Collaborative public management research is flourishing. A great deal of attention is being
paid to the process and impact of collaboration in the public sector, and the results are …

Governments and businesses increasingly collaborate to innovate public services through
public-private innovation partnerships (PPI), yet little is known about whether and how …

With its growth in popularity, public service motivation (PSM) research has been subjected to
increasing critical scrutiny, but with more focus on measurement and models than on …

In the third edition of his award-winning book, Hal G. Rainey provides a comprehensive, up-
to-date analysis of research on public organizations and management. Drawing on a review …

More than a decade has passed since the publication of Christopher Hood's influential piece
that codified the nature of the New Public Management (NPM)(Hood 1991). At that time it …

Both practitioners and scholars are increasingly interested in the idea of public value as a
way of understanding government activity, informing policy‐making and constructing service …

Abstract Analysis of local government contracting decisions typically focuses on transactions
costs related to service characteristics, especially asset specificity and difficulty of contract …

More than a decade has passed since the publication of Christopher Hood's influential piece
that codified the nature of the New Public Management (NPM) paradigm (Hood 1991). At …

This paper examines how variations in the notion of public sector consumerism become
embedded in diverse governance practices. To this end, we extend the literature on public …

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in-though an insufficient
understanding of-changes in the governance of welfare and related governance regimes …