Ayako Nakamura
Biographic Data
| ID | 4064696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ayako Nakamura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ayako |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakamura |
| SIGNATURE | NAKAMURA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tohoku University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2246-9016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Outsourced, Inspected, and Effective? The Effect of Inspections on the Safety Performance of Prisons in England and Wales 2004–2012
While outsourcing of public services is today widespread, maintaining their quality remains a challenge. External inspections are seen as essential for overseeing private providers, yet their effectiveness has not been thoroughly investigated. This study evaluates the impact of pre‐scheduled inspections on the performance of private and publicly operated prisons in England and Wales between 2004 and 2012, focusing on two key safety indicators: se…
Controlling Risk Inside Modern Government: Developing Interval Measures of the Grid‐group Dimensions for Assessing Suicide Risk Control Systems in the English and Japanese Prison Services
Mechanisms for controlling government organizations have attracted major interest from public administration researchers. Cultural theory has been used as a tool to identify the core control approaches of individual organizations. Whereas major existing studies have applied the theory based on the cultural types using nominal‐level measures, this article builds a novel set of interval measures, focusing on two fundamental factors of government co…
Shared performance targets for the horizontal coordination of public organizations: Control theory and departmentalism in the United Kingdom’s Public Service Agreement system
Coordinating organizations horizontally is a longstanding difficulty of public governance, often called departmentalism in central government systems. Several tools for horizontal coordination have previously been analysed but shared performance targets across departments have received relatively little attention. This article develops a control theory of shared performance target systems for horizontal coordination of departments consisting of ‘…
Networking”Against Human Trafficking in Japan: The Japan Network Against Trafficking in Persons (JNATIP) and the Polaris Project Japan
Shared performance targets for the horizontal coordination of public organizations: Control theory and departmentalism in the United Kingdom’s Public Service Agreement system
Coordinating organizations horizontally is a longstanding difficulty of public governance, often called departmentalism in central government systems. Several tools for horizontal coordination have previously been analysed but shared performance targets across departments have received relatively little attention. This article develops a control theory of shared performance target systems for horizontal coordination of departments consisting of ‘…
Controlling Risk Inside Modern Government: Developing Interval Measures of the Grid‐group Dimensions for Assessing Suicide Risk Control Systems in the English and Japanese Prison Services
Mechanisms for controlling government organizations have attracted major interest from public administration researchers. Cultural theory has been used as a tool to identify the core control approaches of individual organizations. Whereas major existing studies have applied the theory based on the cultural types using nominal‐level measures, this article builds a novel set of interval measures, focusing on two fundamental factors of government co…
Outsourced, Inspected, and Effective? The Effect of Inspections on the Safety Performance of Prisons in England and Wales 2004–2012
While outsourcing of public services is today widespread, maintaining their quality remains a challenge. External inspections are seen as essential for overseeing private providers, yet their effectiveness has not been thoroughly investigated. This study evaluates the impact of pre‐scheduled inspections on the performance of private and publicly operated prisons in England and Wales between 2004 and 2012, focusing on two key safety indicators: se…
Networking”Against Human Trafficking in Japan: The Japan Network Against Trafficking in Persons (JNATIP) and the Polaris Project Japan
Shared performance targets for the horizontal coordination of public organizations: Control theory and departmentalism in the United Kingdom’s Public Service Agreement system
Coordinating organizations horizontally is a longstanding difficulty of public governance, often called departmentalism in central government systems. Several tools for horizontal coordination have previously been analysed but shared performance targets across departments have received relatively little attention. This article develops a control theory of shared performance target systems for horizontal coordination of departments consisting of ‘…
Controlling Risk Inside Modern Government: Developing Interval Measures of the Grid‐group Dimensions for Assessing Suicide Risk Control Systems in the English and Japanese Prison Services
Mechanisms for controlling government organizations have attracted major interest from public administration researchers. Cultural theory has been used as a tool to identify the core control approaches of individual organizations. Whereas major existing studies have applied the theory based on the cultural types using nominal‐level measures, this article builds a novel set of interval measures, focusing on two fundamental factors of government co…
Outsourced, Inspected, and Effective? The Effect of Inspections on the Safety Performance of Prisons in England and Wales 2004–2012
While outsourcing of public services is today widespread, maintaining their quality remains a challenge. External inspections are seen as essential for overseeing private providers, yet their effectiveness has not been thoroughly investigated. This study evaluates the impact of pre‐scheduled inspections on the performance of private and publicly operated prisons in England and Wales between 2004 and 2012, focusing on two key safety indicators: se…
Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Control (management (2 works) · Government (linguistics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Accountability (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works)