Public Management Review
@pmreview.bsky.social
An international journal seeking to draw together and learn lessons from the development of public management across the world
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More editorial news from PMR: @milagasco.bsky.social and Mohammad Khan are stepping down as Associate Editors and Editorial Board members and we thank them for their service, but we are pleased to welcome @nonprofitphd.bsky.social and Norma Riccucci to the Board
Employing a two-factorial experiment on a sample of 663 US residents, Donavon Johnson explores what motivates aid-seekers to engage in citizen-to-citizen co-production to reduce administrative burdens, and the explanatory mechanisms www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Employing a two-factorial experiment on a sample of 663 US residents, Donavon Johnson explores what motivates aid-seekers to engage in citizen-to-citizen co-production to reduce administrative burdens, and the explanatory mechanisms www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
'Postfeminist career retreatism': drawing on interviews with women leaders in the Northern Ireland public sector, Joan Ballantine, Corina Sheerin and Patricia Lewis examine how postfeminism is implicated in how women leaders respond to a gendered work culture www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 16, 2026 at 10:30 PM
'Postfeminist career retreatism': drawing on interviews with women leaders in the Northern Ireland public sector, Joan Ballantine, Corina Sheerin and Patricia Lewis examine how postfeminism is implicated in how women leaders respond to a gendered work culture www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I really enjoyed working on this project! The study highlights the individual and organizational adaptations needed to make technology work in practice. Grateful to the team for making it possible. Take a look!
Hot off the press! Article in @pmreview.bsky.social highlights findings from our #FEMA funded research on how the interaction of technological, organizational & individual factors affect the development of digital tools for #EmergencyManagement @fiu.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AVV7P...
Characterizing the interactions between technology, organization, and people in government digital transformation: a multilevel view of enactment
As research and practice in government digital transformation advance, significant gaps remain in understanding this phenomenon from a front-line and goal-oriented perspective. This study seeks to ...
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February 13, 2026 at 1:12 PM
I really enjoyed working on this project! The study highlights the individual and organizational adaptations needed to make technology work in practice. Grateful to the team for making it possible. Take a look!
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Hot off the press! Article in @pmreview.bsky.social highlights findings from our #FEMA funded research on how the interaction of technological, organizational & individual factors affect the development of digital tools for #EmergencyManagement @fiu.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AVV7P...
Characterizing the interactions between technology, organization, and people in government digital transformation: a multilevel view of enactment
As research and practice in government digital transformation advance, significant gaps remain in understanding this phenomenon from a front-line and goal-oriented perspective. This study seeks to ...
www.tandfonline.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Hot off the press! Article in @pmreview.bsky.social highlights findings from our #FEMA funded research on how the interaction of technological, organizational & individual factors affect the development of digital tools for #EmergencyManagement @fiu.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/AVV7P...
Open access: @nmountford.bsky.social and Yuzhuo Cai map the dominant institutional logics in healthcare research, identify how they clash, coexist, or blend, and propose a new typology of logic relationships - independent, interdependent, co‑dependent www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 12, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Open access: @nmountford.bsky.social and Yuzhuo Cai map the dominant institutional logics in healthcare research, identify how they clash, coexist, or blend, and propose a new typology of logic relationships - independent, interdependent, co‑dependent www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open access: Ofek Edri-Peer and Nissim Cohen systematically review 129 studies, employing a sense-making lens to examine cognitive coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats, their antecedents, and their behavioural outcomes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 10, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Open access: Ofek Edri-Peer and Nissim Cohen systematically review 129 studies, employing a sense-making lens to examine cognitive coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats, their antecedents, and their behavioural outcomes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open access: Advanced digital surveillance technologies are changing the state-citizen relationship - @jonasl-t.bsky.social introduces Digital Surveillance Governance and discusses its core elements: 1) control, 2) capture, 3) transparency, and 4) data cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 10, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Open access: Advanced digital surveillance technologies are changing the state-citizen relationship - @jonasl-t.bsky.social introduces Digital Surveillance Governance and discusses its core elements: 1) control, 2) capture, 3) transparency, and 4) data cooperation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open access: @rossipaula.bsky.social, @hennapaananen.bsky.social, Anni Jäntti, @harrijalonen.bsky.social & Arto Haveri use institutional complexity to explore the dynamics of cooperation and their unintended/adverse consequences for Finnish welfare service reform www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 9, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Open access: @rossipaula.bsky.social, @hennapaananen.bsky.social, Anni Jäntti, @harrijalonen.bsky.social & Arto Haveri use institutional complexity to explore the dynamics of cooperation and their unintended/adverse consequences for Finnish welfare service reform www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open access: @thomasreindersma.bsky.social, Sandra Sülz, Kees Ahaus and Isabelle Fabbricotti investigate how purchasers of health and social care shape, enable, and constrain the implementation of complex and integrated health and social care interventions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 9, 2026 at 5:16 AM
Open access: @thomasreindersma.bsky.social, Sandra Sülz, Kees Ahaus and Isabelle Fabbricotti investigate how purchasers of health and social care shape, enable, and constrain the implementation of complex and integrated health and social care interventions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Girley Damasceno, Ricardo Corrêa Gomes and Diego Mota Vieira explore how key stakeholders - guardians, spenders, priority setters, watchdogs, and legitimators - shaped the outcomes of fiscal rule reform attempts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 9, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Girley Damasceno, Ricardo Corrêa Gomes and Diego Mota Vieira explore how key stakeholders - guardians, spenders, priority setters, watchdogs, and legitimators - shaped the outcomes of fiscal rule reform attempts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New publication alert! 🚨Our new PMR study tests how time strategies in crisis response—timing (pre vs post), sequence (defensive vs accommodative), tempo (fast vs slow)—shape public perceptions of local government reputation. Evidence from a 2×3×2 factorial experiment (n=1520).
January 22, 2026 at 12:09 PM
New publication alert! 🚨Our new PMR study tests how time strategies in crisis response—timing (pre vs post), sequence (defensive vs accommodative), tempo (fast vs slow)—shape public perceptions of local government reputation. Evidence from a 2×3×2 factorial experiment (n=1520).
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Our paper is positioned as an early effort to bring reputation management into the analytical center of crisis management, showing how crisis response can be understood not only as governance under pressure, but also as reputation work conducted through time-sensitive choices. @pmreview.bsky.social
New publication alert! 🚨Our new PMR study tests how time strategies in crisis response—timing (pre vs post), sequence (defensive vs accommodative), tempo (fast vs slow)—shape public perceptions of local government reputation. Evidence from a 2×3×2 factorial experiment (n=1520).
January 22, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Our paper is positioned as an early effort to bring reputation management into the analytical center of crisis management, showing how crisis response can be understood not only as governance under pressure, but also as reputation work conducted through time-sensitive choices. @pmreview.bsky.social
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[No big surprises here] "The peripheral advantage paradox posits that in systems with strong centralization, peripheral positioning can become a strategic asset for innovation" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Innovation from the margins: policy entrepreneurship and public sector innovation in centralized contexts
Public-sector innovation (PSI) and policy entrepreneurship (PE) are both deeply embedded in national political contexts, but their respective literatures have remained largely separate. This study ...
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January 20, 2026 at 9:10 AM
[No big surprises here] "The peripheral advantage paradox posits that in systems with strong centralization, peripheral positioning can become a strategic asset for innovation" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Oda Bagøien Hustad and Lena Brogaard present a conceptual framework linking collaborative outputs with three collaborative leadership tasks and practices (foundational, process-oriented, and agile) - applied across data from two multi-stakeholder partnerships www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 20, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Oda Bagøien Hustad and Lena Brogaard present a conceptual framework linking collaborative outputs with three collaborative leadership tasks and practices (foundational, process-oriented, and agile) - applied across data from two multi-stakeholder partnerships www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Providing an abstract also in Dutch, Marit Schubad, Bernard Bernards, Suzan van der Pas and Sandra Groeneveld analyze how frontline, middle and top managers shape customization, dependent on their differences in professional and managerial identities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 20, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Providing an abstract also in Dutch, Marit Schubad, Bernard Bernards, Suzan van der Pas and Sandra Groeneveld analyze how frontline, middle and top managers shape customization, dependent on their differences in professional and managerial identities www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, Joseph Ebot Eyong and Abiodun Samuel Adegbile use interview data from managers of public hospitals in Ghana to explore why and how leaders deploy political behaviour to overcome dysfunctional interdependency in public organizations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 20, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Tahiru Azaaviele Liedong, Joseph Ebot Eyong and Abiodun Samuel Adegbile use interview data from managers of public hospitals in Ghana to explore why and how leaders deploy political behaviour to overcome dysfunctional interdependency in public organizations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Hongxia Li, Sicheng Chen, Rongrong Yao and Tom Christensen find that pre-crisis risk communication, accommodative prioritization, and fast-paced responses significantly enhance public perception of local government reputation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 20, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Hongxia Li, Sicheng Chen, Rongrong Yao and Tom Christensen find that pre-crisis risk communication, accommodative prioritization, and fast-paced responses significantly enhance public perception of local government reputation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Xiaochun Zhu, Paolo Belardinelli and Temirlan Moldogaziev manipulate two dimensions of loss aversion - valence and possession - to examine their influence on citizens’ willingness to engage in participatory budgeting www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 14, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Xiaochun Zhu, Paolo Belardinelli and Temirlan Moldogaziev manipulate two dimensions of loss aversion - valence and possession - to examine their influence on citizens’ willingness to engage in participatory budgeting www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Studying 300,000+ encounters on text-based channels, Zijia Li & Luning Liu examine the informational & relational dimensions of administrative language - bureaucratic language lowers citizen satisfaction by reducing text readability, with no sig. relational effect www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Studying 300,000+ encounters on text-based channels, Zijia Li & Luning Liu examine the informational & relational dimensions of administrative language - bureaucratic language lowers citizen satisfaction by reducing text readability, with no sig. relational effect www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Using panel data, Shaowei Chen, Xiaozhou Liu, Wenhao Zhang and Shuang Ling explore how the complexity inherent in performance feedback on multiple interrelated goals affects public organizations’ subsequent performance improvements www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 12, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Using panel data, Shaowei Chen, Xiaozhou Liu, Wenhao Zhang and Shuang Ling explore how the complexity inherent in performance feedback on multiple interrelated goals affects public organizations’ subsequent performance improvements www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open access: Christer A. Flatøy and @jonasl-t.bsky.social examine the sector-conditional influences of electronic monitoring on employees’ turnover intention in the public and private sector www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 12, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Open access: Christer A. Flatøy and @jonasl-t.bsky.social examine the sector-conditional influences of electronic monitoring on employees’ turnover intention in the public and private sector www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Distinguishing active from passive co-production, Yiming Dai & Zhongsheng Wu redefine passive co-production through the lens of policy implementation and compliance, and test their model in both crisis and routine scenarios in China using survey and survey experiment studies doi.org/10.1080/1471...
January 12, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Distinguishing active from passive co-production, Yiming Dai & Zhongsheng Wu redefine passive co-production through the lens of policy implementation and compliance, and test their model in both crisis and routine scenarios in China using survey and survey experiment studies doi.org/10.1080/1471...
Sounman Hong & Tony M. Han compare digital innovation across state-owned enterprises and quasi-governmental organizations - innovation drivers vary by type, suggesting that digital innovation is shaped by distinct institutional logics along the publicness spectrum www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 9, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Sounman Hong & Tony M. Han compare digital innovation across state-owned enterprises and quasi-governmental organizations - innovation drivers vary by type, suggesting that digital innovation is shaped by distinct institutional logics along the publicness spectrum www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open access: Ailin Aastvedt and Halvard Vike present an empirical analysis of co-creation experiments in Norwegian municipalities, showing that municipal actors often resist or reinterpret co-creation when it challenges established democratic structures www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 9, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Open access: Ailin Aastvedt and Halvard Vike present an empirical analysis of co-creation experiments in Norwegian municipalities, showing that municipal actors often resist or reinterpret co-creation when it challenges established democratic structures www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Using representative longitudinal survey data from China, Xing Chen and Hanchen Jiang integrate institution-based and process-based trust theories to examine the effect of digital government on citizens’ trust in local government www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 9, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Using representative longitudinal survey data from China, Xing Chen and Hanchen Jiang integrate institution-based and process-based trust theories to examine the effect of digital government on citizens’ trust in local government www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....