Public Management Review

Cosa vuol dire per una #città essere #competitiva? Non è solo una questione di #PIL ma anche di #qualità della #vita, #sostenibilità e #performance dei #servizi #pubblici. Il ruolo dei #Comuni è essenziale! L’articolo che abbiamo scritto Maria Cucciniello Hemin Choi e Robert Christensen ed io ha vinto il #bestpaper #award per la rivista Public Management Review tra i migliori #journal di #publicadministration Per saperne di più 👇

✨ New Paper Published! ✨ I'm excited to share my latest work, where I argue that frontline workers need more than discretion to provide customized services. Drawing from theories inspired by jazz improvisation, I explore how ‘minimal structures’ are essential for frontline workers to develop novel, yet consistent and predictable, solutions. Key findings include: 🎷 Minimal structures encompass social practices, professional knowledge, ‘customization templates,’ and – somewhat paradoxically – boundaries that guide the possibilities for customization. 🎷 Street-level managers play a pivotal role, with the potential to both enable and limit customization. 🎷 In the absence of these structures, customization can entail serious risks for both beneficiaries and frontline workers. This paper, the final empirical piece of my dissertation, is now available #openaccess at Public Management Review: https://lnkd.in/ea9JWii7 #customization #frontlineworkers #management #streetlevelbureaucracy #managementbyenabling #ethnography Leiden University - Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

I'm quite happy to share a new article with you all: "Time to rediscover task-oriented leadership? A multi-source, time-lagged study on leadership and well-being in public service jobs" in Public Management Review Joint work with Signe Pihl-Thingvad & Rick Vogel 🔍 Plenty of research can be found on the effects of leadership on followers' well-being. However, it has been criticized that most studies have two substantial flaws here: 1) their concept of well-being is very limited (only hedonic, i.e., job satisfaction) 2) they examine only one type of leadership style or behavior 💡 Well-being, however, is a multidimensional concept that has been widely discussed in psychology. It's not only about happiness (hedonic), but also about personal growth (eudaimonic), and social relations (social well-being). Thus, different leadership behaviors can have very different effects! Leadership behavior supporting on dimension of well-being does not automatically improve other dimensions, and can even have detrimental effects. Thus, a more comprehensive understanding of well-being is crucial. 🤝 Hence, it's important to compare different leadership behaviors. Over the past decades, relation-oriented leadership styles gained high popularity, such as transformational and servant. We argue, however, that we might be missing out on the full picture, when only focusing on one specific type ❗ We compare relations-oriented and task-oriented leadership behavior on all three dimensions of well-being. We find quite diverse effects, highlighting the relevance for the rather 'unsexy' domain of proper task-oriented leadership. In fact, it is task-oriented leadership that increases employees' personal growth and secures good social relations. Relations-oriented leadership on the other hand improves hedonic job satisfaction. Thus, good relations are all fine and dandy, but maybe not enough for an effective organization. On a site note: It has been fantastic to work on this project together with both Signe and Rick. Highly recommended collaborators! https://lnkd.in/dxRV-Mdq

#Wilmasreview of the week Wilma's 🐶 leadership behavior appears to be quite relations-oriented 🫂 But that may not be all you can do as a manager to positively influence the well-being of your employees. A recent study by Matthias Döring, Signe Pihl-Thingvad and Rick Vogel (updated - also it could have been Dominik Vogel 😅) in Public Management Review finds: ➡️ Well-being at work has three components: hedonic (i.e. the pleasant and happy), eudaimonic well-being (i.e. the meaningful), and social well-being (i.e. functioning well in a social context) ➡️  Task-oriented leadership yields positive associations with both social and eudaimonic dimensions of well-being. 🤗 ➡️ Public sector managers and employeess could profit from more task-oriented leadership behavior, not only relation-oriented leadership behavior. ⚒️ 🔗to the study: https://lnkd.in/dW6AqaVs #postdog Kong Frederiks Center for Offentlig Ledelse

𝐍𝐢𝐞𝐮𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞: 𝐨𝐩 𝐰𝐞𝐠 𝐧𝐚𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐨𝐨𝐩 Samen met Andrea S. Patrucco, Katri Kauppi en Carmela Di Mauro hebben we een nieuwe publicatie in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Public Management Review (PMR) met de titel: "Enhancing Strategic Public Procurement: A Public Service Logic Perspective." In het artikel bespreken we hoe publieke inkoop, wereldwijd, verder kan gaan dan vooral kostenbesparingen realiseren en rechtmatigheid controleren, en kan uitgroeien tot een strategische functie die meer publieke waarde creëert. Door de principes van de zogeheten Public Service Logic te gebruiken, bespreken we dat publieke inkoop meer kan bijdragen aan belangrijke beleidsdoelen, zoals duurzaamheid, innovatie en veiligheid 🌍💡🔐. Het artikel introduceert ook een nieuw themanummer over strategische publieke inkoop dat wij hebben gecoördineerd. In het themanummer staan verschillende wetenschappelijke artikelen die laten zien hoe inkoop kan worden ingezet om beleidsdoelen te realiseren. Korte samenvattingen van de artikelen vind je vanaf pagina 13 in ons artikel en de volledige artikelen vind je op de website van PMR. Ons volledige artikel kun je hier vinden: https://lnkd.in/euE6aVbz #PubliekeInkoop #Beleid #DuurzaamInkopen Entrepreneurship @ Utrecht University School of Economics Finance @ Utrecht University School of Economics #eshipuu #utrechtschoolofeconomics Centre for Public Procurement (UUCePP)

🔍 New Publication Alert! 🚨 I’m excited to share our latest publication in Public Management Review: "Enhancing Strategic Public Procurement: A Public Service Logic Perspective", co-authored with Katri Kauppi, Carmela Di Mauro, and Fredo Schotanus. In this paper, we provide a theoretically grounded definition of strategic public procurement and explore how public procurement can move beyond its traditional cost-saving role to become a strategic function that drives public value. By integrating Public Service Logic principles, we show how procurement can align with key policy goals such as sustainability, innovation, and security 🌍🔐💡 This paper also serve to introduce the special issue on Strategic Public Procurement, which gathers diverse perspectives on how public procurement can be leveraged to achieve policy-driven goals. With public procurement accounting for 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions and a significant portion of government spending, the contributions included in the special issue offer different perspectives for transforming procurement practices to address global challenges. A significant thanks to all the authors who contributed to the special issue! Carter B. Casady Ole Helby Petersen Lena Brogaard Kostas Selviaridis Davide Luzzini Carlos Mena Jolien Grandia Rianne Warsen Linh Duong Professor Wendy Phillips Jens Roehrich Craig Cook Marine Grimbert Jon Mikel Zabala-Iturriagagoitia Ville Valovirta Link to our paper and the other contributions in the comment section! #PublicProcurement #PublicManagement #Sustainability #PublicValue #Innovation #Policy

🚨‼️Our call for papers for Public Management Review special issue on Corruption, Integrity and Anticorruption Policy is out‼️‼️ 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 ℹ️ We invite you to submit abstracts and papers exploring the theoretical foundations, contextual factors, and methodological innovations related to assessing the long-term effects, effectiveness, and regional variations of integrity and anti-corruption policies. 📅 Deadline for abstracts is January 1st, 2025 ❓Further Info & Contact - Special Issue Editors Lode De Waele, PhD, Kim Loyens, Jean-Patrick Villeneuve, Giulia Mugellini, Pablo Sanabria-Pulido. Link: https://lnkd.in/epHtpkdP

Really pleased to see this call for papers! Delighted to see corruption entering public management scholarship as decisively as this. Are you doing work on corruption in the public sector? Send it to Public Management Review 👇 BridgeGap Aleksej HEINZE Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Joras Ferwerda Alvise Favotto Alvise Favotto Georgios Kominis Denisse Rodriguez-Olivari Ina Kubbe, PhD Massimo Privitera Iva Parvanova

We are happy to announce a call for abstracts for a special issue in Public Management Review on the evaluation of #integrity and anti-corruption policies. Please submit your work on this important topic or contact any of the guest editors with your questions. More information👇 Guest editors for this special issue: Lode De Waele, PhD Giulia Mugellini Jean-Patrick Villeneuve Pablo Sanabria-Pulido Kim Loyens USBO (Universiteit Utrecht) IRSPM Toon Kerkhoff Leonie Heres Leo (L.W.J.C.) Huberts jeroen maesschalck Dr. Kristina S. Weißmüller Ian Bron Prof.dr. Zeger van der Wal Alexander De Jaeger Wim Vandekerckhove Kate Kenny Muel Kaptein Christoph Demmke Ina Kubbe, PhD Karin Lasthuizen Alain Hoekstra Willeke Slingerland

Several years ago, I teamed up with Dominik Vogel and Matthias Döring to figure out ways in which public organizations can improve labor market success. Relevant because they face considerable problems doing this. As part of this project, we published an instructive paper in Public Management Review: "Motivational signals in public sector job advertisements and how they relate to attracting and hiring candidates," which is now part of the latest issue [26(10)] 📄 https://lnkd.in/exgXNp_Q By analyzing real job advertisements and recruitment procedures with a novel dataset, we were able to uncover key insights into how to attract top talent in the public sector. 🔍 We found that while extrinsic and intrinsic signals don't significantly impact applicant pools, prosocial signals do! 🌱 This research offers data-driven insights for practitioners in the public sector to improve hiring success. If you're interested in optimizing recruitment practices in public organizations, give it a read! [Praxisbericht auf Deutsch: https://lnkd.in/eJ_fbG-A] #PublicSector #Recruitment #HiringSuccess #MotivationalSignals #DataDriven #HRInnovation #PublicAdministration