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Reimagining Public Sector Management

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Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management

Series Editors: John Diamond and Joyce Liddle

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• Anthony Cheung

• City University, Hong Kong

• Nathalie Colasanti

• Tor Vergata, Italy

• Ricardo C. Gomes

• University of Brasilia, Brazil

• Hiroko Kudo

• Chuo University, Japan

• Mike Macaulay

• Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

• Muiris MacCarthaigh

• Queens University Belfast, UK

• Marco Meneguzzo

• Tor Vergata University, Italy

• Margaret Stout

• West Virginia University, USA

• Dina Wafa

• The American University of Cairo, Egypt

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Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management Volume 7

Reimagining Public Sector Management: A New Age of Renewal and Renaissance?

Edited by

John Diamond

Edge Hill University, UK

And

Joyce Liddle

Northumbria University, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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About the Contributors

Dr Gareth David Addidle has recently joined the University of Bradford as an Associate Professor in Criminology and Policing and is a Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. A graduate of Glasgow Caledonian University, with a Doctorate from Plymouth University he has held previous academic roles at Open University, Plymouth University, University of Derby and Teesside University. His research and publications are in the areas of vulnerability, policing, governance, community safety and partnership working. Dr Addidle has worked with a number of police services across the UK and has been involved in research projects with Police Scotland (formerly Strathclyde Police), Devon and Cornwall Police, HMICFRS and, more recently, with the Newcastle Business School.

Dr Dane Anderton is a Senior Lecturer in Strategy at The University of Liverpool Management School and Director of ULMS MBA Programmes. His PhD was funded by the ESRC and completed in 2014. The research examined the evolution and agglomeration of the video game and life science industries in the Liverpool City Region alongside Liverpool Vision, an economic development agency. Dane has worked with local and combined authorities in Liverpool and Greater Manchester on projects examining innovation districts and creative sectors hubs. Overall his research focuses on sustainable regional and urban development. Outside academic Dane is a trustee of several charities and third sector organisations.

Professor Anthony B. L. Cheung is currently Research Chair Professor of Public Administration at the Education University of Hong Kong where he was President from 2008 to 2012. He served as Secretary for Transport and Housing of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government from 2012 to 2017. He was a co-founder of the Asian Association of Public Administration and its President (in 2012). Active in public affairs, he had been a legislator, political party vice-chairman, member of the Executive Council and chairman of the Hong Kong Consumer Council. His research focuses on governance, public management, administrative reform, and public policy. His latest book is Can Hong Kong Exceptionalism Last? Dilemmas of Governance and Public Administration over Five Decades, 1970s–2020 (City University of Hong Kong Press, 2021).

Dr Roxana Corduneanu currently holds a research manager role in the consulting industry, and has extensive experience in conducting both academic and non-academic research. Her interests include the future of work, employee motivation, rewards management, public sector management and, more recently, organisational trust. Prior to joining the industry, Roxana completed a PhD in Management at the University of Glasgow and was a Lecturer in Leadership and Human Resource Management at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. She has collaborated with multiple academic institutions worldwide, including the University of Warwick and the University of Sydney, and has received recognition for her work through multiple international research awards.

Professor John Diamond is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Professional Practice at Edge Hill University in the UK. He is a Visiting Professor at two UK universities and he works as a critical friend to a number of leaders from the public and not for profit sector across three of the English city regions. His particular research area is seeking to understand why and how agencies and organisations collaborate and what they gain from such relationships. He is Fellow of the RSA, Regional Studies Association and the UK Joint University Council.

Dr Kristy Docherty is Engagement Lead for Public Services at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) established by the University of Edinburgh. EFI is a ‘thought-laboratory’ focused on tackling complex issues by bringing people and disciplines together. Kristy’s career spans the public, private and third sectors with senior positions held for organisations in the Energy, Social Housing and Regeneration fields. Kristy has also worked as a Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at Queen Margaret University and has a PhD in collective leadership, collaboration and wicked issues. She is specifically interested in the process of effective collaboration and is committed to building system-wide connections across all sectors to better address intractable societal issues.

Dr Catherine Elliott is a Senior Lecturer and the Education Lead for the Economics Policy and International Business Department at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is an experienced academic with 20 years teaching experience and a Senior Fellow of the HEA. Catherine's PhD examines the impact of modernisation policies and technological change on sports volunteers and organisations.

Professor John Fenwick is Emeritus Professor of Public Management and Leadership at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK. His early career included several years in policy research in local government, while in the academic world he has taught at Hull University and Northumbria University. A specialist in the field of local government, he has led management development in local authorities and continues to give emphasis to research which informs practice as well as theory. John has supervised and examined many students at doctoral level and continues to publish widely in the fields of local public policy and public service reform. Previous books include Managing Local Government (1995), the jointly edited Public Management in the Postmodern Era (2010) (with Dr Janice McMillan) and the jointly authored Public Enterprise and Local Place (2020) and Leading Local Government: The Role of Directly Elected Mayors (2020) (both with Dr Lorraine Johnston). His most recent book is entitled Organisational Behaviour in the Public Sector: A Critical Introduction, published in 2022.

Peter Furmedge is a community activist with a background in founding, managing and supporting socially trading organisations that spans three decades. His work has supported community initiatives in diverse areas including access to employment, inclusive sport and financial advice and he has been involved in a range of social enterprise start-ups and had held positions on the board of many social organisations. Peter is a founding member of the Beacon municipalist platform in Liverpool, England.

Dr Geoffrey Heath has been a Fellow in Public Sector Accounting at Keele University since 2010, having previously been a lecturer in accounting there. He came to Keele in 2002 from Staffordshire University where he was an academic for many years. Before that he worked in NHS Finance, qualifying as a chartered management accountant. He has a BA in Politics and Sociology from the University of Kent, a PGCE from Liverpool University and a Licentiate and PhD by publication from Luleå University of Technology. His research interests concern resource allocation and management, performance evaluation, governance and accountability in the public sector. Over the years, he has participated in collaborative research and evaluation in health, social care, community safety, urban renewal and localism. Currently, he is engaged on projects concerning well-being in the English emergency ambulance service and about the use of performance indicators in the UK COVID crisis. Since retiring from lecturing, he has been involved as a practitioner on financial inclusion and related projects.

Carl Hughes is a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool Management School. In his work he is studying the effect that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is having on the balance of power between capital and labour. He is paying specific attention to how the voice of workers has become peripheral in the debate about new technologies in the workplace, whether across the so-called new platforms or in advanced manufacturing. He is developing new ideas on how the use of technology is used as a tool of managerial control, on labour process theory and the organisation of workers in precarious workplaces.

Dr Lorraine Johnston is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Governance at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK. Previous academic posts include research fellowships at both Manchester and Lancaster Universities and, in the world of practice, business development responsibilities while working for Newcastle City Council. Her principal current interests are in local government, urban regeneration and the recent reforms in local public sector leadership. A member of the Regional Studies Association and the Royal Town Planning Institute, she has held a number of advisory roles with public bodies in the UK and the wider European setting. Books include the jointly authored Public Enterprise and Local Place (2020) and Leading Local Government: The Role of Directly Elected Mayors (2020) (both with Professor John Fenwick). Lorraine is currently researching the impact of innovation on local public service delivery.

Dr Dunli Li is Lecturer (Teaching) in the Department of Economics at University College London (UCL). She received her PhD in Economics from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. Dr Li was previously employed at Queen's University Belfast as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics. Dr Li's research areas cover both economics research and education research. Her economics research interests are in the areas of human capital, economic growth and applied econometrics. She has published in the Journal of Human Capital. Her education research interests are in the areas of understanding student satisfaction, including National Student Survey (NSS) data analysis, the drivers of student academic performance, such as lecture attendance and class engagement. She has extensive university teaching experience to both economics and non-economics students with particular interests in data analysis. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Professor Joyce Liddle is a Professor of Public Leadership and Enterprise, Newcastle BS, Northumbria, having spent the previous 4 years as Professor of Public Leadership and Management at IMPGT, Aix-Marseille Université, France. She is a graduate of the University of Durham, Doctorate, University of Warwick, previously Head of the International Centre for Public Services Management, Nottingham Business School, Director of the MPA/MPP Programmes, University of Nottingham, Director of MA in Masters', Durham Business School, University of Durham, Director of the MBA Programme Sunderland Business School, Head of the Centre for Leadership, Teesside BS. Prior to her academic career, Professor Liddle was company director of a family SME, and is still company secretary of a design company. She was Honorary Chair of the UK Joint University Council, the Learned Society for Public Administration, Social Policy and Social Work Education; and Fellow of three notable societies, the UK Academy of Social Sciences, the Regional Studies Association and the Joint University Council. She holds (has held) Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Eastern Finland, Tor Vergata, Rome, Northumbria, Newcastle, Edge Hill & Glasgow Caledonian. Her research interests are in the areas of city and regional leadership and governance, public innovation and entrepreneurship, partnerships, networks and vulnerability. She has published over 200 articles, 30 book chapters and 15 books, and is editor, advisor and chair on six international EABs.

Professor Peter Murphy is Professor of Public Policy and Management and Head of Research at Nottingham Business School, in Nottingham Trent University. Prior to joining the business school in 2009, he was a senior civil servant in four Whitehall departments, a director of the Government Office for the East Midlands and is a former Chief Executive of Melton Borough Council in Leicestershire. He has a BA in Social Sciences from the University of Leicester, an MA from the University of Nottingham and a PhD from Nottingham Trent University. His research focuses on public policy, and in particular the performance management, governance, scrutiny, public assurance and value-for-money arrangements of locally delivered public services. Peter is Joint Vice Chair (Research) of the Public Administration Committee of the Joint Universities Council, a member of the Academic Advisory Board of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue and a member of the Business and Management (C17) sub-panel of the Research Excellence Framework for 2021.

Dr Steven Parker is Lecturer in Management in the Department for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise at the Open University Business School. Steven has over 20 years of experience in local government as a social worker and manager. His research interests are public service ethos, public value, and multi-agency working, and he has recently published in Public Management Review and Public Policy and Administration.

Dr Tobias Polzer is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Organization Studies at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. He received a PhD in Public Management from WU. Tobias' research interests include reforms in the public sector in the areas of digitalization, public governance, public financial management and public procurement. His PhD thesis has been published by Springer. He has published in Public Management Review, Urban Studies, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Accounting Forum and Abacus, among others. Tobias is Guest Editor of a Special Issue on ‘NGO Performance, Governance and Accountability in the Era of Digitalisation’ in British Accounting Review. A co-edited volume on ‘Joined-up Local Government’ provides an empirical account of how initiatives for joining up manifest in local governments in several European countries. He received the ‘Carlo Masini Award’ (Academy of Management best paper from the Public and Non-Profit Division in 2020) for a study on gender budgeting.

Dr Rory Shand is Reader in Political Economy at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research focuses on economic development and governance. He has published several monographs with Routledge and Palgrave, as well as recent articles in Political Studies Review, Policy Studies, International Labour Review and Public Management Review. He has worked on funded projects from the ESRC and with the Department for Communities and Local Government.

Dr Alan Southern is at the University of Liverpool. His work at the Heseltine Institute and Management School is focused on how we can socialize the whole economy. This means looking at the social relations that underpin the economy, the creation of surplus for people rather than capital and ideas about redistribution. It means understanding the role of sectors such as the social economy, sustainable enterprise and opportunities in low-income communities in different ways. He works closely with community-based organisations and has published in a range of journals and edited books.

Dr Matt Thompson is a critical urban geographer with research interests in cooperative alternatives to capitalism, urban political economy, social innovation, state transformation, municipalism, collaborative housing and the politics of urban regeneration. He is currently a research associate at the Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD) at Cardiff University, exploring the role of the foundational economy in local economic development through. Matt previously worked at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and at the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place at the University of Liverpool, looking into the transatlantic urban movements of new municipalism and community wealth building and their intersections with economic democracy. He is the author of Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool's Hidden History of Collective Alternatives (Liverpool University Press, 2020) is an Associate Editor for the new open access transdisciplinary journal Global Social Challenges (Bristol University Press) and is an organising committee member of Minim, the municipalist observatory, international network and online magazine.

Paula Turner left academia in 2019 to use her procurement research and significant experience as a management educator to set up The Centre for Tendering. It is an independent innovation and training business dedicated to championing inclusive procurement and opening up supply chains to smaller firms. Paula has poured her research and practitioner knowledge of breakthrough success into the ground-breaking CLEVER TENDERING model which quickly and easily defines what a company needs to do to win business through tendering for contracts. She teaches business leaders how to become confident and successful at winning contracts.

Paula has current and impressive knowledge of national and regional socio-economic policy environments, large national and devolved commissioning budgets and has written many successful outcome-based bids on behalf of her clients. Simultaneously, her ground-breaking work on Inclusive Procurement offers anchor institutions insight and tools to build diverse supply chains and take positive action for community wealth building.

Professor Paresh Wankhade is a Professor of Leadership and Management and Director of Research at Edge Hill University Business School, UK. He is the Programme Leader for the UK's first bespoke Professional Doctorate in Emergency Services Management. He is also the Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Emergency Services. His research and publications focus on analyses of strategic leadership, organisational culture, organisational change and interoperability within the public services with a focus on blue light services. Paresh has published in major journals including: Work, Employment & Society, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Journal of Management Reviews, Public Management Review, Regional Studies, Public Money and Management and International Journal of Public Sector Management. His recent work (co-authored with professionals) has explored leadership and management perspectives in the Ambulance, Police and Fire & Rescue Services. He is currently finishing a Routledge monograph analysing the state of business research in emergency services.