Red Tape or Green Tape？ Examining the Administrative Problems Regarding non-MOST Government Projects in the University

• Main Authors: Chang, Wen-Feng, 張文峰
• Other Authors: 黃東益
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/es7hs9

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 公共行政學系 === 107 === Evolving expectations of government performances from modern societies have resulted in government relying more and more on universities to accomplish various policy objectives related to diverse issues. In the past, although there were a lot of researches on government contracting out or on public private partnerships, few studies have touched upon government-university cooperation on non-Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) projects, especially from the perspectives of front line research assistants This study mainly adopts grounded theory and in-depth interviews to answer it’s research question. Grounded theory is utilized in the organizing of the issue background and in the understanding of the interviewee. Data obtained from in-depth interviews are processed with Barry Bozeman’s red tape and DeHart Davis L’s green tape concepts to generate a comprehensive response to the research question. In addition, as per suggestions from interviewees, this article has also compared five universities’ rules, processes and website contents on non-MOST government projects. Results derived from these comparisons contribute toward developing concrete suggestions for the reduction of administrative burdens. Results revealed that timing and scheduling decisions have a significant impact on university and research assistant’s approach to the project being commissioned. A hasty government project schedule would result in many areas of the project not being fully realized. On the other hand, for administrative norms, unwritten or ambiguous rules should be reduced as they can thereby lead to ever-increasing red tape. When confronted with repetitive or ill-fitting regulations, administrative staffs (regulators) and research assistants would default to performing unnecessary and superficial tasks in their interactions, all in order to fulfill compliance burdens, sapping additional research resources and time. In addition, the government should categorize each rule and relation as either in need of modification. The university should strengthen the authorization, decentralization and information systems. The former can make the administrative process shorter, and the latter can result in increased information integration to improve administrative efficiency. Finally, university and research teams should establish good training mechanisms to enhance information exchanges and stakeholders’ cooperation. This study mainly adopts grounded theory and in-depth interviews to answer it’s research question. Grounded theory is utilized in the organizing of the issue background and in the understanding of the interviewee. Data obtained from in-depth interviews are processed with Barry Bozeman’s red tape and DeHart Davis L’s green tape concepts to generate a comprehensive response to the research question. In addition, as per suggestions from interviewees, this article has also compared five universities’ rules, processes and website contents on non-MOST government projects. Results derived from these comparisons contribute toward developing concrete suggestions for the reduction of administrative burdens. Results revealed that timing and scheduling decisions have a significant impact on university and research assistant’s approach to the project being commissioned. A hasty government project schedule would result in many areas of the project not being fully realized. On the other hand, for administrative norms, unwritten or ambiguous rules should be reduced as they can thereby lead to ever-increasing red tape. When confronted with repetitive or ill-fitting regulations, administrative staffs (regulators) and research assistants would default to performing unnecessary and superficial tasks in their interactions, all in order to fulfill compliance burdens, sapping additional research resources and time. In addition, the government should categorize each rule and relation as either in need of modification. The university should strengthen the authorization, decentralization and information systems. The former can make the administrative process shorter, and the latter can result in increased information integration to improve administrative efficiency. Finally, university and research teams should establish good training mechanisms to enhance information exchanges and stakeholders’ cooperation.