turnover? by Boyne, George A., James, Oliver, John, Peter, Petrovsky, Nicolai

“…Political and organizational theories suggest that the turnover of chief executives and other members of senior management teams are likely to be influenced by…”
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What is public service improvement? by Boyne, George A.

“…Five conceptual models of public service improvement are derived from the large literature on organizational effectiveness. These are the goal,…”
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Concepts and Indicators of Local Authority Performance: An Evaluation of the Statutory Frameworks in England and Wales by Boyne, George A

“…Abstract only…”
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Strategy Content and Organizational Performance: An Empirical Analysis by Andrews, Rhys, Boyne, George A., Walker, Richard M.

“…This study presents the first empirical test of the proposition that strategy content is a key determinant of organizational performance in the public sector…”
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Public management reform and organizational performance: An empirical assessment of the U.K. Labour government's public service improvement strategy by Walker, Richard M., Boyne, George A.

“…We present the first empirical assessment of the U.K. Labour government's program of public management reform. This reform program is based on rational…”
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