Public Management Review

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....

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....

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....

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).

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

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 ...

[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....

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....

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....

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....

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...

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....

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....

Michael Olumekor, Joëlle van der Meer, Sergey Polbitsyn & Rocco Palumbo build on the happy-productive worker thesis to examine the influence of deficiencies in wellbeing and inclusive working environment on the effectiveness of public sector organizations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Marcus Pietsch, Hilal Buyukgoze, Sedat Gümüş, Ömür Çoban & Nedim Özdemir examine the microfoundations of org ambidexterity in public schools, showing that leader trust enhances ambidexterity, mediated by teacher commitment and individual ambidexterity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Britt Regal and @c-j-fitz.bsky.social introduce the concept of 'relational arbitrage': a capability important for platform organizations to balance aims within multi-level co-creation efforts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Drawing on action research with a Scottish City Council, Thereza Raquel Sales de Aguiar, Chandana Alawattage and John Thorne critically evaluate the dialogic and agonistic possibilities and limitations of visual reporting of carbon emissions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Sandra Henninger and Rick Vogel examine the extrinsic, intrinsic, and prosocial values of workers before they switch from the private to the public sector, compared to those of private-sector workers who switch to a new private employer www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Liang Ma, Weixing Liu and @hongtaoyi.bsky.social theoretically develop and quantitatively test the linkage between performance feedback and policy diffusion, suggesting that governments can leverage performance information to facilitate policy diffusion www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Yiran Li, Yingying Fan and @nkapucu.bsky.social analyze the roles of high-tech companies in emergency response, finding they are crucial in early warning, logistics and information dissemination, and supporting emergency management infrastructure www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Julia Dahlvik and Hannah Medea Breier apply Beck Jørgensen and Bozeman’s public values model to data on the Austrian Ombudsman Board, incorporating perspectives from both citizens and staff www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exploring tensions between appropriateness and consequences in digitally-induced change: empirical evidence from a public museum The study adopts the appropriateness and consequences logics to study how digitally-induced change unfolds in public museums as examples of anchor institutions. Through a single-case study of an It...

Hot off the press! Article from our recent Visiting Scholar &
PhD student Lorenza Querini. Developed during Lorenza's stay @ctgualbany.bsky.social, the paper explores tensions between appropriateness & consequences in digitally-induced change in public museums www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UZD2Q...