Cult of the MBA: Implications for European post-experience public management education
(2023)
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Assessing strategic policy transfer in Romanian Public Management (2017)
Journal Article
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
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
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.
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.
Editorial Note (2012)
Journal Article
From London to Beijing: Training and Development as an Agent of Policy Learning in Public Management (2012)
Journal Article
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
International trends in HRM in the public sector: Reform attempts in the Republic of Georgia (2011)
Journal Article
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.
Governance, networks and policy change: The case of Cannabis in the United Kingdom (2009)
Book Chapter
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
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
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
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
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.
Administrative Change In The Asia Pacific: Applying The Political Nexus Triad (2004)
Journal Article
Malaysia: A case of 'business as usual'? (2003)
Book Chapter
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
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.
Privatisation through contracting: The view from local government in the United States (1994)
Journal Article