Untangling the Relationship Between Red Tape and Job Satisfaction: The Role of Self‐Efficacy and High‐Individualistic Culture.
Although red tape remains a significant policy concern and despite meta‐analytical research showing that it impacts employee and performance outcomes, research elucidating why and under which conditions it does so remains scarce. Using social cognitive theory, we first hypothesize that the relations...
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 85; no. 6; pp. 1723 - 1738 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov/Dec2025
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