Institutional pressures, policy attention, and e-government service capability: evidence from China's prefecture-level cities

T Pan, B Fan - Public Performance & Management Review, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Exploring the “institutional pressures–policy attention–innovation performance” link is
essential for public managers to address the differentiated development between regions for …

Do reputational threats influence the rigidity of US agencies? A dynamic panel data approach

J Boon, J Wynen, K Verhoest - Public Administration Review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
What happens to organizational rigidity when public organizations faced reputational threats
over time? Do they take external criticism as incentives to become less rigid and more …

Nature or nurture? Agency life‐cycles as a function of institutional legacy, political environment, and organizational hardwiring

B Kleizen, M MacCarthaigh - Public Administration Review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A growing body of literature attempts to explain the life‐cycles of public sector organizations.
Of particular interest have been the form and incidence of their birth and termination, and …

How does policy attention affect e-government performance? The role of resource allocation and public–private collaboration

T Pan, B Fan - International Review of Administrative …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Although governments are continually investing in e-government construction, differences in
e-government performance exist. This study aims to examine how policy attention affects e …

Written directives and ministerial tenure in China: a novel gauge for political performance?

S Chen, T Christensen, L Ma - Journal of Asian Public Policy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
While prior research on Chinese political elites has predominantly centred on local officials,
assessing the performance of ministers may pose significant challenges. This paper uses …

Strategic Communication and Public Marketing for Territory Positioning in Ukraine: Media Engagement, Resource Utilization, and Image Formation

O Uhodnikova, R Oleksenko, GT Cirella… - Handbook on Post-War …, 2024 - Springer
This chapter investigates three mechanisms of public marketing in the context of postwar
Ukraine: media engagement, resource utilization, and advertising. Public marketing plays a …

Where you are matters: Network position, designed network, and central government agency termination

L Ma, W Liu, S Chen, T Christensen - Public Administration - Wiley Online Library
This study synthesizes insights from collaborative network and agency termination theories
to investigate how agencies' positions in designed networks impact their survival probability …

Comment l'attention des pouvoirs publics affecte-t-elle les performances de l'administration en ligne? Le rôle de l'allocation des ressources et de la collaboration …

T Pan, B Fan - Revue Internationale des Sciences Administratives, 2024 - shs.cairn.info
Résumé Bien que les gouvernements investissent continuellement dans la construction de
l'administration en ligne (ou gouvernement électronique, e-gouvernement), les …

Decentralization, local information, and effort substitution: Evidence from a subnational decentralization reform in China

S Chen, L Yuan, W Wang, B Gong - Governance - Wiley Online Library
This study examines whether and how information asymmetry affects local governments'
gaming behaviors in a decentralization reform. We contend that adequate access to local …