Different design choices in the controls used to manage performance often lead to a range
of unintended consequences, which have profound effects on individuals and organizations …

Background: Research rankings based on bibliometrics today dominate governance in
academia and determine careers in universities. Method: Analytical approach to capture the …

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to present the landscape of the cash-per-publication
reward policy in China and reveal its trend since the late 1990s. Design/methodology …

Public service motivation research has proliferated in parallel with concerns about how to
improve the performance of public service personnel. However, scholarship does not always …

Public sector organizations have the responsibility to provide public services, while having
to deal with a dynamic and turbulent environment and budget constraints. The pressure to …

The long-standing discussion on decoupling has recently moved from adopters not
implementing the agreed-upon policies to compliant adopters not achieving the goals …

New Public Management (NPM) has been guiding public sector reform for over 25 years. Its
position on the design of effective management control rests on three key ideas:(1) …

This study examines the relations among various types of management control, intrinsic and
extrinsic motivation, and performance in the public sector. We draw on motivation crowding …

Based on our review of the past 40 years of strategy implementation research, we find that
the focus of the research area has moved from the pioneering structural control view to a …

The relationship between HRM and well-being has received a significant amount of
research attention; however, results are still contested. Our study addresses this …