eprintid: 221139
rev_number: 5
eprint_status: archive
userid: 958
dir: disk0/00/22/11/39
datestamp: 2025-07-16 04:45:32
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type: article
metadata_visibility: show
contact_email: belenyesi.emese@uni-nke.hu
sword_depositor: 958
creators_name: Belényesi, Emese
creators_name: Dobos, Ágota
creators_orcid: 0000-0002-4865-6629
creators_orcid: 
corp_creators: Közszervezési és Infotechnológiai Tanszék NKE / ÁNTK KIT [2019-]
corp_creators: Idegennyelvi Oktató- és Kutatóközpont BCE IOK [2003-]
title: Formal or Informal? : The Changing Role of Coordination in Local Government Decision Making in Hungary
ispublished: pub
subjects: JF1338
full_text_status: public
keywords: formal and informal decision-making process; coordination
abstract: Top-down formal decision-making approach traditionally prevails in the organizational culture of
Hungarian public administration, but the informal approaches could undoubtedly increase the
efficiency of decisions. While formal decision making is supposed to strictly follow the procedures
and methods prescribed by law, the informal ones could considerably speed up the process. This
dichotomy poses the question: “To what extent can the often-preferred informal ways of
coordination deviate from their formal counterparts?” It is the intent of our exploratory research
to seek responses to this question by invoking grounded theory. The study is based on the findings
of the nation-wide research project in which Emese Belenyesi was one of the lead researchers.
Findings shows that if informal methods are used in local decision making, they are ultimately
channelled into the standard formal procedures, thus facilitating formal decision making rather
than separating them from it, however they considerably increase its efficiency.
date: 2020
date_type: published
publication: KOŠICKÁ BEZPEČNOSTNÁ REVUE
volume: 10
number: 2
pagerange: 1-16
id_number: MTMT:31830729
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1338-4880
official_url: http://www.vsbm.sk/revue.html
fp7_project: no
fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
citation:   Belényesi, Emese and Dobos, Ágota  (2020) Formal or Informal? : The Changing Role of Coordination in Local Government Decision Making in Hungary.  KOŠICKÁ BEZPEČNOSTNÁ REVUE, 10 (2).  pp. 1-16.  ISSN 1338-4880     
document_url: https://real.mtak.hu/221139/1/FormalorInformalTheChangingRoleofCoordinationinLocalGovernmentDecisionMakinginHungary.pdf