Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (22)

The Public Management of Private Debt? The UK Government's Regulatory Regime (2024)
Journal Article
Common, R. (in press). The Public Management of Private Debt? The UK Government's Regulatory Regime. Teaching Public Administration,

According to the Money Charity, the average household debt, including mortgages, stood at just over £64,000 at the end of March 2024. The combination of inflationary pressures, fiscal shock brought about by the short-lived Truss government and persis... Read More about The Public Management of Private Debt? The UK Government's Regulatory Regime.

Assessing strategic policy transfer in Romanian Public Management (2017)
Journal Article
Common, R., & Gheorghe, I. (2019). Assessing strategic policy transfer in Romanian Public Management. Public Policy and Administration, 34(3), 287-307. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076717730427

The notion of strategic policy transfer builds upon existing accounts of policy transfer that assume selectivity in terms of what governments choose to learn from abroad. This article analyses the case of public administration in Romania, which, at f... Read More about Assessing strategic policy transfer in Romanian Public Management.

Leadership and elite interviews: Researching the challenges of EU rail integration in a Single European Rail Area (2016)
Journal Article
Common, R., & Schara, T. (2016). Leadership and elite interviews: Researching the challenges of EU rail integration in a Single European Rail Area. International Journal of Public Leadership, 12(1), 32-51. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijpl-03-2016-0007

The focus of this article is a critical evaluation of constructivist-grounded theory in elite interviews, the methodology used for this research. The research is about the challenges of the EU rail industry integration as seen and told by the involve... Read More about Leadership and elite interviews: Researching the challenges of EU rail integration in a Single European Rail Area.

The internationalization of performance management and budgeting: Limitations in the Gulf States (2014)
Book Chapter
Common, R. (2014). The internationalization of performance management and budgeting: Limitations in the Gulf States. In C. Conteh, & A. Shafiqul Huque (Eds.), Public Sector Reforms in Developing Countries: Paradoxes and Practices. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203797587

Performance management and budgeting (PMB) is an unmistakeable international trend in public sector management. This chapter outlines a brief examination of the evolution of PMB in public administration to identify a model, or at least a set of pract... Read More about The internationalization of performance management and budgeting: Limitations in the Gulf States.

Policy Transfer and Learning in Public Policy and Management: International Contexts, Content and Development (2013)
Book
Carroll, P., & Common, R. (Eds.). (2013). Policy Transfer and Learning in Public Policy and Management: International Contexts, Content and Development. London: Routledge

A typical image of the making and administration of policy suggests that it takes place on an incremental basis, involving public servants, their ministers and, to a more limited extent, a variety of interest groups. Yet, much policy making is based... Read More about Policy Transfer and Learning in Public Policy and Management: International Contexts, Content and Development.

From London to Beijing: Training and Development as an Agent of Policy Learning in Public Management (2012)
Journal Article
Common, R. (2012). From London to Beijing: Training and Development as an Agent of Policy Learning in Public Management. International Journal of Public Administration, 35(10), 677-683. https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2012.688086

The education and training of international public managers is a powerful mechanism for policy learning and transfer. In a way similar to the globalization of MBA studies, which has contributed to the international diffusion of Western derived manage... Read More about From London to Beijing: Training and Development as an Agent of Policy Learning in Public Management.

Leadership in the Sultanate of Oman (2011)
Book Chapter
Common, R. (2011). Leadership in the Sultanate of Oman. In B. D. Metcalfe, & F. Mimouni (Eds.), Leadership Development in the Middle East (152-168). Edward Elgar Publishing

International trends in HRM in the public sector: Reform attempts in the Republic of Georgia (2011)
Journal Article
Common, R. (2011). International trends in HRM in the public sector: Reform attempts in the Republic of Georgia. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 24(5), 421-434. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513551111147150

Purpose
The overall purpose of this paper is to explore the limits of HRM in public sector organisations, within the context of international public management. The cultural basis of HRM, derived chiefly from North America and Western Europe continu... Read More about International trends in HRM in the public sector: Reform attempts in the Republic of Georgia.

Barriers to developing 'leadership' in the Sultanate of Oman (2011)
Journal Article
Common, R. K. (2011). Barriers to developing 'leadership' in the Sultanate of Oman. International Journal of Leadership Studies, 6(2), 215-228

Very little is understood about the applicability of the concept of leadership in the Arab Gulf States in general, and the Sultanate of Oman in particular. This article considers the unique context of Oman to produce an interpretation of leadership w... Read More about Barriers to developing 'leadership' in the Sultanate of Oman.

Governance, networks and policy change: The case of Cannabis in the United Kingdom (2009)
Book Chapter
Acevedo, B., & Common, R. (2009). Governance, networks and policy change: The case of Cannabis in the United Kingdom. In S. P. Osborne (Ed.), The New Public Governance? Emerging Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203861684

The two coterminous concepts of governance and policy networks have been reasserted in public management studies in the wake of the recent decline in the popularity of the so-called New Public Management (NPM) movement. The concepts appear to be inte... Read More about Governance, networks and policy change: The case of Cannabis in the United Kingdom.

Administrative change in the Gulf: Modernization in Bahrain and Oman (2008)
Journal Article
Common, R. (2008). Administrative change in the Gulf: Modernization in Bahrain and Oman. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 74(2), 177-193. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852308089902

States in the Middle East tend to be overlooked by researchers in comparative public administration. However, these states offer potentially useful insights into the nature of administrative change as they defy standard assumptions about pressures fo... Read More about Administrative change in the Gulf: Modernization in Bahrain and Oman.

Public sector capacity reform in ethiopia: A tale of success in two ministries? (2007)
Journal Article
Mengesha, G. H., & Common, R. (2007). Public sector capacity reform in ethiopia: A tale of success in two ministries?. Public Administration and Development, 27(5), 367-380. https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.456

To enhance the capacity of public institutions in Ethiopia and to create an ideal environment for investment and economic growth, the public sector has gone through a series of reform processes including the civil service. This article attempts to as... Read More about Public sector capacity reform in ethiopia: A tale of success in two ministries?.

Governance and the management of networks in the public sector: Drugs policy in the United Kingdom and the case of cannabis reclassification (2006)
Journal Article
Common, R., & Acevedo, B. (2006). Governance and the management of networks in the public sector: Drugs policy in the United Kingdom and the case of cannabis reclassification. Public Management Review, 8(3), 395-414. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719030600853188

This essay utilizes policy network analysis to examine UK drugs policy within the wider context of the government's approach to joined-up governance. While confronting the definitional problems and limitations associated with the policy network conce... Read More about Governance and the management of networks in the public sector: Drugs policy in the United Kingdom and the case of cannabis reclassification.

Organisational learning in a political environment: Improving policy-making in UK government (2004)
Journal Article
Common, R. (2004). Organisational learning in a political environment: Improving policy-making in UK government. Policy Studies, 25(1), 35-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144287042000208224

This article observes that the political environment will always compromise the application of the organisational learning concept in government. In an attempt to overcome this problem, it seeks to demonstrate that a conceptual synthesis between poli... Read More about Organisational learning in a political environment: Improving policy-making in UK government.

Public Management and Policy Transfer in Southeast Asia (2004)
Book Chapter
Common, R. (2004). Public Management and Policy Transfer in Southeast Asia. In M. Evans (Ed.), Policy Transfer in Global Perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315246574

This chapter challenges the notion that New Public Management (NPM) is being globalized. The impact of NPM was analysed in relation to three governments in South-East Asia - Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. The multi-level approach to the study of... Read More about Public Management and Policy Transfer in Southeast Asia.

Malaysia: A case of 'business as usual'? (2003)
Book Chapter
Common, R. (2003). Malaysia: A case of 'business as usual'?. In A. Cheung, & I. Scott (Eds.), Governance and Public Sector Reform in Asia: Paradigm Shift or Business as Usual?. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203221693

In terms of economic policy, the Asian financial crisis provoked a very individual response from Malaysia. Unlike its near neighbours, Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea, Malaysia refused to countenance the possibility of swallowing the prescription... Read More about Malaysia: A case of 'business as usual'?.

Convergence and transfer: A review of the globalisation of new public management (1998)
Journal Article
Common, R. (1998). Convergence and transfer: A review of the globalisation of new public management. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 11(6), 440-450. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513559810244356

There is much talk about a new global paradigm in public administration. However, many claims surrounding the existence of this new paradigm remain largely unsubstantiated. This article reviews some of these claims by attempting to explain how new pu... Read More about Convergence and transfer: A review of the globalisation of new public management.