Beyond Stereotypes
A Multistage Model of Managerial Perceptions of Red Tape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11104918 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sanjay K Pandey (0000-0003-1005-0274, Rutgers University, Campus at Camden, corresponding author), Eric W Welch (0000-0003-1902-0370, University of Illinois Chicago) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 542-575 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Administration & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-3997 • E-ISSN: 1552-3039 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0095399705278594 |
| OpenAlex | W2103901412 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 60 |
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 authors conclude by suggesting that future research should steer away from relegating study of red tape to the realm of negative stereotypes. Instead, managerial and organizational responses to red tape should be studied as part of the normal
Business · Political science · Public relations · Realm · Sociology · Work (physics · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Organizational Effectiveness and Bureaucratic Red Tape
Stakeholder Red Tape
Organizational Pathology Compared to What? Impacts of Job Characteristics and Career Trajectory on Perceptions of Organizational Red Tape
Regulatory Red Tape and Private Firm Performance
Beyond the Rules
Resigned but Satisfied
Explaining Variation in Perceptions of Red Tape
The costs and benefits of ‘red tape’
Understanding Affective Organizational Commitment
Sector Imprinting
Content Domain, Measurement, and Validity of the Red Tape Concept
Public Service Motivation Measurement
The Effects of Work Alienation and Policy Alienation on Behavior of Public Employees
Red Tape, Rule Legitimacy, and Public Service Motivation
Deconstructing Public Administration Empiricism
External control mechanisms and red tape
Increasing the cost of participation
Emotional Responses to Bureaucratic Red Tape
Cutback Management and the Paradox of Publicness
Exploring Public Sector Communication Performance
Thick Red Tape and the Thin Blue Line
An Organizational Echelon Analysis of the Determinants of Red Tape in Public Organizations
Feeling out’ the rules
The Role of Organizations in Fostering Public Service Motivation
Red Tape, Organizational Performance, and Employee Outcomes
Pursuing Consilience
Effects of Managers' Work Motivation and Networking Activity on Their Reported Levels of External Red Tape
Sampling Designs for Analyzing Publicness
Organizational Confidence
Personnel Flexibility and Red Tape in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Work alienation
Red tape, its origins, uses, and abuses
Handbook of organizational behavior
The case for bureaucracy
The Contingency Theory of Organizations
Taming the Bureaucracy
Inside Bureaucracy
Red Tape and Public Service Motivation
Complex organizations
Readings in Attitude Theory and Measurement
Organizations
Assessing State Efforts to Meet Baby Boomers' Long-Term Care Needs
Routine Technology, Social Structure, and Organization Goals
Public-Sector Work Motivation
Red Tape
Examining red tape in public and private organizations
The influence of red tape on bureaucratic behavior
Bureaucratic Red Tape and Formalization
Perceptions of Public versus Private Sector Personnel and Informal Red Tape
Job Satisfaction In The Public Sector
Uncertainty, Participation and Alienation
Public Agencies and Private Firms
Red Tape and Task Delays in Public and Private Organizations
Bureaucratic Role Characteristics and Member Affective Response in Organizations
Research Note
The Elements of Public Administration
The Property Right Paradigm
Management Information Systems in Public and Private Organizations
Risk Culture in Public and Private Organizations
The “Publicness Puzzle” in Organization Theory
Red Tape and Clean Air
Work Motivation in the Senior Executive Service
Goals, Rules, and Effectiveness in Public, Private, and Hybrid Organizations
The Impact of Red Tape's Administrative Delay on Public Organizations' Interest in New Information Technologies
Why Must We Reinvent the Federal Government? Putting Historical Developmental Claims to the Test
A Theory Of Government “Red Tape
Red Tape and Public Employees
Ethical Work Climates
Examining Red Tape in Public and Private Organizations
"Organizational Rules and the "Bureaucratic Personality
Organizational Alienation
Professionalization and Bureaucratization
Professionals in Bureaucracy
Elements of Public Administration
Bureaucratic Structure and Personality
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2023 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |