Public Management Review

Open access: Through interviews with 56 public servants, @sallamaijala.bsky.social, Aino Rantamäki and @kaisakurkela.bsky.social identify key elements of professional contribution to public service value co-creation and the persistent presence of value tensions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Justine Marienfeldt analyses public servants' perceptions on meaningful digitalization and automation, including the perceived added value for employees, citizen-clients, and society www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Through Social Network Analysis, Gustavo Lopes dos Santos, Margarida Monteiro & Guilherme Saad identify primary stakeholders of the Olympic Games, map their relationships, and assess power dynamics across the network www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Understanding collaboration as response to red tape among Street-level bureaucrats: a curvilinear relationship Red tape is a significant challenge to street-level bureaucrats’ (SLBs) working experience and performance. While extensive research has examined its negative consequences, less attention has been ...

New paper with @liqianhui.bsky.social in @pmreview.bsky.social investigates relation between #redtape & #collaboration among #teachers. We uncover curvilinear relation, some red tape may be beneficial but beyond that collaboration benefits diminish. In #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Out of sight, out of mind?: telework and gender inequality in performance appraisals Do public managers favor office workers over teleworkers? This study examines managers’ cognitive biases in employee performance appraisals, focusing on proximity and gender bias. A survey experime...

Source: Ju Won Park (2025, in press). Out of sight, out of mind?: telework and gender inequality in performance appraisals. Public Management Review.

@pmreview.bsky.social

Note that the vertical axis in the figure starts at 46, not 0. But even when it would have, the results are the same (although less pronounced in a figure): working from home hurts performance evaluations, and it's more detrimental for women.

📣 Working from home results in lower performance ratings📣

Managers give lower performance ratings to teleworkers than to office workers, even when holding performance constant.

Female teleworkers face an even greater disadvantage.

Using a game-theoretic framework and panel data from 168 Chinese cities, Chengwei Wang and Liang Ma find that governments often seek to secure success in at least one policy area by inflating or suppressing performance data www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Xiuling Ma, Tingzhong Huang, Can Chen and Rikui Xiao analyze Florida counties to investigate the relationships between racial demographics, law enforcement representation, and the use of fines and forfeitures www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Jens Lemb, @robertklemmensen.bsky.social and Signe Pihl-Thingvad evaluate the predictive power of established turnover antecedents and argue that demographic characteristics - especially tenure and age - are most important for predicting turnover www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Malte Dewies, @leede-wit.bsky.social and Lucia Reisch use a pre-registered survey study to examine how assumptions about cooperation, behavioural malleability, and self-control influence policy preferences among public officials in the Netherlands www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Emamdeen Fohim, Claus Jacobs and Philipp Sieger propose a conceptual model in which they clarify the mechanisms of mindset expansion that support a paradigm shift towards public value governance to address wicked problems www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Martina Pisarra, Gabriele Infante and Marta Marsilio consider the differential impact of digital service co-delivery on value creation for carers of vulnerable individuals, exploring three value-in-use elements of empowerment, trust and satisfaction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Diego Barría Traverso explores how the bodies responsible for organizing sports mega-events can successfully overcome challenges during the preparation phase, highlighting the importance of aligning their work plans with institutional and political contexts www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Organizational reputation should not be viewed solely as an accumulated institutional asset. It also functions as a strategic communication mechanism through which governments convey information about competence, fairness, integrity, and expertise @pmreview.bsky.social

New publication alert! 🚨
Our latest study in PMR examines how four types of reputation signals—performative, moral, procedural, and technical—differentially influence citizens’ coproduction willingness. DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2025.2591760

Open access: Brian Ohl proposes the concept of organizational goal potential - the degree to which an organization can cultivate, prioritize, integrate, and achieve a goal - and a related framework www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yujie Tan, @lihuafang.bsky.social and Chuanjun Liu develop and validate representative scenarios of unethical prosocial behaviour, then empirically test the relationship between creativity and these behaviours using survey data from front-line social workers www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

👏 Please join us in congratulating Bert George on his new and exciting role!

Bert is starting as Co-Editor in Chief at Public Management Review (#PMR) — the adopted journal of #IRSPM. 📰
👉 https://www.irspm.org/publications/public-management-review

Coping with occupational stereotypes: an emotional lens on police officers’ experiences How do public employees cope with negative occupational stereotypes? Limited research examines the psychological processes of how these perceptions shape their behaviour. This study examines how pu...

Does stereotyping stir emotions for public service employees?

Yes!

And coping behavior depends on their emotions. Example: anger is related to confronting citizens.

Read more in our latest article with @neosheeling.bsky.social in @pmreview.bsky.social .

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: @harrijalonen.bsky.social and Petri Uusikylä develop a three-level conceptual framework for integrating complexity theory into systemic policy design for sustainability transformations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Using institutional theory, Jorge Fleta-Asín, Alfredo Jiménez and @fermunozsanchez.bsky.social examine delays in the initiation of international public–private partnership projects www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Coping with occupational stereotypes: an emotional lens on police officers’ experiences How do public employees cope with negative occupational stereotypes? Limited research examines the psychological processes of how these perceptions shape their behaviour. This study examines how pu...

New publication from @overman.bsky.social & me:

💬 What does it do to police officers when they hear over & over again that "all officers are racist"?

Emotions are NOT noise in public services. They guide the actions of professionals towards citizens.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Learn about Public Management Review Learn about Public Management Review aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

In addition, @rossipaula.bsky.social, @nonprofitphd.bsky.social, @schwoererskayla.bsky.social and Norma Riccucci will be joining us as Associate Editors. We are so glad to have you on the team! www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpx...

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

🎉 We're pleased to announce that on 1 October, @profgeorgebert.bsky.social (City University of Hong Kong) will join Prof Stephen Osborne as Co-Editor in Chief of Public Management Review. Bert has been Deputy Editor since 2024 @tandfresearch.bsky.social files.taylorandfrancis.com/rpxm-announc...

Special issue: editors Yuhao Ba, Sounman Hong and Jungyeon Park invite submissions that examine how digital transitions influence one or more of the three Es - efficiency, effectiveness, and equity - in non-Western contexts
Abstracts due 30 September think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Open access: Anna-Aurora Kork, @hennapaananen.bsky.social, Laura Kihlström & @dostynkkynen.bsky.social explore cooperation within governance networks, focusing on the interactional dynamics that shaped horizontal policymaking during pandemic governance www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Maria Vittoria Bufali, Simone Manfredi, Raffaella Saporito & Elisabetta Notarnicola highlight three enabling factors of public sector innovation maintenance in a progressively more institutionalized context: multi-dimensionality, consistency, and insulation www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Open access: Alex Ingrams and Sarah Giest explore how stress points in public value creation influence the adoption of algorithmic technologies, and what specific public values trade off as a result www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New #OpenAccess in Public Management Review

“When data doubles narrate asylum: the agency of government officials and asylum applicants in datafied asylum procedures”

Together w/ #RianneDekker, @koenleurs.bsky.social, #DjamilaSchans & @albertalisalah.bsky.social

Link doi.org/10.1080/1471...