TY - JOUR
T1 - Remaking transportation organizations for the 21st century
T2 - Consortia and the value of organizational learning
AU - Gifford, Jonathan L.
AU - Stalebrink, Odd J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the support of Roger Stough and The School of Public Policy at George Mason University for the research reported in this paper. Three anonymous referees also provided valuable suggestions for improving the paper. Any remaining errors are the responsibility of the authors. The authors presented an early version of this paper at the 78th annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board in January 1999 at a session organized by the Committee on Strategic Management.
PY - 2002/8
Y1 - 2002/8
N2 - The US faces a number of important issues in the way it organizes and manages transportation facilities and services. A key issue is how to create organizations that pay attention to customers and focus on results and performance. However, these two organizational characteristics are often difficult to achieve in formal organizations like governments, which are bound by requirements for procedural integrity. This paper examines a way out of this dilemma: transportation organizations can participate in voluntary consortia, which may offer more flexibility and adaptability and facilitate organizational learning. To gain new insights into the potential benefits of voluntary consortia this paper examines two case studies of transportation-related voluntary consortia, taking an organizational learning perspective. It concludes that although further research is needed, consortia may offer many benefits, including their ability to provide a quick, low-threat response to changing conditions.
AB - The US faces a number of important issues in the way it organizes and manages transportation facilities and services. A key issue is how to create organizations that pay attention to customers and focus on results and performance. However, these two organizational characteristics are often difficult to achieve in formal organizations like governments, which are bound by requirements for procedural integrity. This paper examines a way out of this dilemma: transportation organizations can participate in voluntary consortia, which may offer more flexibility and adaptability and facilitate organizational learning. To gain new insights into the potential benefits of voluntary consortia this paper examines two case studies of transportation-related voluntary consortia, taking an organizational learning perspective. It concludes that although further research is needed, consortia may offer many benefits, including their ability to provide a quick, low-threat response to changing conditions.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0965-8564(01)00028-3
DO - 10.1016/S0965-8564(01)00028-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036681012
SN - 0965-8564
VL - 36
SP - 645
EP - 657
JO - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
JF - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
IS - 7
ER -