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Wilson's agency typology: a standalone construct

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Public administration

a classification of government agencies by whether managers can observe their workers' outputs and outcomes, yielding production, procedural, craft and coping agencies.

In public administration, Wilson's agency typology refers to a classification of government agencies by whether managers can observe their workers' outputs and outcomes, yielding production, procedural, craft and coping agencies. This meaning comes from Wilson (1989) in Bureaucracy: what government agencies do and why they do it.[1]

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agency6 fields · 12 citationsjingle · one name, six constructsbureaucracy3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, an efficiency claim and its oppositecoping1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

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  1. Wilson, J. Q. (1989). Bureaucracy: what government agencies do and why they do it. Basic Books. ISBN 9780465007851

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