Strategic planning and implementation success in public service organizations: Evidence from Canada

S Elbanna, R Andrews, R Pollanen - Public management review, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we examine the role that formal strategic planning plays in determining the
success of strategy implementation in a set of more than 150 public service organizations …

How to counter organisational inertia to enable knowledge management practices adoption in public sector organisations

M Ashok, MSM Al Badi Al Dhaheri, R Madan… - Journal of Knowledge …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose Knowledge management (KM) is associated with higher performance and
innovative culture; KM can help the public sector to be fiscally lean and meet diverse …

Street-level management: A clientele-agent perspective on implementation

D Gassner, A Gofen - Journal of Public Administration Research …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
It is now widely accepted that public policy is not merely about its formal wording but rather
the ways it is implemented. Implementation portrayals are not uniform: some focus on street …

Dynamic managerial capabilities, organisational capacity for change and organisational performance: the moderating effect of attitude towards change in a public …

S Widianto, YD Lestari, BE Adna… - Journal of …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The aim of this study is to explore dynamic managerial capabilities (DMCs) and
their effect on public organisational performance. While the previous research has focused …

Line managers' perceptions of diversity management: insights from a social exchange theory perspective

S Nachmias, F Mitsakis, E Aravopoulou… - Employee Relations …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Drawing on the social exchange theory, this study aims to explore line managers'
perceptions of diversity management, as well as their perceptions of their role and …

Staff support and administrative capacity in strategic planning for local sustainability

CV Hawkins, RM Krause, A Deslatte - Public Management Review, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Strategic plans are widely used by municipalities as a means of directing their own activities,
but relatively few studies have examined factors associated with cities' decisions to embed …

Promoting work engagement in public administrations: the role of middle managers' leadership

A Ancarani, F Arcidiacono, CD Mauro… - Public Management …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study aims at exploring the role of middle managers' leadership style in promoting work
engagement in public administrations. Building on leadership theory, the work engagement …

Public management research over the decades: what are we writing about?

SP Osborne - Public Management Review, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Public Management Review (PMR) has just completed its eighteenth volume. It commenced
publication in 1999 with Blair as prime minister of the United Kingdom and Clinton as …

Resisting or Facilitating Change? How Street-Level Managers' Situational Work Contributes to the Implementation of Public Reforms

L Klemsdal, TA Andreassen… - Journal of Public …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Managers of street-level organizations play an important role in the successful
implementation of public reforms. A prevailing view within the public administration literature …

Competencies for effective public middle managers

I Sudirman, J Siswanto, J Monang… - Journal of Management …, 2019 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate a set of competencies that characterizes
effective public middle managers. Design/methodology/approach A total of 20 middle …