Organizational centralization in court administration: An empirical assessment

Data gathered from a national survey of court managers are used to examine the centralized versus decentralized perspectives recently developed in organizational theories of court administration. Two areas are examined in the research: administrative decision making and job formalization. Utilizing...

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Autores principales: Taggart, William A. (Autor) ; Mays, G. Larry (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 1987
En: American journal of criminal justice
Año: 1987, Volumen: 11, Número: 2, Páginas: 180-198
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Palabras clave:
Judicial Treatment
Administrative Responsibility
Administrative Duty
Administrative Task
Organizational Theory
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Sumario:Data gathered from a national survey of court managers are used to examine the centralized versus decentralized perspectives recently developed in organizational theories of court administration. Two areas are examined in the research: administrative decision making and job formalization. Utilizing discriminant analysis, it appears that few states are dominated by a single management approach, and that in all likelihood the local norms and values influence the ways in which the courts are managed.
ISSN:1936-1351
DOI:10.1007/BF02885655