Eric W Welch
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 193681 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Eric W Welch |
| PRENOMES | Eric W |
| SOBRENOME | Welch |
| ASSINATURA | WELCH E W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1902-0370 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 812 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Contracting Services for Response to Extreme Weather Events in Public Organizations
Public organizations facing emergencies often coordinate with other local public and non‐profit organizations for assistance. Yet we know little about the contractual relationships public organizations build with external organizations for emergency responses. Drawing from organizational theories, we explore organizational factors behind public organization decisions to contract for responses to extreme weather events. Using agency‐level data mer…
Organizational Memories of Extreme Events
The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events require organizations to effectively manage the threats these phenomena pose. To respond to these challenges, public agencies often turn to their organizational memories for guidance. Organizational memories support information processing capacity, facilitate sensemaking, and legitimize and speed up decision-making processes. While memories influence different aspects of organization…
Linking administrative burden to academic scientists’ research performance
Technological vulnerability and knowledge of cyber-incidents
Governments are greatly concerned about cybersecurity, yet most public managers perceive their organization as technologically vulnerable and have little knowledge of past cyber-incidents. Both vulnerability perceptions and knowledge of past exposure are known to affect innovativeness but evidence is mixed and context-dependent. Using a three-year nationally representative pooled dataset of 2, 500 managers in 500 US cities, we find that technolog…
Conceptualizing Meso‐Level Organizations and Their Relations to Catalyze Transformative Climate Adaptation
Planned adaptation programs and projects typically span organizational levels. Adaptation resources are channeled through networks of actor relations, spanning macro‐level policy and finance actors to micro‐level communities and households. Although undertheorized and rarely the focus of adaptation research, a plethora of organizational actors operate between and across the macro‐ and micro‐levels, playing instrumental roles in the design, implem…
Organizational risk perception in public agencies
Public agencies are increasingly required to respond to multiple and evolving threats. Perceptions of risk are important triggers of organizational responses and motivate adaptive strategies. Integrating administrative data with a survey of public managers employed across the 300 largest transit agencies in the US, we examine how outsourcing decisions and reliance on scientific and professional sources of information influence public agencies’ pe…
Responding strategically to natural hazards
How public organizations respond strategically to natural hazards is relevant for maintaining functionality and protecting citizens. An essential component of strategic response is coordinating with multiple organizations in ways that provide resources and mutual support. Drawing from resource dependence and cognitive behavior theories, we investigate how different contextual factors predict coordination strategy. We focus on transit agencies in …
U.S. Visa and Immigration Policy Challenges
Intra-Organizational Communication in Public Agencies
This article develops and tests a set of hypotheses examining how contracting out of public services affects intra-organizational communication in public agencies (i.e., the principal organization). We draw from two competing perspectives: contracting scholarship argues that outsourcing reduces an organization's structural complexity and enhances intra-organizational communication, while organizational communication studies suggest that outsourci…
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change
Climate change can bring about large-scale irreversible physical impacts and systemic changes in the operating environment of public organizations. Research on preconditions for organizational adaptation to climate change has produced two parallel lines of inquiry, one focusing on macro-level norms, rules, and expectations and the other on meso-level culture, design, and structure within the organization. Drawing on the meta-theory of institution…
Late-stage academic entrepreneurship
Determinants of cyber-incidents among small and medium US cities
The Impact of Demographic Composition of Social Networks on Perceived Inclusion in the Workplace
Inclusion in the workplace is defined as the extent to which individuals perceive that they are part of significant processes in organizations. This article explores the determinants of workplace inclusion by asking: How does the demographic composition of social networks inside and outside of the workplace affect perceived inclusion in the workplace? We apply literature on social identity theory and social network theory to develop and test hypo…
Covid-19 and the academy
Much of the available evidence regarding COVID-19 effects on the scientific community in the U.S. is anecdotal and non-representative. We report findings from a based survey of university-based biologists, biochemists, and civil and environmental engineers regarding negative and positive COVID-19 impacts, respondent contributions to addressing the pandemic, and their opinions regarding COVID-19 research policies. The most common negative impact w…
Power of social relations
The effects of electronic alert letters for internet surveys of academic scientists
Navigating the labyrinth
Tension in democratic administration
The tension between bureaucratic and democratic values has characterized significant debates in the field of public administration. In this article, we ask, does public managers' confidence in their organizational administrative capacity affect citizen participation? Using managerial confidence in organizational response capacity (ORC) during crises as a vehicle to investigate the tension between democratic and administrative values, we examine w…
Extreme weather, public transport ridership and moderating effect of bus stop shelters
Public Organization Adaptation to Extreme Events
The study responds to the growing call for a more systematic approach to research on organizational responses to extreme events. It develops and tests an integrated framework based on the organizational adaptation and learning theory to shed light on how public organizations manage exposure and vulnerability to extreme events. The analysis uses data from a 2016 national survey of top managers in the largest fixed-route public transit agencies in …
Differential Social Network Effects on Scholarly Productivity
Academic productivity is realized through resources obtained from professional networks in which scientists are embedded. Using a national survey of academic faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields across multiple institution types, we examine how the structure of professional networks affects scholarly productivity and how those effects may differ by race, ethnicity, and gender. We find that network size masks …
Network exploration and exploitation
The implementation of the Nagoya ABS Protocol for the research sector
Determinants of data sharing in U.S. city governments
Technology in government
Linking Citizen Satisfaction with E-Government and Trust in Government
This article asks how Internet use, citizen satisfaction with e-government, and citizen trust in government are interrelated. We first review the literature on trust and explore how radical information technologies may work to alter the production or maintenance of trust. We then develop hypotheses about how citizens' experience with e-government, satisfaction with e-government and government Web sites, and trust in government are interrelated. M…
Developing and Testing a Theoretical Framework for Computer‐Mediated Transparency of Local Governments
This article contributes to the emerging literature on transparency by developing and empirically testing a theoretical framework that explains the determinants of local government Web site transparency. It aims to answer the following central question: What institutional factors determine the different dimensions of government transparency? The framework distinguishes three dimensions of transparency—decision making transparency, policy informat…
Does E‐Government Promote Accountability? A Comparative Analysis of Website Openness and Government Accountability
Under the global pressure of information technology, the adoption of web‐based technologies in public administration has created a new government‐and‐citizen interface. However, whether e‐government will unambiguously lead to a more transparent, interactive, open and hence, accountable, government remains a central question. Applying a framework of global pressure effects on bureaucratic change, this paper conducts an empirical study on website o…
Social media use in local government
Public Administration in a Global Context
Public bureaucracies operate increasingly in a global environment that requires greater communication and cooperation among nations. This globalization of public administration has highlighted the parochial nature of much of the literature, which was written to apply to one nation or to a small group of similar countries. When literature that was designed for the West or for Europe is applied to non-Western nations, it rarely fits well, exaggerat…
The relationship between transparent and participative government
The relationship between transparency and participation of government is not well articulated in the literature. Transparency provides stakeholders with knowledge about the processes, structures and products of government. Participation refers to the quantity, quality and diversity of input of stakeholders into government decision-making. Greater transparency and participation are often considered to operate side by side. However, in the Internet…
Civic Generation
One of the chief explanations for the decline of social capital in the United States is the passing of the ‘civic generation’, those who came of age during the Depression and the Second World War. These Americans experienced greater government largesse than previous generations, yet we know little about how public programmes influenced their subsequent involvement in public life. This article draws on policy feedback theory to examine how the edu…
Public Organization Adaptation to Extreme Events
The study responds to the growing call for a more systematic approach to research on organizational responses to extreme events. It develops and tests an integrated framework based on the organizational adaptation and learning theory to shed light on how public organizations manage exposure and vulnerability to extreme events. The analysis uses data from a 2016 national survey of top managers in the largest fixed-route public transit agencies in …
Global Information Technology Pressure and Government Accountability
To what extent and in what ways does the global information technology revolution affect the openness and accountability of public organizations? Adopting a model of the effects of global pressure on public bureaucracy (Welch and Wong 1998) as the theoretical framework, this study combines two streams of research and sources of data-the Cyberspace Policy Research Group‘s (CyPRG) comparative analysis of website openness and Ferrel Heady’s(1996) cl…
E-Government and Bureaucracy
This article examines the interaction between bureaucratic red tape and intranet usage in state human service agencies. We propose a sociotechnical model for the relationship between intranet usage and bureaucratic red tape that takes into account the complexities of causal linkages including bidirectional causal relationships and a range of internal and external influences. This model is tested with data from the National Administrative Studies …
Addressing Fear of Crime in Public Space
Research has identified several factors that affect fear of crime in public space. However, the extent to which gender moderates the effectiveness of fear-reducing measures has received little attention. Using data from the Chicago Transit Authority Customer Satisfaction Survey of 2003, this study aims to understand whether train transit security practices and service attributes affect men and women differently. Findings indicate that, while the …
Technology–Task Coupling
Social media comprises a set of new technologies that enable richer data exchange in highly decentralized, dynamic, and loosely structured versatile virtual environments. Social media technology is expected to enhance participation, learning, and knowledge production in government settings, aligning traditional structural and authority boundaries while also challenging them. We examine the extent to which local governments in the United States ar…
Beyond Stereotypes
Red tape is a significant management challenge, and this article seeks to understand how some managers are able to better cope with it. The authors find that managers with positive work attitudes cope better with personnel constraints as compared to those who have less positive work attitudes. The findings cast doubt on stereotypes depicting public managers as being engaged in aggressive red tape production or slothful permitting of red tape. The…
Factors affecting openness of local government websites
Realized Publicness at Public and Private Research Universities
Although research‐extensive universities in the United States produce similar outcomes—research, teaching, and service—they vary substantially in terms of the publicness of their environments. In this article, the authors adopt a public values framework to examine how regulative, normative/associative, and cultural cognitive components affect realized public outcomes by faculty. Using survey data from a random sample of faculty scientists in six …
The geography of American environmentalism
Determinants of data sharing in U.S. city governments
Extreme weather, public transport ridership and moderating effect of bus stop shelters
Tension in democratic administration
The tension between bureaucratic and democratic values has characterized significant debates in the field of public administration. In this article, we ask, does public managers' confidence in their organizational administrative capacity affect citizen participation? Using managerial confidence in organizational response capacity (ORC) during crises as a vehicle to investigate the tension between democratic and administrative values, we examine w…
Explaining Public Organization Adaptation to Climate Change
Climate change can bring about large-scale irreversible physical impacts and systemic changes in the operating environment of public organizations. Research on preconditions for organizational adaptation to climate change has produced two parallel lines of inquiry, one focusing on macro-level norms, rules, and expectations and the other on meso-level culture, design, and structure within the organization. Drawing on the meta-theory of institution…
Effects of Global Pressures on Public Bureaucracy
This article develops the authors’ existing theoretical framework for comparative analysis into a testable empirical model and shows how the model can be implemented for empirical inquiry through two case studies. According to this framework, the social, economic, and political systems that make up the domestic context act to filter global pressures that cause bureaucratic change. Based on the model, the article develops hypotheses predicting the…
Differential Social Network Effects on Scholarly Productivity
Academic productivity is realized through resources obtained from professional networks in which scientists are embedded. Using a national survey of academic faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields across multiple institution types, we examine how the structure of professional networks affects scholarly productivity and how those effects may differ by race, ethnicity, and gender. We find that network size masks …
Virtual Interactivity Between Government and Citizens
This article considers the current efforts to describe the effect of Internet–based technology on interactivity between citizens and public organizations to be incomplete and poorly linked. Based on a multidisciplinary review of the literature, the authors develop a theoretical model of cyber–interactivity and propositions about how virtual communication between citizens and bureaucrats may effect change in organizations, communities, and the rel…
Technology in government
Determinants of cyber-incidents among small and medium US cities
Public Administration in a Global Context
Public bureaucracies operate increasingly in a global environment that requires greater communication and cooperation among nations. This globalization of public administration has highlighted the parochial nature of much of the literature, which was written to apply to one nation or to a small group of similar countries. When literature that was designed for the West or for Europe is applied to non-Western nations, it rarely fits well, exaggerat…
Books
Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies, and the Public Relations Industry, by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton Greenwash: The Reality behind Corporate Environ‐mentalism, by Jed Greer and Kenny Bruno
Implementation of environmental policy in the Katowice administrative region
While Poland has established some of the most ambitious environmental standards in the world and significant environmental improvements have been noted in the literature, there remains a substantial gap between regulation and implementation. This paper first examines in detail one environmental hot spot in Poland — Katowice Province — to provide evidence that despite significant reductions in air emissions by large firms, pollution levels remain …
The geography of American environmentalism
Voluntary behavior by electric utilities
No Abstact
Effects of Global Pressures on Public Bureaucracy
This article develops the authors’ existing theoretical framework for comparative analysis into a testable empirical model and shows how the model can be implemented for empirical inquiry through two case studies. According to this framework, the social, economic, and political systems that make up the domestic context act to filter global pressures that cause bureaucratic change. Based on the model, the article develops hypotheses predicting the…
Global Information Technology Pressure and Government Accountability
To what extent and in what ways does the global information technology revolution affect the openness and accountability of public organizations? Adopting a model of the effects of global pressure on public bureaucracy (Welch and Wong 1998) as the theoretical framework, this study combines two streams of research and sources of data-the Cyberspace Policy Research Group‘s (CyPRG) comparative analysis of website openness and Ferrel Heady’s(1996) cl…
Reappraising Institutional Contributions to the Efficiency of Environmental Policy
Books reviewed in this article:Lawrence S. Rothenberg, Environmental Choices: Policy Responses to Green DemandsDavid M. Driesen, The Economic Dynamics of Environmental Law
Linking Citizen Satisfaction with E-Government and Trust in Government
This article asks how Internet use, citizen satisfaction with e-government, and citizen trust in government are interrelated. We first review the literature on trust and explore how radical information technologies may work to alter the production or maintenance of trust. We then develop hypotheses about how citizens' experience with e-government, satisfaction with e-government and government Web sites, and trust in government are interrelated. M…
Does E‐Government Promote Accountability? A Comparative Analysis of Website Openness and Government Accountability
Under the global pressure of information technology, the adoption of web‐based technologies in public administration has created a new government‐and‐citizen interface. However, whether e‐government will unambiguously lead to a more transparent, interactive, open and hence, accountable, government remains a central question. Applying a framework of global pressure effects on bureaucratic change, this paper conducts an empirical study on website o…
Civic Generation
One of the chief explanations for the decline of social capital in the United States is the passing of the ‘civic generation’, those who came of age during the Depression and the Second World War. These Americans experienced greater government largesse than previous generations, yet we know little about how public programmes influenced their subsequent involvement in public life. This article draws on policy feedback theory to examine how the edu…
Virtual Interactivity Between Government and Citizens
This article considers the current efforts to describe the effect of Internet–based technology on interactivity between citizens and public organizations to be incomplete and poorly linked. Based on a multidisciplinary review of the literature, the authors develop a theoretical model of cyber–interactivity and propositions about how virtual communication between citizens and bureaucrats may effect change in organizations, communities, and the rel…
Beyond Stereotypes
Red tape is a significant management challenge, and this article seeks to understand how some managers are able to better cope with it. The authors find that managers with positive work attitudes cope better with personnel constraints as compared to those who have less positive work attitudes. The findings cast doubt on stereotypes depicting public managers as being engaged in aggressive red tape production or slothful permitting of red tape. The…
E-Government and Bureaucracy
This article examines the interaction between bureaucratic red tape and intranet usage in state human service agencies. We propose a sociotechnical model for the relationship between intranet usage and bureaucratic red tape that takes into account the complexities of causal linkages including bidirectional causal relationships and a range of internal and external influences. This model is tested with data from the National Administrative Studies …
Joint environmental and cost efficiency analysis of electricity generation
Addressing Fear of Crime in Public Space
Research has identified several factors that affect fear of crime in public space. However, the extent to which gender moderates the effectiveness of fear-reducing measures has received little attention. Using data from the Chicago Transit Authority Customer Satisfaction Survey of 2003, this study aims to understand whether train transit security practices and service attributes affect men and women differently. Findings indicate that, while the …
Developing and Testing a Theoretical Framework for Computer‐Mediated Transparency of Local Governments
This article contributes to the emerging literature on transparency by developing and empirically testing a theoretical framework that explains the determinants of local government Web site transparency. It aims to answer the following central question: What institutional factors determine the different dimensions of government transparency? The framework distinguishes three dimensions of transparency—decision making transparency, policy informat…
Realized Publicness at Public and Private Research Universities
Although research‐extensive universities in the United States produce similar outcomes—research, teaching, and service—they vary substantially in terms of the publicness of their environments. In this article, the authors adopt a public values framework to examine how regulative, normative/associative, and cultural cognitive components affect realized public outcomes by faculty. Using survey data from a random sample of faculty scientists in six …
The relationship between transparent and participative government
The relationship between transparency and participation of government is not well articulated in the literature. Transparency provides stakeholders with knowledge about the processes, structures and products of government. Participation refers to the quantity, quality and diversity of input of stakeholders into government decision-making. Greater transparency and participation are often considered to operate side by side. However, in the Internet…
Potential effects of the Nagoya Protocol on the exchange of non-plant genetic resources for scientific research
Social media use in local government
Technology in government
Factors affecting openness of local government websites
Technology–Task Coupling
Social media comprises a set of new technologies that enable richer data exchange in highly decentralized, dynamic, and loosely structured versatile virtual environments. Social media technology is expected to enhance participation, learning, and knowledge production in government settings, aligning traditional structural and authority boundaries while also challenging them. We examine the extent to which local governments in the United States ar…
The implementation of the Nagoya ABS Protocol for the research sector
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