Blockchain for Project and Construction Management; A Systematic and Scoping Literature Review by Samereh Jadidoleslami, Mojtaba Azizi

“…Implementing blockchain eliminates project management bureaucracies and allows a single, unchangeable, controllable, and encrypted source to be accessible to everybody and extensible throughout the project life cycle. …”
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Why Government and Non-Governmental Policies and Projects Fail Despite ‘Evaluations’: An Indicator to Measure whether Evaluation Systems Incorporate the Rules of Good Governance... by David H. Lempert

“…Purpose: The article offers an easy-to-use indicator for measuring whether organizational evaluation policies for government and non-governmental organization spending actually protect the public interest in line with good governance and management principles or whether they serve, instead, to protect bureaucracies and hide wrongdoing under the cover of an “outside” evaluation. …”
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Corruption and the Challenges of Good Governance in the Nigerian Public Sector by Jacob Olufemi Fatile

“…The article therefore recommends the need for greater transparency in the management of public funds by the public office holders as well as the need for political will and commitment from governments at Federal, State and Local, including bureaucracies at various levels of governance in the country. …”
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The adoption of the HPV vaccine school-entry requirement in Puerto Rico: How practical lessons can inform future vaccine policies by C. Vázquez-Otero, E. Lockhart

“…Participants recommended considering the local culture and government bureaucracies, and promoting multisectoral collaborations to combine limited resources. …”
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The Effect of Work Envy on Employees' Deviant Behavior by Ali Nasre Esfahani, parisa heidari

“…In today's organizations, considering the bureaucracies and the competitive atmosphere that exists, attention to the feelings of people, especially the feeling of jealousy at work is of particular importance. …”
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Challenges and solutions for implementing telemedicine in Iran from health policymakers’ perspective by Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini, Shiva Abdolahnejad Boushehri, Khalil Alimohammadzadeh

“…These challenges include policy weaknesses, uncertainty around operating mechanisms, inadequate communication and telecommunication infrastructure, insufficient cultural infrastructure, lack of electronic requirements, redundant bureaucracies, legal gaps, and economic factors. Furthermore, four key solutions to these challenges were identified. …”
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The Merit Selection Processes in the Senior Management of the Portuguese Public Administration: Myth or Reality?/O Mérito nos Processos de Seleção da Alta Direção da Administração... by João Bilhim

“…However, the literature on administrative reform presents enough evidence of the resilience of institutional bureaucracies to change. It turns out that the NPM would assert itself as a standard recipe without respect for cultural diversity and the various administrations, despite taking over as primer, got different expressions and manifestations. …”
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Why Government and Non-Governmental Policies and Projects Fail Despite ‘Evaluations’: An Indicator to Measure whether Evaluation Systems Incorporate the Rules of Good Governance... by David H. Lempert

“…Purpose: The article offers an easy-to-use indicator for measuring whether organizational evaluation policies for government and non-governmental organization spending actually protect the public interest in line with good governance and management principles or whether they serve, instead, to protect bureaucracies and hide wrongdoing under the cover of an “outside” evaluation. …”
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Synthesizing the economist’s and the psychologist’s approaches to litter control for sustainable waste management by Musa Ilias Biala

“…The economic instruments are costlier than the psychological instruments, because the former cover a larger setting and entail a lot of bureaucracies. To better understand littering and find appropriate solutions to it, studies on littering should consider looking at littering holistically from this interdisciplinary perspective. …”
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Applying Business Process Re-Engi-neering to Public Sector as A New Public Management Strategy: Understanding the Contra Views and Limits by ROPINDER OBEROI

“…<br />Can it be functional for the public sector in attending to frequent problems blockading bureaucracies of developed and<br />developing countries uniformly? …”
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From formal rationality to the digital one: Sideeffects, ambivalences, and vulnerabilities by S. A. Kravchenko

“…The growing formal rationality produced more complex side-effects such as legitimation crisis, colonization of the essential functions of peoples life-worlds, and dependence on legal and administrative bureaucracies. Formal rationality led to ambivalences: rationalization helped people to adapt to the dynamics of social life but also had irrational consequences - achievements in scientific knowledge and technologies advanced beyond moral limits. …”
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Repensando a teoria da proletarização dos profissionais Rethinking the theory of professionals' proletarianization by Marli Diniz

“…The central questions that the author addresses are whether professionals employed by public and private bureaucracies preserve their technical qualifications, and whether they preserve control over their highly specialized knowledge and over their work process. …”
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The weak vs. the strong: African, Caribbean and Pacific countries negotiating free trade agreements with the European Union by Jones, E

“…It also sheds light on the formation of trade preferences in small developing countries and shows that in addition to lobbying by external groups, information and ideas within government bureaucracies appear to play an important role.</p>…”

Good health at low cost 25 years on: Lessons for the future of health systems strengthening by Balabanova, D, Mills, A, Conteh, L, Akkazieva, B, Banteyerga, H, Dash, U, Gilson, L, Harmer, A, Ibraimova, A, Islam, Z, Kidanu, A, Koehlmoos, T, Limwattananon, S, Muraleedharan, V, Murzalieva, G, Palafox, B, Panichkriangkrai, W, Patcharanarumol, W, Penn-Kekana, L, Powell-Jackson, T, Tangcharoensathien, V, McKee, M

“…Attributes of success included good governance and political commitment, eff ective bureaucracies that preserve institutional memory and can learn from experience, and the ability to innovate and adapt to resource limitations. …”

Between sect and state in Lebanon: religious leaders at the interface by Henley, A

“…The project of communal self-governance – which included jurisdiction over personal status law – called for centralized religious institutions that could manage nationwide bureaucracies. Thus a Sunni mufti, Shi'i sheikh, and Druze sheikh al-'aql were each elevated to leadership of new religious hierarchies. …”

Pre-service teachers uses of and barriers from adopting computer-assisted language learning (CALL) programs by Samani, Ebrahim, Baki, Roselan, Mohamed Razali, Abu Bakar

“…These pre-service teachers also believed that the bureaucracies regarding the use of CALL programs at their education institution are the main barrier to the successful implementation of CALL programs. …”
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Proliferation of Local Governments in Indonesia: Identity Politics within a Troubled Nation State by Purwo Santoso

“…Through technocratically equipped bureaucracies the state mobilised certain kinds of discourse that, in turn, defined what was deemed proper under the banner of ethnic and religious solidarity.   …”
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Federalismo y políticas ambientales en la Región Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, Argentina by Ricardo A Gutiérrez

“…It argues that the shortcomings of the metropolitan coordination of environmental policies are explained by the interaction between federal institutions and other political system variables such as the dynamics of party-electoral accumulation, the setting of government agendas, the role of state bureaucracies, and the impact of environmental activism.…”
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Institutional innovation in less than ideal conditions: Management of commons by an Alaska Native village corporation by Dixie Dayo, Gary Kofinas

“…Since the passing of ANSCA, Alaska Natives have cultivated good skills to navigate and modify legal systems and engage bureaucracies with considerable success. More than 36 years after the passage of ANCSA, most Alaska Native homelands remain intact in ways not previously imagined. …”
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State Building, Ethnic Land Titling, and Transnational Organized Crime: The Case of Honduras by Giorleny Altamirano Rayo

“…Existing work on state building focuses on the creation of modern bureaucracies and institutions for education and taxation but generally neglects to point to communal property regimes as tools of statecraft. …”
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