Hierarchies and bureaucracies by Tirole, Jean

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War Upon the Map: The Politics of Military User Innovation by Lindsay, Jon R.

“…This paper finds that while user innovation theory can explain aspects of the emergence and diffusion of military user innovation, existing theory understates the challenges involved with generating and sustaining user innovation within a complex bureaucracy. Successfully innovating users must be creative with organizational as well as technical resources.…”
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Do stated goals matter? : regional institutions in East Asia and the dynamic of unstated goals by Deepak Nair

“…Besides the existence of ambiguous goals, a rich historical experience of institutional isomorphism and the evidence of “decoupling”, these institutions are not rational organizations—despite their claims to “concrete actions” and “efficiency” in organizational discourse—because of the absence of discrete Weberian bureaucracies, which, in turn, makes them vicariously live off the organizational apparatus of national bureaucracies. …”
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Corruption by Banerjee, Abhijit, Hanna, Rema, Mullainathan, Sendhil

“…In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and stricter penalties with the eradication of corruption as the final goal. …”
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