E Sam Overman

Biographic Data

ID1488700
NAMEE Sam Overman
GIVEN NAMESE Sam
FAMILY NAMEOverman
SIGNATUREOVERMAN E S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Colorado Denver
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS59
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
H-INDEX4

  • The New Sciences of Administration: Chaos and Quantum Theory

    E Sam OvermanARTICLEPublic Administration Review1996References: 2

    The - chaos and quantum theory - have attracted considerable attention from scholars across a spectrum of academic disciplines. Before his untimely death, I asked E. Sam Overman to prepare an essay that explains what the new sciences are and how they relate to public administration theory and practice. This essay is published below. Professor Overman's essay provides context for the two review essays that immediately follow. Looking beyond reinve…

  • The New Science of Management: Chaos and Quantum Theory and Method

    E Sam OvermanARTICLEJournal of Public Administration…1996Cited by: 4References: 1

    Are traditional social science methods incapable of dealing with the complex and indeterminant problems facing public management today? It is not so much the wedding of scientific logic and method to management theory and practice that is problematic as it is the outdated models of scientific inquiry that slow our progress. The new sciences of chaos and quantum theory offer valuable metaphors and methods that can challenge the public management r…

  • Information, Market Government, and Health Policy: A Study of Health Data Organizations in the States

    E Sam Overman, Anthony G Cahill et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1994Cited by: 2References: 4

    Information is essential to the success of market-oriented policies. Information on health care costs and quality is collected and distributed by state governments through health data organizations (HDOs) to enhance competition and lower costs in the medical industry and to improve consumer choice among medical alternatives. This article examines the information collected, produced, and distributed by state health data organizations in Colorado a…

  • Information for Control: Another Management Proverb

    E Sam Overman, Donna T LoraineARTICLEPublic Administration Review1994References: 2

    As Herbert Simon (1946) pointed out decades ago, some ideas are so powerful that they become uncritically absorbed into the theory and practice of public management. cybernetic theory of information for control is just such a powerful idea (Deutsch, Markovits, and Platt, 1986), and nowhere is this idea more obvious than with information and management control systems (Stout, 1980). A great deal of intellectual and financial resources have been in…

  • Best Practice Research and Postbureaucratic Reform1

    E Sam Overman, Kathy J BoydARTICLEJournal of Public Administration…1994Cited by: 26References: 2

    Best practice research (BPR) is the method of choice for contemporary postbureaucratic reform theorists. Public management researchers increasingly examine "best practices" to advocate postbureaucratic principles of customer-driven, value-focused, entrepreneurial, market-oriented government. BPR and postbureaucratic theory may be a positive, practical, prescriptive, and innovative new paradigm in public management research and theory, but numerou…

  • Professional Ethics: An Empirical Test of the “Separatist Thesis

    E Sam Overman, Linda Fo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Administration…1991Cited by: 4References: 2

    The appropriate contribution of professional judgment in a democratic society is an especially acute problem when decisions involve ethical choices. The “separatist thesis” is a theoretical proposition stating that professionals have distinctly different ethics than do citizens. Using a large sample of physicians and citizens, this study tested the separatist thesis on seven ethical dimensions. The findings indicate that these professionals do ha…

  • Information Policy: A Study of Values in the Policy Process

    Open AccessE Sam Overman, Anthony G Cahill et al.ARTICLEReview of Policy Research1990Cited by: 1References: 13

  • Public Administration as a Design Science

    Ralph F Shangraw, Michael M Crow et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1989Cited by: 19

  • Theory development in policy science

    Open AccessE Sam OvermanARTICLEPolicy Sciences1988Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Iron Triangles and Issue Networks of Information Policy

    E Sam Overman, Don F SimantonARTICLEPublic Administration Review1986

    The purpose of this paper is to examine the policy process associated with the development of information policy and computer technology in a public agency. We borrow from two well-known theories of the policy process. One traditional theory of federal policy making argues that policy is a result of what are known as triangles.I An iron triangle is a coalition of key policy makers including members of Congress, powerful special interest lobbies, …

  • Public Management: What's New and Different

    E Sam Overman, Alan Walter Steiss et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1984Cited by: 2