Published in 1997, the article “Treating Networks Seriously: Practical and Research‐Based
Agendas in Public Administration” outlined the importance of networks for the field of public …

Here, Kenneth J. Meier and Laurence J. O'Toole Jr. present a timely analysis of working
democracy, arguing that bureaucracy—often considered antithetical to fundamental …

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 …

Miles and Snow, among others, argue that strategy content is an important influence on
organizational performance. Their typology, applied recently to public organizations in the …

New empirical evidence suggests that service performance is shaped by the strategies
adopted by public organizations and the networking behavior of public managers. Strategy …

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 …

This article reports a comparative study of human resource management (HRM) practices in
Europe. We focus on the extent to which decision‐making authority is decentralized, that is …

Understanding the relationship between organizational performance, gender, and
management is crucial to scholars and practitioners alike. In this article, we focus on whether …

While the field of public management has become increasingly international, research and
policy recommendations that work for one country often do not work for another. Why, for …

Scholars of public management have consistently found that management matters, but little
research has considered how much management matters or whether the link between …