Bureaucracy and networks : the politics of career mobility in large organizational systems
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Career mobility in state bureaucracy is an important topic with key implications for policy, development, and labor market dynamics. Existing literature on organizations emphasizes the importance of experience and network connections, whereas careers develop as linear progression in internal labor markets. The standard theories, however, commonly suffer from three issues. First, whereas network research focuses on static effects of connections, I point out the dynamic impacts of connections: the same tie that used to bring career benefits can carry inherent risks in an evolving authority structure. Second, whereas the assumption of linear job ladders prevails in internal labor market theories, I find that such functional ladders rarely exist in large bureaucracies. Third, one of the most challenging issues in organizational research is the limited scope condition, as studies typically focus on a single market or institutional setting. Using unique administrative data from the state bureaucracy of China and the Indian Administrative Service, I tackle these theoretical problems with novel empirical strategies, combining techniques from network analysis, quasi-experiment, and stochastic models. The findings challenge the standard theories, bringing out the contextual variations between organizations in different political systems.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lu, Qinglian |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Walder, Andrew G. (Andrew George), 1953- |
| Degree supervisor | Zhou, Xueguang, 1959- |
| Thesis advisor | Walder, Andrew G. (Andrew George), 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Zhou, Xueguang, 1959- |
| Thesis advisor | Jackson, Matthew O |
| Thesis advisor | Powell, Walter W |
| Degree committee member | Jackson, Matthew O |
| Degree committee member | Powell, Walter W |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Qinglian Lu. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Qinglian Lu
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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