How effective are public managers as they seek to influence how public organizations
deliver policy results? How, and how much, is management related to the performance of …

Resilient organizations maintain functioning during times of unexpected adversity.
Collaboration may enhance resilience by enabling scarce information, resources and …

An extensive literature finds that managerial decisions matter for the performance of public
organizations, yet little attention has been devoted to why managers make the decisions that …

While performance management is increasingly widespread, we still know little about how
performance information generates learning and affects organizational responses. Recent …

This article reports on our systematic effort to measure and model the impact of management
on public programs. Using a parsimonious, nonlinear model of management built by Meier …

The movement for an evidence-based practice of medicine seeks to systematically examine
and challenge current practices in that professional field. This article uses the same …

The literature on performance information use explains how public managers deal with
mainly quantitative data that are systematically collected and formally reported. This article …

Scholars have long recognized the role of race and ethnicity in shaping the development
and design of policy institutions in the United States, including social welfare policy. Beyond …

Understanding how public organizations prioritize goals is crucial in studying goal‐setting in
the public sector. However, the extant literature has mostly adopted a sole‐goal perspective …

The field of policy theory abounds with numerous theories, with each theory having a set of
practitioners that are working independently of the others. Resolving conflicts among policy …