🎉 We're pleased to announce that on 1 October, @profgeorgebert.bsky.social (City University of Hong Kong) will join Prof Stephen Osborne as Co-Editor in Chief of Public Management Review. Bert has been Deputy Editor since 2024 @tandfresearch.bsky.social files.taylorandfrancis.com/rpxm-announc...

Special issue: editors Yuhao Ba, Sounman Hong and Jungyeon Park invite submissions that examine how digital transitions influence one or more of the three Es - efficiency, effectiveness, and equity - in non-Western contexts Abstracts due 30 September think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Open access: Anna-Aurora Kork, @hennapaananen.bsky.social, Laura Kihlström & @dostynkkynen.bsky.social explore cooperation within governance networks, focusing on the interactional dynamics that shaped horizontal policymaking during pandemic governance www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Maria Vittoria Bufali, Simone Manfredi, Raffaella Saporito & Elisabetta Notarnicola highlight three enabling factors of public sector innovation maintenance in a progressively more institutionalized context: multi-dimensionality, consistency, and insulation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Alex Ingrams and Sarah Giest explore how stress points in public value creation influence the adoption of algorithmic technologies, and what specific public values trade off as a result www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New #OpenAccess in Public Management Review “When data doubles narrate asylum: the agency of government officials and asylum applicants in datafied asylum procedures” Together w/ #RianneDekker, @koenleurs.bsky.social, #DjamilaSchans & @albertalisalah.bsky.social Link doi.org/10.1080/1471...

Only one day left! All #ASPA2026 proposals are due by tomorrow at midnight! Get yours in now! www.aspanet.org/annu...

Maria Cucciniello, Daniela Cristofoli, Marta Micacchi, Benedetta Trivellato & Giovanni Valotti show how robust solutions for addressing turbulence can arise from the combination of seemingly opposing paradigms, such as the pragmatist and rational approaches www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jiayuan Li, Manqian Cui, Zhenjie Yang & Jiansong Zheng suggest that account-holders can mitigate blame by punishing account-givers; results show that punishment reduces blame toward account-holders, with substantive sanctions more effective than reputational ones www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Mads Thau, @annemettekjeldsen.bsky.social, Jakob Majlund Holm & Bente Bjørnholt theorise and investigate why teamwork attitudes in functionally diverse teams are sometimes negative www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nora Albrecht, Sanja Korac, Iris Saliterer and Ileana Steccolini use a survey experiment to examine how citizens attribute responsibility for public service outcomes and subsequently form judgements about rewards and sanctions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jinsol Park, Dongjin Oh & Donwe Choi explore factors influencing adoption of AI-based personnel selection in public orgs, finding that orgs tend to adopt AI innovations when they are less visible to external stakeholders and align with existing hiring procedures www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Using a case study of Norway’s Labour and Welfare Administration, Marie Rønshaugen, Siv Fladsrud Magnussen and Mette Sønderskov analyse how six power bases impact value co-creation between between street-level bureaucrats and young adults www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: John Salazar and Petr Matous of @projects-usyd.bsky.social draw on institutional bricolage and social network analysis to examine the interplays between institutional variables in 69 public-private partnership markets www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jan Wynen, @jnbn89.bsky.social and Dries Van Doninck find evidence of an information-sharing paradox, showing that information can become a hindrance during complex workplace changes, heightening stress levels www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Martin Kitchener & Rachel Ashworth extend the recent practice turn in public management strategy scholarship, providing a detailed explanation of who (practitioners), how (praxis), & what (practices) of public value strategizing in public service orgs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Kyungmin Lee and @andrewasullivan.bsky.social use the case of the Employment and Welfare Plus Center in South Korea to examine how digitally induced task integration into a one-stop shop relates to user outcomes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Read the full article here: lnkd.in/endp-r9v #Research #PublicManagement #PPP #Collaboration #PhDResearch #PublicManagementReview www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to our PhD student John Sebastian Salazar Florez and his supervisor Associate Professor Petr Matous on their paper in Public Management Review on public-private partnership (PPP) projects.

Open access: Margit Ernst uses ethnographic methods to explore the impact of stewardship management on policy-practice alignment, finding that when stewardship management facilitates street-level accountability practices, it can enhance alignment www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nanna Møller Mortensen, @caitlinmcmullin.bsky.social and Jacob Brix develop a model of organizational learning and co-production mainstreaming, which considers how co-production can be institutionalized and then mainstreamed through co-production culture www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Xin Chen and @andrewasullivan.bsky.social examine the influence of increased local autonomy from home rule on local governments’ economic development collaboration, finding that autonomy increases participation in interlocal collaboration www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Marketization in public & nonprofit services, driven by New Public Management (NPM) thinking, has normalized lean staffing & outsourcing. Efficiency is the promise. But what happens to mission-driven work & public value when the market logic dominates? 🧵 1/

How can professionals’ VCC skills be developed to improve their capacity to identify and leverage the unique needs of individual service users? Check out our new paper in @pmreview.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #cocreation #publicservicelogic @uniinnlandet.bsky.social

Qing Miao, Yunshu Wang and Jinhao Huang examine the implications of corporate sponsorship on volunteer service outcomes - suggesting that it induces role conflict among volunteers, with detrimental outcomes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Menno Hoppen, Max Huber and Havard Aaslund outline enabling conditions for sustained co-production relating to five themes - program structure, professional support, organizational backing, active external ties, and enduring mutual commitment www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hala Altamimi and Qiaozhen Liu analyse a decade of panel data on non-profits in the US, showing that flexible labour negatively influences operational outcomes - particularly when these workers are involved in core organizational functions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jane Roberts and Jean Hartley present a systematic review of the politics/adminstration dichotomy and policing - how senior police officers work with elected politicians in the UK and other Westminster-system countries www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to share our new publication in @pmreview.bsky.social , demonstrating how situated learning can be an effective tool in professionals’ training on value cocreation skills and methods and thereby can foster value facilitation. @uniinnlandet.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We found, somewhat surprisingly, that there is a remarkable degree of the convergence between these two groups, notwithstanding the obvious institutional and historical differences. DGs and DMs gravitate towards a relational-administrative managerial style.

But ,we can think of these folks on a matrix of their goals and their managerial approach and try to make sense of their approaches.

We surveyed Deputy Ministers 🇨🇦 and Directors General 🇮🇹 and organized their time in 4 main 'baskets' (Strategic, Administrative, Structural and Relational) based on their answers. Administration (approving & reviewing, anyone?) still drains most of their time.

Just out: our latest article in Open Access with @pmreview.bsky.social on how top public servants in 🇨🇦 & 🇮🇹 use their time and what that means for executive management styles. PS: there's lots more (who they meet, what they do to keep current, etc.) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jesse Campbell, Emma Northcott and Sanjay Pandey conduct a realist review of 104 articles, identifying eight mechanisms that shape social justice outcomes based on implementation context variation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jesse Campbell, Emma Northcott and Sanjay Pandey conduct a realist review of 104 articles, identifying eight mechanisms that shape social justice outcomes based on implementation context variation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Menno Hoppen, Taco Brandsen & Marlies Honingh investigate the conditions enabling vulnerable citizens’ involvement in co‐production through an ethnographic study of a self‐managed homeless shelter - which challenges traditional provider‐led approaches www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Chengyan Pu and Yonghua Zou introduce a network narrative to examine the logics underlying inter-city entrepreneurial activities, proposing a three-level framework to analyse the effects of political and market logics in government-led inter-city investments www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Susan Schwarz, Gary Schwarz, Zhou Jiang, Qing Miao & Alexander Newman use job demands-resources theory to examine the effect of job demands on the commitment of volunteers & the extent to which resilience and job autonomy mediate & moderate this link www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Anmol Soni, Evan Mistur and @mbemidy.bsky.social find that while professionalism is linked to increased work engagement, higher procedural justice, and lower turnover intention, this is weaker in agencies with higher shares of political appointees www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Two updates from PMR: First, we have increased our abstract length from 100 to 150! This will help authors highlight their contributions. Second, authors can now elect to submit an abstract in their native language. See more detail on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/bert-g...

Jianxing Yu, Junxing Wang & Biao Huang find that organizational factors, particularly governors’ characteristics and government size, influence innovation generation - but innovation borrowing is affected by environmental and organizational factors www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Timo Meynhardt, Jessica Bardeli, Fabian Christandl and Maximilian Feser find that public value-related need fulfilment fosters the long-term development of flow, sequentially mediated by purpose- and self-efficacy-related implicit beliefs www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Analysing 1,346 Dutch public tenders, Ruben Nicolas and Fredo Schotanus explore the applicability of legitimacy theory to explain how the visibility of procurement actions affects sustainable public procurement efforts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What types of papers are we looking for, and what makes a theoretical contribution? In a video for Chinese social media, Deputy Editor @profgeorgebert.bsky.social discusses these issues and more. Thanks to A/Editor Rui Mu for the interview! mp.weixin.qq.com/s/azQ7e21cuU...

Through four survey experiments with US adults, Hung-Yi Hsu investigates whether and how operational transparency matters in the public sector, and discusses the implications for government transparency and performance communication www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Bin Guan and Pinggui Gao integrate social network analysis, machine learning, and data envelopment analysis to explore how leadership transfer networks affect the low-carbon governance of local governments in China www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💥 Happy to share this new paper with Koen Verhoest in Public Management Review @pmreview.bsky.social ! What conditions contribute to building trust in services with high levels of opacity, information asymmetries, and vulnerable users? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lilia Minaya, Milena Neshkova and Alexander Kroll draw on 16-year panel data re performance-based funding in US higher education, challenging the belief that performance models remain either static or become more rigid over time www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: @mjinpedersen.bsky.social, Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen, @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social & Jonas Krogh Madsen consider how priming of caseworkers’ agency orientation (citizen-agent vs state-agent) influences their conduct towards clients www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Glenn Houtgraaf and Rick T. Borst explore whether and how bureaucratic dimensions relate to public servants’ intrinsic motivation, paying attention to self-determination for explaining underlying psychological mechanisms, and the moderating role of age www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....