Robert P Mcgowan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1487876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert P Mcgowan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert P |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcgowan |
| SIGNATURE | MCGOWAN R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learning and Experience
Effective management of knowledge and how an organization learns from its experiences have become increasingly relevant to most technology‐effective and innovation management issues. Organizational learning has been identified in technology and innovation management research as critical to a firm achieving and sustaining a competitive advantage. We address this development by focusing on what is meant by knowledge, how individual knowledge leads …
The Greening of Organizations
This article draws some parallels between administrative trends of the past 15 years and principles drawn from the ecology movement. This task is facilitated by the fact that ecologists have been interested in areas that go beyond questions of air, water, and soil. Both administrative practices and the ecology movement have been recommending a departure from primitive mechanics, because both advocate diversity flexibility, and human scale and rec…
Symposium on Differing Perspectives on Economic Development
Patterns and Predictors of Economic Development Power in Local Government: A Policy Perspective on Issues in One State
The purpose of this paper is to examine patterns and predictors of local government economic development in one state. The approach uses data from local governments and various statistical analyses to derive common dimensions of local government power and examine predictors of these dimensions. The results suggest that state policies on development strat‐egies have to be developed and effectively exercised to increase the power of the local gover…
Technology and Economic Development Strategies: A Foreword
Labor and training issues in advanced technology industrial development
The United States, together with other advanced industrial societies is having to address the skill and training requirements which stem from occupational change as a result of technological innovation. This article examines the major labor questions for policy‐makers in the USA now and in the near future
Decision Support Systems in State Government: Promises and Pitfalls
The purpose of this paper is to survey the use of decision support systems in state government. A series of questions was used to guide the research. Has the pace of technology outstripped our ability to effectively manage it? What boundaries or hurdles must be passed if decision support systems are to become key tools in influencing policy decisions? What are the appropriate applications for decision support systems? A systematic guide for intro…
Impact of Productivity Measurement Systems on Municipal Performance
Recently, a challenge to the use of traditional productivity and performance measurement tools has emerged. The focus of this debate i s whether such tools are instrumental for making critical trade‐off decisions or program changes. In a nationwide survey of municipalities on this subject, the authors found that performance measurement systems are used across a number of service‐related functions. While their perceived contribution to overall mun…
The Use of Management Tools in Municipal Government: A National Survey
Students and practitioners of urban management have long been interested in the management capabilities of local government, stemming from the reform era and its concern with instituting businesslike administrative practices in municipal government. In more recent times, beginning roughly a decade ago, this concern reemerged in the form of a perceived imperative to implement more sophisticated management technology in city halls in order to enabl…
Local Governments Initiatives in a Climate of Uncertainty
Buried among all the recent clamor and pronouncements for returning resource and program control to the states and localities are a number of critical assumptions that warrant further study. The first assumption is that the federal government has become removed from the local citizenry and constituent needs. Such a statement has certain appeal (particularly to the electorate) since it associates insensitivity to local conditions with geographic d…
Local Government Management: Reactive or Adaptive
Given events of recent years (the proposal for a New Federalism, the move to consolidate block and categorical grants, and a reduction in available revenue from many sources), the management and delivery of local services are taking on added significance. Urban managers are in the difficult and less-than-rewarding position of having to translate a number of federal and state policy directives into actual program reductions or consolidations. Unfo…
Financial Indicators and Trends for Local Governments: A State-based Policy Perspective
Recent federal reports, the projected "new" federalism, research in financial and economic trends, and the emerging consensus concerning local government distress have highlighted the fact that no comprehensive or systematic federal, state, or local policies exist to deal with the problems that have been identified. The purpose of this article is to perform a statebased study of financial patterns and trends in local governments that have implica…
Patterns of Information Communication by Public Managers: A Study of State Agencies
The Professional in Public Organizations: Lessons from the Private Sector
Strategies for Information Management: The Administrator's Perspective
12. Roosevelt, Theodore, The New Nationalism, New York: Outlook Publishers, 1910. 13. Hamilton, Edward, Non-Constitutional Management of a Constitutional Problem, Daedalus, Winter 1978. 14. The most important proposals before Congress are fiscal note bills S.43 (Sasser, D. Tenn.) and HR. 1465 (Zeferetti, D. N.Y.) which call for the Congressional Budget Office to conduct cost estimates of major regulation legislation having an expected economic im…
Enacting the Environment: Organization Persistence and Change
Local Governments Initiatives in a Climate of Uncertainty
Buried among all the recent clamor and pronouncements for returning resource and program control to the states and localities are a number of critical assumptions that warrant further study. The first assumption is that the federal government has become removed from the local citizenry and constituent needs. Such a statement has certain appeal (particularly to the electorate) since it associates insensitivity to local conditions with geographic d…
Local Government Management: Reactive or Adaptive
Given events of recent years (the proposal for a New Federalism, the move to consolidate block and categorical grants, and a reduction in available revenue from many sources), the management and delivery of local services are taking on added significance. Urban managers are in the difficult and less-than-rewarding position of having to translate a number of federal and state policy directives into actual program reductions or consolidations. Unfo…
Impact of Productivity Measurement Systems on Municipal Performance
Recently, a challenge to the use of traditional productivity and performance measurement tools has emerged. The focus of this debate i s whether such tools are instrumental for making critical trade‐off decisions or program changes. In a nationwide survey of municipalities on this subject, the authors found that performance measurement systems are used across a number of service‐related functions. While their perceived contribution to overall mun…
Strategies for Information Management: The Administrator's Perspective
12. Roosevelt, Theodore, The New Nationalism, New York: Outlook Publishers, 1910. 13. Hamilton, Edward, Non-Constitutional Management of a Constitutional Problem, Daedalus, Winter 1978. 14. The most important proposals before Congress are fiscal note bills S.43 (Sasser, D. Tenn.) and HR. 1465 (Zeferetti, D. N.Y.) which call for the Congressional Budget Office to conduct cost estimates of major regulation legislation having an expected economic im…
Patterns and Predictors of Economic Development Power in Local Government: A Policy Perspective on Issues in One State
The purpose of this paper is to examine patterns and predictors of local government economic development in one state. The approach uses data from local governments and various statistical analyses to derive common dimensions of local government power and examine predictors of these dimensions. The results suggest that state policies on development strat‐egies have to be developed and effectively exercised to increase the power of the local gover…
Financial Indicators and Trends for Local Governments: A State-based Policy Perspective
Recent federal reports, the projected "new" federalism, research in financial and economic trends, and the emerging consensus concerning local government distress have highlighted the fact that no comprehensive or systematic federal, state, or local policies exist to deal with the problems that have been identified. The purpose of this article is to perform a statebased study of financial patterns and trends in local governments that have implica…
Patterns of Information Communication by Public Managers: A Study of State Agencies
Enacting the Environment: Organization Persistence and Change
Strategies for Information Management: The Administrator's Perspective
12. Roosevelt, Theodore, The New Nationalism, New York: Outlook Publishers, 1910. 13. Hamilton, Edward, Non-Constitutional Management of a Constitutional Problem, Daedalus, Winter 1978. 14. The most important proposals before Congress are fiscal note bills S.43 (Sasser, D. Tenn.) and HR. 1465 (Zeferetti, D. N.Y.) which call for the Congressional Budget Office to conduct cost estimates of major regulation legislation having an expected economic im…
Patterns of Information Communication by Public Managers: A Study of State Agencies
The Professional in Public Organizations: Lessons from the Private Sector
Local Governments Initiatives in a Climate of Uncertainty
Buried among all the recent clamor and pronouncements for returning resource and program control to the states and localities are a number of critical assumptions that warrant further study. The first assumption is that the federal government has become removed from the local citizenry and constituent needs. Such a statement has certain appeal (particularly to the electorate) since it associates insensitivity to local conditions with geographic d…
Local Government Management: Reactive or Adaptive
Given events of recent years (the proposal for a New Federalism, the move to consolidate block and categorical grants, and a reduction in available revenue from many sources), the management and delivery of local services are taking on added significance. Urban managers are in the difficult and less-than-rewarding position of having to translate a number of federal and state policy directives into actual program reductions or consolidations. Unfo…
Financial Indicators and Trends for Local Governments: A State-based Policy Perspective
Recent federal reports, the projected "new" federalism, research in financial and economic trends, and the emerging consensus concerning local government distress have highlighted the fact that no comprehensive or systematic federal, state, or local policies exist to deal with the problems that have been identified. The purpose of this article is to perform a statebased study of financial patterns and trends in local governments that have implica…
The Use of Management Tools in Municipal Government: A National Survey
Students and practitioners of urban management have long been interested in the management capabilities of local government, stemming from the reform era and its concern with instituting businesslike administrative practices in municipal government. In more recent times, beginning roughly a decade ago, this concern reemerged in the form of a perceived imperative to implement more sophisticated management technology in city halls in order to enabl…
Impact of Productivity Measurement Systems on Municipal Performance
Recently, a challenge to the use of traditional productivity and performance measurement tools has emerged. The focus of this debate i s whether such tools are instrumental for making critical trade‐off decisions or program changes. In a nationwide survey of municipalities on this subject, the authors found that performance measurement systems are used across a number of service‐related functions. While their perceived contribution to overall mun…
Labor and training issues in advanced technology industrial development
The United States, together with other advanced industrial societies is having to address the skill and training requirements which stem from occupational change as a result of technological innovation. This article examines the major labor questions for policy‐makers in the USA now and in the near future
Decision Support Systems in State Government: Promises and Pitfalls
The purpose of this paper is to survey the use of decision support systems in state government. A series of questions was used to guide the research. Has the pace of technology outstripped our ability to effectively manage it? What boundaries or hurdles must be passed if decision support systems are to become key tools in influencing policy decisions? What are the appropriate applications for decision support systems? A systematic guide for intro…
Patterns and Predictors of Economic Development Power in Local Government: A Policy Perspective on Issues in One State
The purpose of this paper is to examine patterns and predictors of local government economic development in one state. The approach uses data from local governments and various statistical analyses to derive common dimensions of local government power and examine predictors of these dimensions. The results suggest that state policies on development strat‐egies have to be developed and effectively exercised to increase the power of the local gover…
Technology and Economic Development Strategies: A Foreword
Symposium on Differing Perspectives on Economic Development
The Greening of Organizations
This article draws some parallels between administrative trends of the past 15 years and principles drawn from the ecology movement. This task is facilitated by the fact that ecologists have been interested in areas that go beyond questions of air, water, and soil. Both administrative practices and the ecology movement have been recommending a departure from primitive mechanics, because both advocate diversity flexibility, and human scale and rec…
Learning and Experience
Effective management of knowledge and how an organization learns from its experiences have become increasingly relevant to most technology‐effective and innovation management issues. Organizational learning has been identified in technology and innovation management research as critical to a firm achieving and sustaining a competitive advantage. We address this development by focusing on what is meant by knowledge, how individual knowledge leads …
Business (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Public Administration (8 works) · Local government (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 works) · Government (linguistics (4 works)