Does the Motivation for Market‐Based Reform Matter? The Case of Responsibility‐Centered Management
研究美国大学采用责任中心管理（RCM）这一市场化预算系统的动因及其对毕业率和学位产出的影响，发现使命、资源依赖和政党控制影响采纳，而RCM提升了白人学生毕业率和STEM学位产出，引发公平性问题。
Abstract Organizational theorists have long examined the implications of market‐oriented policies for public agencies. Current research often aims to understand the effects of policies imposed on organizations by external stakeholder groups, but few studies have attempted to gain a better understanding of what mechanisms cause agencies to select into these strategies. The purpose of this article is to understand, first, which factors make an organization more likely to adopt a decentralized, market‐based budgeting system—termed “responsibility‐centered management (RCM)—and, second, whether this type of system has implications for organizational performance. Using data on doctorate‐granting public and private nonprofit four‐year universities in the United States, the authors find that mission, resource dependence, and state party control influence the take‐up of RCM. In terms of effects, RCM creates winners for graduation rates (white students) and degree production (science, technology, engineering, and math departments), which raises questions of equity across groups .