This article reviews the New Public Management (NPM) literature in central and eastern
Europe (CEE) with the aim of assessing whether reforms have 'worked'. Increasingly …

The paper argues that to govern a pandemic, governments require dynamic capabilities and
capacity—too often missing. These include capacity to adapt and learn; capacity to align …

There are growing pressures for the public sector to be more innovative but considerable
disagreement about how to achieve it. This article uses institutional and organizational …

Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North
America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of …

A ground-breaking account which shows how the public sector must adapt, but also
persevere, in order to advance technology and innovation From self-driving cars to smart …

Effective resource allocation and accountability are critical for public services in countries
facing a crisis, to ensure minimum inequality and even save lives. Administrative innovation …

This article considers the tools and management approaches associated with the “digital‐
era” public sector reform, which many observers suggest has supplanted or should supplant …

Public sector reforms have been a feature of past decades. Many of these reforms reacted
against hierarchy and bureaucracy to shift to markets and networks. Next to New Public …

Despite an abundance of studies on hybridization and hybrid forms of organizing, scholarly
work has failed to distinguish consistently between specific types of hybridity. As a …

This article re-examines the effects of culture on national innovation rates. Pointing to the
innovation success of some East Asian countries, it argues that the cultural dimension of …