Austin Mccrea
Biographic Data
| ID | 4441965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Austin Mccrea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Austin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccrea |
| SIGNATURE | MCCREA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Tech University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6789-1977 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Identity and Intersectionality in Public Administration: A Layered and Integrated Framework
Intersectionality is increasingly adopted in public administration research. Yet, existing applications tend to narrow identity to static demographic characteristics and overlook how the administrative state itself generates, activates, and shapes identities. We address this gap with a theoretical framework that maps identity generation across macro-, meso-, and micro-levels of analysis. Our framework expands the inventory of identities relevant …
A Capacity for War: Armed Conflict, Administrative Capacity, and Health Outcomes
This manuscript extends the study of administrative capacity to one of its possible boundary conditions—war. Beyond the battlefield, armed conflicts affect the broader health of civilian populations. Such conflicts stress a nation’s health-care infrastructure, requiring a multi-pronged approach in allocating resources and responding to shocks. Using panel data encompassing 186 countries over two decades, the study reveals the role of administrati…
A hard pill to swallow: Social capital, opiates, and health outcomes in the United States
Over the last decade, the USA experienced an unprecedented opioid crisis. While there are myriad causes for this crisis, here we examine how social capital shapes the public’s demand for opioids and the government’s responses to the crisis. First, we posit that communities with higher levels of social capital are associated with lower rates of opioid use/abuse. Second, we posit that higher levels of social capital will be associated with a more r…
Managing Diversity Differently: The External Environment and Cross-Sector Differences in Diversity Management
A growing literature identifies the external environment as a key driver of diversity management in frontline public services. With many public services spanning the public, nonprofit, and private sectors, the degree to which ownership moderates the link between the environment and diversity management practice is an important area that has received little attention. Using longitudinal data on nearly 4,000 American hospitals from 2008 to 2012, we…
Can Administrative Capacity Address Wicked Problems? Evidence From the Frontlines of the American Opioid Crisis
What is the link between administrative capacity and wicked problems? Previous literature links capacity to standardized performance outputs, but little is known on the link between capacity and highly complex policy settings. This study examines health outcomes of the opioid crisis—a wicked problem with interdependencies across different drugs with multiple legal and illegal pathways for abuse and dependence. If capacity matters for wicked probl…
The environmental determinants of diversity management: Competition, collaboration and clients
Diversity management has received considerable attention in public management research. Most existing research, however, analyses the effects rather than the determinants of diversity management. Using panel data on American hospitals from 2008 to 2011, we probe how market competition, inter‐organizational collaboration and clientele diversity affect diversity management adoption. We find that all three environmental factors increase diversity ma…
Managing Racial Diversity: Matching Internal Strategies with Environmental Needs
Although demographic diversity has been of paramount concern to researchers and practitioners in public management, studies exploring managerial strategies to capitalize on and respond to the needs of diverse client populations are scarce. This article examines strategies for managing diversity as a way to buffer environmental challenges in service delivery and performance resulting from heterogeneous client demands. Findings suggest that adminis…
Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor and We Might Buy Them Dinner: Social Capital, Immigration, and Welfare Generosity in the American States
A long-standing debate persists regarding how social capital relates to diversity and inequality in the American states. Putnam argues social capital leads to greater equality and tolerance; however, others find that it increases racial inequality. We build on Soss, Fording, and Schram’s Racial Classification Model (RCM) and theorize that social capital enhances social trust and empathy in homogeneous contexts and favors paternalistic and punitiv…
Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor and We Might Buy Them Dinner: Social Capital, Immigration, and Welfare Generosity in the American States
A long-standing debate persists regarding how social capital relates to diversity and inequality in the American states. Putnam argues social capital leads to greater equality and tolerance; however, others find that it increases racial inequality. We build on Soss, Fording, and Schram’s Racial Classification Model (RCM) and theorize that social capital enhances social trust and empathy in homogeneous contexts and favors paternalistic and punitiv…
Managing Racial Diversity: Matching Internal Strategies with Environmental Needs
Although demographic diversity has been of paramount concern to researchers and practitioners in public management, studies exploring managerial strategies to capitalize on and respond to the needs of diverse client populations are scarce. This article examines strategies for managing diversity as a way to buffer environmental challenges in service delivery and performance resulting from heterogeneous client demands. Findings suggest that adminis…
Can Administrative Capacity Address Wicked Problems? Evidence From the Frontlines of the American Opioid Crisis
What is the link between administrative capacity and wicked problems? Previous literature links capacity to standardized performance outputs, but little is known on the link between capacity and highly complex policy settings. This study examines health outcomes of the opioid crisis—a wicked problem with interdependencies across different drugs with multiple legal and illegal pathways for abuse and dependence. If capacity matters for wicked probl…
Managing Diversity Differently: The External Environment and Cross-Sector Differences in Diversity Management
A growing literature identifies the external environment as a key driver of diversity management in frontline public services. With many public services spanning the public, nonprofit, and private sectors, the degree to which ownership moderates the link between the environment and diversity management practice is an important area that has received little attention. Using longitudinal data on nearly 4,000 American hospitals from 2008 to 2012, we…
The environmental determinants of diversity management: Competition, collaboration and clients
Diversity management has received considerable attention in public management research. Most existing research, however, analyses the effects rather than the determinants of diversity management. Using panel data on American hospitals from 2008 to 2011, we probe how market competition, inter‐organizational collaboration and clientele diversity affect diversity management adoption. We find that all three environmental factors increase diversity ma…
Managing Racial Diversity: Matching Internal Strategies with Environmental Needs
Although demographic diversity has been of paramount concern to researchers and practitioners in public management, studies exploring managerial strategies to capitalize on and respond to the needs of diverse client populations are scarce. This article examines strategies for managing diversity as a way to buffer environmental challenges in service delivery and performance resulting from heterogeneous client demands. Findings suggest that adminis…
Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor and We Might Buy Them Dinner: Social Capital, Immigration, and Welfare Generosity in the American States
A long-standing debate persists regarding how social capital relates to diversity and inequality in the American states. Putnam argues social capital leads to greater equality and tolerance; however, others find that it increases racial inequality. We build on Soss, Fording, and Schram’s Racial Classification Model (RCM) and theorize that social capital enhances social trust and empathy in homogeneous contexts and favors paternalistic and punitiv…
The environmental determinants of diversity management: Competition, collaboration and clients
Diversity management has received considerable attention in public management research. Most existing research, however, analyses the effects rather than the determinants of diversity management. Using panel data on American hospitals from 2008 to 2011, we probe how market competition, inter‐organizational collaboration and clientele diversity affect diversity management adoption. We find that all three environmental factors increase diversity ma…
Can Administrative Capacity Address Wicked Problems? Evidence From the Frontlines of the American Opioid Crisis
What is the link between administrative capacity and wicked problems? Previous literature links capacity to standardized performance outputs, but little is known on the link between capacity and highly complex policy settings. This study examines health outcomes of the opioid crisis—a wicked problem with interdependencies across different drugs with multiple legal and illegal pathways for abuse and dependence. If capacity matters for wicked probl…
Managing Diversity Differently: The External Environment and Cross-Sector Differences in Diversity Management
A growing literature identifies the external environment as a key driver of diversity management in frontline public services. With many public services spanning the public, nonprofit, and private sectors, the degree to which ownership moderates the link between the environment and diversity management practice is an important area that has received little attention. Using longitudinal data on nearly 4,000 American hospitals from 2008 to 2012, we…
A Capacity for War: Armed Conflict, Administrative Capacity, and Health Outcomes
This manuscript extends the study of administrative capacity to one of its possible boundary conditions—war. Beyond the battlefield, armed conflicts affect the broader health of civilian populations. Such conflicts stress a nation’s health-care infrastructure, requiring a multi-pronged approach in allocating resources and responding to shocks. Using panel data encompassing 186 countries over two decades, the study reveals the role of administrati…
A hard pill to swallow: Social capital, opiates, and health outcomes in the United States
Over the last decade, the USA experienced an unprecedented opioid crisis. While there are myriad causes for this crisis, here we examine how social capital shapes the public’s demand for opioids and the government’s responses to the crisis. First, we posit that communities with higher levels of social capital are associated with lower rates of opioid use/abuse. Second, we posit that higher levels of social capital will be associated with a more r…
Identity and Intersectionality in Public Administration: A Layered and Integrated Framework
Intersectionality is increasingly adopted in public administration research. Yet, existing applications tend to narrow identity to static demographic characteristics and overlook how the administrative state itself generates, activates, and shapes identities. We address this gap with a theoretical framework that maps identity generation across macro-, meso-, and micro-levels of analysis. Our framework expands the inventory of identities relevant …
Political science (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Diversity (politics (3 works) · Diversity management (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (3 works)