International Journal of Public Sector Management
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Teleworking and work-family balance in public educational institutions
Marine Mateus Costa, Antônio Alves Filho, Ana Katarina Pessoa-de-OliveiraThis article aims to investigate teleworking in public institutions, specifically focussing on the perspectives of technical-administrative employees at a Brazilian federal…
The effect of political environment on security and privacy of contact tracing apps evaluation
Yazan Alnsour, Ahmad H. Juma’hContact tracing apps have emerged to collect data and mitigate the spread of infectious diseases. However, privacy and security concerns have caused individuals to hesitate to…
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 many roads to reform: a configurational analysis of the conditions supporting performance management implementation
Juliet Ann Musso, Christopher Weare, Robert W. JackmanThe goal is to illuminate the requisites for the implementation of performance management reforms in a public bureaucracy.
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…
“We had to become everything”: employee innovation due to COVID-19 in the Italian public healthcare system
Caterina Manfrini, Izabelle BäckströmCOVID-19 has profoundly shaped human interactions, and, within public healthcare systems, care relations. Through the lens of social suffering, this study explores how employee…
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…
Managing paradoxes in the public sector: a systematic and problematizing review of macro-level concepts
Daniela Schädeli, Adrian RitzThis article investigates different terms and concepts of paradox dimensions in Public Administration because these terms are often used interchangeably. The aim is to reveal the…
Public value management in digital transformation: a scoping review
Barbara Zyzak, Katarzyna Sienkiewicz-Małyjurek, Magnus Rom JensenThe aim of this study was to map and scope a body of literature on the interplay between public value management (PVM) and digital transformation (DT), clarify the concept of PVM…
Strategies for implementing risk management in Brazilian state governments
Ana Luiza Freire de Lorena, Ana Paula Cabral Seixas CostaThis study explores how public sector risk management (RM) is implemented in 6 Brazilian state governments, given the existence of contextual factors in the settings.
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…
Citizen satisfaction with arm's length bodies in local government: expert insights on policy and practice
Virginia Angius, Sandra van ThielThe purpose of this study is to investigate the application of citizen satisfaction (CS) as a tool for measuring performance by arm's length bodies (ALBs) in local governments…
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…
Learning to do good: developing capabilities to deliver social value from public procurement within English public authorities
Chris Lonsdale, Nicholas le MesurierThis paper aims to explore how social procurement (SP)-related capabilities might be developed within public authorities.
Variables of performance governance model development: evidence from the Italian public healthcare
Fabio De Matteis, Elio BorgonoviThe performance governance model, based on the use of performance information to improve governance, is particularly complex, considering the inter-institutional relationships and…
Stakeholder management within PPP-arranged civil engineering megaprojects: a systematic literature review of challenges, critical success factors and stakeholder roles
Carolina Busco, Jeffrey Walters, Exequiel ProvostePublic-private partnerships (PPPs) have become integral in delivering public services and infrastructure, particularly in the context of megaprojects. This paper focuses on the…
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…
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…
Employee readiness for change: examining the combined effects of individual and organizational demands in public school reform
Cyrill Julian KalbermattenThe paper aims to clarify how work-specific characteristics at both the individual and organizational level influence professional civil servants’ readiness for change during the…
Lessons from a Black Swan: professionals in local co-production prior to and during Covid-19
Anna UsterThis study examines co-production during the Covid-19 crisis, characterized as a Black Swan event, with a specific emphasis on local professionals’ preparedness and response.
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…
Absorptive capacity, entrepreneurial orientation and organizational performance in state-owned companies
Paulo Henrique Studart Pinho, José Milton de Sousa-Filho, Bruno de Souza Lessa, Josimar Sousa CostaThe objective of this article is to analyze the relationship between absorptive capacity, entrepreneurial orientation, and performance within Brazilian federal state-owned…
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…
Procurement-network contributions to healthcare supply chain resilience: a case study from Canada
Martin Beaulieu, Salomée Ruel, Olivier DupouetThis article investigates how the healthcare sector can reorganize its procurement network to better balance its resilience and cost-minimization objectives.
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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