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Who Wants to Pay More? Exploring Citizen Willingness to Pay for Supporting Local Emergency Management Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Junghwa Choi, Wesley Wehde
Local emergency managers play a significant role in mitigating, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters. However, the fiscal stress that local governments often face limits thei...
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Explaining Coordination Quality in Public Service Delivery Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Leif E. Kårtvedt
Governments manage coordination problems with different levels of success. The existing literature suggests that organizational features are important for explaining coordination quality, that is, ...
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Policy Tourism and Economic Collaboration Among Local Governments: A Nonparametric Matching Model Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Hao Ren, Lingyi Zhou, Yuning Gao
Policy tourism is an important, widespread, but understudied aspect of the networking efforts of public managers. Few studies have investigated how the official and purposeful interactions between ...
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Gaming Over: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Competition on Gaming Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Martin Baekgaard, Carlos X. Lastra-Anadón, Søren Serritzlew, Kim Mannemar Sønderskov
Does competition increase gaming? Gaming is a well-known problem in the public sector, and a strong logic suggests that increased competition should lead to more gaming. However, issues with revers...
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Does Gender Explain the Indebtedness Levels of Local Governments? Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros, Ana-María Ríos, María-Dolores Guillamón
In recent decades, there has been a proliferation of research analyzing the role of women in public management. This study contributes to this line of research by examining the influence women have...
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Introduction Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Elaine Yi Lu, Marc K. Fudge, Aroon P. Manoharan
Published in Public Performance & Management Review (Vol. 47, No. 1, 2024)
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Leadership Mobility and Target Adaptation: Does Previous Target Achievement Matter? Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Pan Zhang, Dingjie Liu, Shoujun Lyu
Target setting (or goal setting) is a process of incremental adaptation. Prior studies have mainly focus on organization-level adaptation of performance target setting. Based on the geographical le...
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Examining the factors of interlocal economic development collaboration in rural areas Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Xiaoou Cheng, Sung-Wook Kwon, Christopher V. Hawkins
Understanding collaboration among local governments for economic development has been a significant research topic over the last few decades. However, because much of the literature has focused on ...
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Output Performance of Collaborative Governance: Examining Collaborative Conditions for Achieving Output Performance of the Dutch Flood Protection Program Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Emma Avoyan, Maria Kaufmann, Arnoud Lagendijk, Sander Meijerink
Despite abundant research on collaborative governance, relatively little attention has been paid to explaining its performance. When are collaborations performing and what conditions are required t...
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City Managers as Digital Transformation Leaders: Exploratory and Explanatory Notes Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Anna Sanina
This article examines the internal sources for digital transformation at the local level. It attempts to comprehend a public manager’s individual role in the introduction of digital tools to lower ...
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COVID-19 Mortality and the Structural Characteristics of Long-Term Care Facilities: Evidence from Sweden Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Rasmus Broms, Carl Dahlström, Jenna Najar, Marina Nistotskaya
As in many countries around the globe, older citizens in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) in Sweden were hit hard by the Coronavirus pandemic, but mortality varied greatly between different facili...
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Correction Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-12-08
Published in Public Performance & Management Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Can the Use of Debt by Nonprofit Organizations Raise Government Funding? Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Teresa Elvira-Lorilla, Inigo Garcia-Rodriguez, M. Elena Romero-Merino, Marcos Santamaria-Mariscal
Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) may be reluctant to debt financing because it is associated with an increase in their financial vulnerability. However, based on arguments from signaling and agency t...
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Why Citizens Engage in Co-Production: A Theoretical Framework and Experimental Evidence Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Seulki Lee, Chongmin Na
Co-production has been embraced as a robust strategy to improve service quality and create public value. Despite growing interest in citizens’ motivations to engage in co-production, there remain s...
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Understanding Tradeoffs in the Institutional Design and Leadership of Collaborative Governance Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Ingrid Christensen
There is broad scholarly agreement that successful collaborative governance relies on supportive institutional design and facilitative leadership. However, there is a need to increase our understan...
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Mission, Effectiveness, and Commitment: Understanding the Mediating Effects of Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Coping Behaviors Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Manlin Xiao, Ning Liu, Carlos Wing-Hung Lo, Xueyong Zhan
The coping behaviors of street-level bureaucrats have received increasing attention in the past decade. Although recent literature has explored the classification of coping behaviors and their ante...
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Restoring the Truth: Anchoring Effects and Debiasing Interventions on Citizen Satisfaction Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Jinfeng Zhang, Zengqiang Qin, Jun Cen, Bingsheng Liu
Although expectations have emerged as a prominent research theme in public administration, little is known about whether and how expectations affect citizen satisfaction. We investigated the anchor...
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Why Are Some States Reluctant to Implement the ACA Medicaid Expansion? Focusing on State Fiscal Capacity Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Shihyun Noh, Ji Hyung Park
This study considers the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion and examines why some states have been reluctant to implement the expansion by focusing on state fi...
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Do Public Health Service Characteristics Matter? Exploring the Make-or-Buy Decision in Local Health Departments Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Tianshu (Tina) Zhao
Public health services can be provided by local health departments (LHDs) or external contractors. This study aims to determine which characteristics of public health services, if any, influence th...
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A Systematic Review of Experimental Research on Public Service Motivation Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Kee Hoon Chung, Inbok Rhee, Cheol Liu
Experimental research has been increasingly recognized as the gold standard for causal inference. However, despite the call for the adoption of experimental approaches to the study of public servic...
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A Public Organization Provided a Poor Service: Is There Anything They Can Do to Make It Right with the Citizen? Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 James Gerard Caillier
This article aimed to investigate the effectiveness of service recovery strategies in a public organization. Justice theory and cognitive appraisal theory were used to develop hypotheses that predi...
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Impact of Ethical Leadership on Job Satisfaction and Work-Related Burnout among Turkish Street-Level Bureaucrats: The Roles of Public Service Motivation, Perceived Organizational Support, and Red Tape Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Bulent Uluturk, Elgiz Yilmaz Altuntas, Tuba Isik
The present study examines the impact of ethical leadership on job satisfaction and work-related burnout (WRB) among street-level bureaucrats through the mediating roles of public service motivatio...
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Correction Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-09-05
Published in Public Performance & Management Review (Vol. 46, No. 6, 2023)
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Leading through Tumultuous Events in Public Sector Organizations Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Azadeh Shafaei, Ben Farr-Wharton, Maryam Omari, Julie Ann Pooley, Tim Bentley, Fleur Sharafizad, Leigh-ann Onnis
Public sector organizations (PSOs) are subject to turbulence and constant change. A PSO’s ability to lead a coherent response to this rapidly changing environment is crucial to ensuring the continu...
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Forging a Local Social Economy: On the Institutional Work of Local Governments in South Korea Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Casper Hendrik Claassen, Jung Eun Choi, Johanna Mair
This study investigates the strategies local governments can employ to stimulate the growth of the local social economy sector—a sector associated with improving residents’ subjective well-being. A...
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How Do Normative Public Values Promote Service Innovative Behavior in Public Organizations: The Roles of Felt Responsibility for Change and Responsible Leadership Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Ai Cam Tran, Trong Tuan Luu, Ngoc Khanh Trinh, Xuan Nhi Nguyen
Innovating public services contributes to enhancing citizen satisfaction and trust in public organizations. The aim of our research is to unravel how and when public sector employees’ perceptions o...
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Financial Sustainability of Hospitals and Equity in Healthcare Access: Using the Social Resource-Based View Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Heewon Lee, Ahreum Han, Keon-Hyung Lee
Ensuring financial sustainability is crucial for the long-term success of any organization, as it determines whether it can continue to operate and achieve its mission. While previous studies explo...
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When Innovative Ideas Encounter Institutions: An Analytical Model Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Ann Karin Tennås Holmen, Toril Ringholm
This paper presents an analytical model for studying “encounters” that take place when ideas for innovation meet institutions (The IIE-model). Our model aims to expand the dichotomous barriers/driv...
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Virtual Work as a Job Demand? Work Behaviors of Public Servants during Covid-19 Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Lena Lenz, Fabian Hattke, Janne Kalucza, Friederike Redlbacher
The study models the abrupt introduction of virtual work during the COVID-19 pandemic as a job demand within the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model. Using survey data from 1,173 public servants col...
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Contracting Out and the Fiscal Sustainability of Public Services Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Cheong Kim, Taehyon Choi
Abstract This study explores how contracting out can contribute to the fiscal sustainability of public services. Together with the economic advantage that contracting out can lower production costs over government production in house, contracting theory informs that contracting out can offer an insulation of efficient and effective service production from the political incentive problem of the principal
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Social Waste or Outcomes Achievement? Exploring the Impact of Performance Budgeting on Municipal Fiscal Health Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Obed Pasha, Tatyana Guzman
Abstract Performance budgeting is a contentious area in public administration literature. While performance budgeting systems are widely adopted with promises of better fiscal outcomes, public administration theory implies that this practice may generate social waste. Most empirical research that finds null or negative effects of performance budgeting focuses only on how performance budgeting affects
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Effects of Social Influence on Relationships among Citizens’ Expectation Confirmation, Satisfaction and Acceptance under Different Urban Renewal Compensation Modes Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Bingsheng Liu, Yu Zhai, Yan Li, Ling Li, Guobin Wu, Si Chen
Both public administration researchers and practitioners have realized that citizens’ satisfaction with and acceptance of urban renewal compensation policy are critical for the local authorities to...
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Beyond Red Tape: An Organizational Echelon Analysis of Necessary Bureaucracy Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Yi Yang
Scholars have documented how ineffective rules or “red tape”, and effective rules or “green tape” affect a public organization’s management and performance. However, they differ on whether red tape...
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How the Permanent Senior Professional Staff Can Enable Policy Capacity in the Face of Political Instability: Insights from the Israeli Experience Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Nissim Cohen, Yekoutiel Sabah
Abstract The literature emphasizes the importance of establishing institutional mechanisms for enabling policy capacity. Yet, room remains for understanding how these institutions—usually run by senior professional administrative staff—function in the face of political instability. To explore this issue, we focus on the role of Deputy Directors-General for Strategy (DDS) and their forum, a new institution
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Determinants of Local Civil Servants’ Perceptions of Intergovernmental Tensions: Experimental Evidence from Korea Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Don S. Lee, Sangyub Ryu, Soonae Park
Much research on intergovernmental tensions has focused on the central government’s perspective and concerns how to control the local government. Despite the increasing importance of the local gove...
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Are Tax and Expenditure Limits (TELs) Effective in Constraining Government Budgets? A Meta-Analysis Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Zhen Guan, Jun Peng, Qiushi Wang
Abstract Tax and expenditure limits (TELs) are an important fiscal institution for policymakers to restrain government taxing and spending. However, traditional theories have proposed different hypotheses about the effectiveness of TELs, and empirical studies have not been able to reach a consistent conclusion. In this article, we employ a meta-analysis to synthesize existing empirical evidence and
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Local Debt Financing in the Shadow of Storms: Disrupted and Destructed? Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Jinhai Yu, Zhiwei Zhang
Abstract Natural disasters often pose sudden and drastic organizational environmental shocks for local governments, leading to administrative disruptions and public finance risks. In the short term, disasters may disrupt debt financing. The disaster shocks may increase the costs of debt if they hurt revenue bases or decrease the costs of debt if generating “constructive destruction” to the local economy
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Accrual-Based Accounting and Fiscal Performance: Empirical Evidence from Higher Education Institutions Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Jin Kim, Il Hwan Chung
Abstract This study aims to advance our knowledge about the role of accrual accounting regimes in financial decision-making process at Higher Education Institutions. The advantages of accrual accounting in the public sector are well documented from the theoretical perspective. However, empirical findings are relatively rare and primarily rely on either normative arguments or storytelling narratives
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The Impact of Government Performance Evaluation on Environmental Performance in Organizations Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Seungwon Yu, Ga-Hui Shin, Suhee Kim
Abstract Using GPE performance gaps (the difference between actual and standard levels of performance), this article explores the relationship between the GPE outcomes of public organizations and their environmental performance (EP). We utilize Korean GPE data related to qualitative/quantitative and financial/non-financial performance indicators that the government uses to evaluate public organizations
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Cross-level Effects of Diversity Climate on Employee Organizational Identification: Evidence from Law Enforcement Units Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Zhongnan Jiang
While benefits of psychological diversity climate have been enumerated in public administration literature, less is known about the effects of diversity climate at the aggregate level. To fill this...
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Private Contractors as a Source for Organizational Learning: Evidence from Scandinavian Municipalities Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Andrej Christian Lindholst, Morten Balle Hansen, Jeppe Agger Nielsen
Abstract The widespread use of government contracting opens up learning opportunities in public organizations’ engagements with private contractors. However, whether public organizations utilize these opportunities to improve their practices has scant coverage in the government contracting literature. We adapt insights from the organizational learning literature, develop an argument on the learning
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Gender Representation and Females’ Performance: The Role of Discretion Between Stakeholders Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Jungin Choe
The representative bureaucracy theory highlights the role of demographic characteristics in improving the benefits of the interests of clients who share similar values and experiences. Using data o...
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How Do Performance Pressures and Public Participation Demands Affect a City Agency’s Network Behavior? An Analysis of Interagency Networks in Seoul Metropolitan Government Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Jooho Lee
Abstract Over the past decades, government agencies have been under increasing institutional pressures to improve performance while engaging the public in decision-making processes. This study aims to explore how agency managers perceive institutional pressures and how these pressures shape their network behaviors for interagency collaboration. Specifically, this research focuses on structural holes
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How and When Democratic Values Matter: Challenging the Effectiveness-Centric Framework in Program Evaluation Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Yixin Liu, Heewon Lee, Frances Berry
Abstract Performance information is overwhelmingly used in program evaluation by both public managers and external stakeholders. In the market-based New Public Management movement, effectiveness is public programs’ major selling point. However, this approach may marginalize the role of democratic values in governance. In the current complex society with anti-government sentiments, we embrace the idea
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When Are Commercialized Nonprofits Less Likely to Offer Free Access? Evidence from the Performing Arts Subsector Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 ChiaKo Hung, Jessica Berrett
Abstract Previous studies have found that commercialized nonprofits may be less likely to offer free access to programs and services. This study draws on theoretical insights from the literature on nonprofit efficiency, the principal-agent problem, and nonprofit professionalism, going a step further to examine when commercialization leads to the exclusion of those unable to pay. Studying performing
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Seeding Community Intermediary Organizations and the Liability of Growth in Obtaining Local Giving Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Xiaoyun Wang
Abstract Over the past 50 years, philanthropic institutions and governments have invested millions of dollars to support the growth of community intermediary organizations (CIOs) for developing vibrant civic lives. CIOs are community-based nonprofit organizations that do not directly deliver services but support other local nonprofit organizations. The key issue for these investments is how to generate
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Rule Breaking, Bending, and Workarounds: Police Officers and Chiefs’ Coercion-Discretion of Enforcing State Executive Orders Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Étienne Charbonneau, Yves Boisvert, Luc Bégin
Abstract This study examines rule non-compliance from police officers and managers who decide not to enforce certain public health edicts and decrees. It examines rule non-compliance from police officers and managers who decide not to enforce certain public health edicts and decrees. The locus of our study is the severity of the consequences for rule non-compliance for citizens. We test to see whether
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Organizational Performance and Discrimination: Are High-Performing Schools Less Likely to Discriminate against Potential Clients? Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Jonas Larsson Taghizadeh
Abstract Recent studies argue that underperforming public organizations are more prone to stereotyping behavior and discrimination. However, empirical research concerning this subject is limited and focuses only on employment discrimination based on ethnicity. This article is the first to study the relationship between organizational performance and discrimination against clients/costumers. It also
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Promises and Challenges of Racial Equity Budgeting from the Perspective of Generally Accepted Performance Principles (GAPP) Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Melissa F. McShea, Yaerin Park, Joseph J. Cordes
Public budgeting scholars and practitioners have developed an approach to formulating and analyzing public expenditures and taxation that has come to be called gender-based budgeting. The case for ...
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Exploring Board Behavior in a Public Context: Experiences from a Swedish Municipal Corporation Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Elin Smith, Timur Uman, Sven-Olof Yrjö Collin
Abstract Based on an eclectic behavioral theoretical approach and institutional logic, this study explores what constitutes board behavior in the public setting. The empirical material relates to a longitudinal case study of a local municipal corporation (MC). Whereas private sector board research tends to highlight the tasks of control and service, we have identified multiple board tasks in Swedish
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New Public Management in the Era of Cutback: Research Performance with Declining Financial Incentives Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Hee-Je Bak, Do Han Kim
Abstract To examine empirically whether the effect of the incentives on individual performance lasts even after the incentive cutbacks, this study analyzed the change in journal publications associated with the pay-for-performance incentives in a Korean university in which the trend of performance-based financial incentives took a reversed U-shape. The panel data on the research performance of 310
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Organizational Performance and Government Resource Allocation: Panel Evidence from Washington State’s Public Programs Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Sungho Park
Whether organizational performance shapes government resource allocations or not has long been a contentious issue, especially since the 1990s when the New Public Management movement vitalized perf...
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Can We Mitigate Covid-19 Related Work Strain Among Civil Servants? Examining the Role of Organizational Commitment, Job Autonomy and Workplace Social Support Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2022-11-18 Dries Van Doninck, Danika Pieters, Jan Wynen, Bjorn Kleizen, Stéphanie Verlinden, Koen Verhoest
Abstract The extraordinary measures taken to constrain infections with the coronavirus may have altered the known psychological processes preventing stress and strain in the public workplace. We use survey data of a large public organization in Belgium to look at the capacity of affective organizational commitment, perceived job autonomy, and workplace social support to buffer the impact of Covid-19
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Motivations behind Vaccine Hesitancy: Examining Altruism and Government Distrust across Job Sectors during COVID-19 Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 JungHo Park, Yongjin Ahn
Abstract This article examines vaccination and vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic by focusing on the role of altruism and distrust in government across different job sectors. Using the Household Pulse Survey, a nationally representative and near real-time dataset administered by the United States Census Bureau, our findings suggest that there is a clear difference in vaccine take-up and
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The Impact of Boundary Spanning by Public Managers on Collaboration and Infrastructure Project Performance Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Shreya Anna Satheesh, Stefan Verweij, Ingmar van Meerkerk, Tim Busscher, Jos Arts
Abstract The public sector is increasingly collaborating with the private sector in the development of large-scale public infrastructure projects. However, the difficulties arising due to working across organizational boundaries are often detrimental to project performance. This article argues that boundary-spanning activities can enhance the quality of collaboration and subsequently the performance
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Are Highly Public Service–Motivated Individuals Immune to Common Causes of Unethical Behavior? Calibrating the Moderating Role of Group Pressure and Competition for Economic Resources Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2022-10-20 Guillem Ripoll, Enrique Hernández, Xavier Ballart
Abstract Previous research has neglected the moderating role of the environment in studying the negative effect of public service motivation (PSM) on unethical behavior. This article investigates whether this effect prevails under group pressure and competition for economic resources. Moreover, it assesses whether these moderating effects can be counterbalanced by activating public values. Using a
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Entrepreneurial Performance: Determinants of Performance in Stimulus-Oriented Granting Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Jessica N. Terman
Abstract Local governments consistently face challenges of economic depression and the unexpected events that precipitate them, such as COVID-19. The depressions leave governments taxed for resources, infrastructure, and time. These depressions are often helped by large infusions of federal grant dollars, otherwise known as stimulus-oriented granting. Key variables in determining success in spending
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Occupation Matters! A Multilevel Analysis of Organizational Trust in Professional Bureaucracies in the Healthcare Sector Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Martina Hartner-Tiefenthaler, Ann-Marie Nienaber, Takuya Yanagida
Abstract This study investigates in the healthcare sector how occupation influences the relationship between organizational procedural justice and employees’ trust in the supervisor and in the organization. Drawing on the dual hierarchy model in professional bureaucracies, we adopt a multi-level approach and pay close attention to the influence of the occupational group and its immediate organizational
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Leveraging Digital Infrastructure for Pandemic Governance: Preparation, Praxis, and Paradox Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Yonghua Zou
Abstract Many cities around the world have adopted digital technologies to combat COVID-19, but they have experienced varying degrees of success. This research developed an analytical framework involving the components of “preparation”, “praxis”, and “paradox” regarding a city’s leveraging of digital infrastructure for pandemic governance. Then, the case of Hangzhou is employed to illustrate this framework
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Who Loves Lockdowns? Public Service Motivation, Bureaucratic Personality, and Support for COVID-19 Containment Policy Public Performance & Management Review (IF 2.806) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Yongjin Ahn, Jesse W. Campbell
Abstract Policies adopted to curb the spread of COVID-19 impose limits on individual freedom and although some citizens have consistently supported containment policy, others have resisted. Beyond political orientation, however, little research has explored the attitudinal basis of support for stringent virus containment policy. We argue that individuals with high levels of public service motivation