International Journal of Public Sector Management
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Micro-municipal administration: a review and network-based framework
Matteo Cristofaro, Nicola Cucari, Anastassia Zannoni, Francesco Laviola, Antonella Monda, Davide Liberato Lo Conte, Pinalba Schilleci, Leul Girma Haylemariam, Simona Margareta MareMicro-municipalities are a widespread form of local government worldwide. However, research into micro-municipalities is often fragmented across various disciplines (e.g. public…
Process reengineering and public value creation: using process mining in courts
Serena Racis, Alessandro Spano, Giorgio LattiThis study aims to apply Process Mining (PM) techniques to identify the critical elements that primarily affect the trials’ duration and suggest the best practices to enable their…
Public auditors’ perception of digital platforms for popular reporting: insights from the case study of OpenBDAP
Davide Eltrudis, Patrizio Monfardini, Anna Francesca PattaroThis paper employs the Biondi and Lapsley (2014) accounting information transparency model to investigate whether effective transparency can be achieved through digital platforms…
Looking into the black box of non-systemic quality management in public administration
Lukas Baschung, Nicole Weber, Stefanie Hasler, Mathias RotaThrough the lens of neo-institutionalism, this study suggests an up-to-date check of non-systemic quality management (QM) practices, based on the example of Swiss cantonal public…
Strategizing blockchain adoption in public cultural services: a comprehensive scoping review
Federica Rubino, Deborah Agostino, Davide SpallazzoThis paper explores the application of blockchain technology in the public cultural sector, where adoption remains limited despite its potential. The study identifies major use…
Limitations of trust and legitimacy in blockchain: exploring the effectiveness of decentralisation, immutability and consensus mechanisms in blockchain governance
Dion CurryThis paper examines to what extent blockchain creates legitimacy and trust in different modes of public governance. It posits that while blockchain aims for political legitimacy…
The role of information flows in trust-based management
Svetlana Norkin, Åge Johnsen, Katriina ByströmThis paper explores the role of work-related information flows in trust-based management in public sector organizations. Whereas the relationship that trust affects information…
Integrative public leadership: a systematic review
Jonne ParkkinenPublic leadership literature has recognised the need for specific integrative leadership style in boundary-crossing collaborations, and it has been proposed as a new umbrella term…
Leadership competencies and blockchain implementation in public sector organizations: a sensemaking approach
Syed Hammad Ul Haq, Sorin Dan, Khuram ShahzadThis study aims to explore the required leadership competencies for successful blockchain technology (BCT) implementation in public sector organizations from a sensemaking…
What motivates public sector organisations to use blockchain?
Stanislav Mahula, Evrim Tan, Joep Crompvoets, Paul TimmersThis article investigates decision-makers’ motivations in public sector organisations (PSOs) for pursuing blockchain technology (BCT) projects in government settings. The research…
The shift from performance measurement to performance management in local government: do performance measurement systems support the drivers of performance data use?
William C. Rivenbark, Vincenzo VignieriThe authors explore how performance measurement systems have evolved over the past 20-plus years to support the drivers of measurement system maturity, outcome measures and…
Blockchain for the circular economy, implications for public governance
Eduardo Acosta Llano, Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, Lauri HaapanenThis study examines the intricate interplay of blockchain, public governance and the circular economy (CE), aiming to assess the potential of blockchain technology (BT) in…
Improving public services’ performance measurement systems: applying data envelopment analysis in the big and open data context
Francesca Bartolacci, Roberto Del Gobbo, Michela SoverchiaThis paper contributes to the field of public services’ performance measurement systems by proposing a benchmarking-based methodology that improves the effective use of big and…
Service satisfaction among a language minority: a randomized survey experiment on the satisfaction of Swedish-speaking Finns with early childhood education
Isak Vento, Jesper Eklund, Jonas SchaumanThis study explores the effect of language on service satisfaction among Finland-Swedes, a national minority language group in Finland, in the context of early childhood…
The role of institutional and operational factors in the digitalization of large local governments: insights from Italy
Marco Bisogno, Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros, Flavio AbateThis study investigates drivers of local governments’ digitalization, focusing on contextual factors that can help explain the level of e-government development. Concretely, it…
Strategic crises management in Finland: government responses to COVID-19 pandemic
Jan-Erik Johanson, Elias Pekkola, Jari Stenvall, Pasi-Heikki Rannisto, Ulriika LeponiemiThis article examines the strategy formation in the Finnish government’s pandemic management during the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing a research gap by exploring the possibilities…
Performance management in action: a configurational analysis of the drivers of the purposeful use of performance information
Francesco Vidè, Denita Cepiku, Marco MastrodascioThe article explores which configurations of organizational and individual conditions support the purposeful use of performance information in the public sector. Prior research…
Navigating the landscape of public–private partnership research: a novel review using latent Dirichlet allocation
Abderahman Rejeb, Karim Rejeb, Andrea Appolloni, Suhaiza Zailani, Mohammad IranmaneshGiven the growing significance of contemporary socio-economic and infrastructural conversations of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), this research seeks to provide a general…
What role does HRM system strength play in Italian healthcare organizations? A post COVID-19 snapshot
Federico Ceschel, Valentina Bianchini, Fabian Homberg, Marzia Di MarcantonioOur study investigates the role of the Human Resources Management (HRM) system strength in supporting Italian healthcare managers during times of uncertainty and change. The…
Citizens’ role and digitalisation in the participatory budgeting to create public value: the case of Rome
Valentina Santolamazza, Giorgia Mattei, Fabio Giulio GrandisIn recent years, the public sector has faced the challenge of digitalisation. This has significantly impacted the relationships between citizens and public organisations and…
Scaling of social initiatives: the role of entrepreneurial skills and positions
Marion van LunenburgThe scaling of social initiatives is important to achieve broad social impact based on successful small-scale experiments. This paper focuses on the influence of the…
A comparative exploration of youth participation in local sustainable development: insights from Italian metropolitan cities
Gloria Fiorani, Ribana Andreea Chiper, Chiara Di GerioThis paper aims to investigate the extent of public participation of youth in strategic planning for local sustainable development, emphasising the establishment of a positive…
Integrating smart cities and tourism systems: a critical review
Stefania Denise Escobar, Colin Michael HallThis study explores the relationship between Tourism Systems and Smart Cities, aiming to identify what prevents public managers from including these systems in Smart City…
New public management evolving agenda: risk management in Italian municipalities
Monia Castellini, Caterina Ferrario, Vincenzo RisoSince the 1980s, New public management has fostered the introduction of managerial approaches similar to those of the private sector in public administrations. Recently, the…
Budgetary control and the adoption of consortium blockchain monitoring system in the Ghanaian local government
Gifty Kenetey, Boris PopeskoThis study aimed to examine the adoption of consortium blockchain technology to ensure interoperability for the transparency of budgetary control in Ghanaian local government.
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