Do civil servants in some countries have higher organizational commitment? Is there any
substantial cross-national variation in the form and degree of commitment? Good …

The financial crisis forces public managers to implement cutbacks within their organization.
We argue that adopting a change management perspective contributes to our …

IMPACT This article helps policy-makers and managers understand why politicians tend to
make only limited instrumental use of performance information in the budget process. In …

This study investigates how the negative economic prospects of the COVID‐19 pandemic
affect local government politicians' policy preferences in the Netherlands, the United …

Upon the implementation of the European Union Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
(CBAM), substantial challenges are anticipated to impact the international trade of Chinese …

Despite a voluminous literature on resource availability and the implications for
organizational performance, little is known about how changes in government agencies' …

In most industrialized countries, politicians and policy makers face unprecedented levels of
fiscal pressure. Such pressure has compelled governments to conduct substantial cuts in …

The profound challenges experienced by European countries as a consequence of the fiscal
crisis, combined with the increase in the scope, size, and diversity of inter-municipal …

This article investigates the effects of staffing and employee cutbacks in public safety
agencies in the context of county governments in California, Texas, and Florida (2002 …

Whether organizational performance shapes government resource allocations or not has
long been a contentious issue, especially since the 1990s when the New Public …