Existing conceptualizations and measures of transformational transactional leadership have unclear theoretical bases, confound its effects, are not necessarily suitable for public organizations. Overcoming these problems is necessary to test how affects performance. Many administration scholars apply the concepts, emphasizing need ensure that concepts applicable in both private The article reconceptualizes develops tests revised can be employed on employees leaders, robust terms repeated use...

Although politicization is a perennial research topic in public administration to investigate relationships between ministers and civil servants, the concept still lacks clarification. This article contributes this literature by systematically identifying different conceptualizations of suggests typology including three mechanisms strengthen political responsiveness ministerial bureaucracy: formal, functional administrative politicization. The empirically validated through comparative case...

Abstract For public managers facing political and structural constraints, transformational leadership promises to meaningfully improve outcomes by communicating an inspiring vision of the organization. But this promise rests a great degree on communication skills behaviors leader. A better understanding how functions in organizations therefore requires deeper application theory from field communications. This article explores question what facilitate leadership. media richness framework is...

Ministers increasingly rely on advisers for support and advice. In many countries, these political aides are labelled differently. Generally, they serve as close confidants to their masters operate in the ‘shadowland’ between politics bureaucracy. Scholarship has dragged ministerial out of dark described background functions. Still, field scholarship a Westminster bias, is characterized by single case studies, remains under‐theorized. The lack comparative focus theoretical underpinnings can...

Abstract The literature on autonomous public agencies often adopts a top‐down approach, focusing the means with which those can be steered and controlled. This article opens up black box of zooms in their CEO's perceptions hierarchical accountability. focuses felt accountability, denoting manager's (a) expectation to have explain substantive decisions parent department perceived (b) legitimate (c) expertise evaluate decisions. We explore accountability agency‐CEO's its institutional...

What has shaped the different responses to COVID-19? The orthodoxy in crisis management literature holds that response events like COVID-19 is primarily by a decentralized group of actors on ground. In this paper, we argue top-down explanation, focused actions and intentions core executive, an essential complement bottom-up emphasis distributed network. Specifically, advance 'court politics' understanding how governing elites have taken advice made decisions, sketch out impact had framing...

Abstract This article develops and empirically validates a conceptualization of reputation management in public sector context. We define as behaviors intended to identify affect how external audiences perceive an organization, including their perceptions what the organization is, it strives be, organization’s positive impact on society more broadly. Such include strategically communicating vision its most important audiences. The empirical analysis is based survey responses from 499...

Bureaucratic Reputation Theory focuses on external stakeholders, but it is plausible that reputation also plays an important role for internal stakeholders. This article therefore asks whether employees’ perception of their organization’s matters organizational identification and job satisfaction. Based a balanced panel with 193 employees from three Danish agencies surveyed in 2019 2020, the finds relates positively to satisfaction this relation partly mediated by employee’s organization. In...

The concept of public service bargain (PSB) has been reintroduced in recent times to the study administration analyse division roles between ministers and civil context reforms (Hood 2000, 2001, 2002; Hood Lodge 2006). empirical investigation PSB general changes PSBs particular is, however, limited. This article addresses this limitation by investigating what causes bargains, particularly with respect provision advice. As argued Hood, we demonstrate how can be explained a combination...

Danish permanent secretaries, top civil servants in the state administration, are formally both administrative heads of their ministries as well prime advisers to ministers. In this article we analyse whether and how public service bargain (PSB) (Hood Lodge, 2006) secretaries primarily reflects elements a managerial role prescribed many New Public Management reforms or policy adviser is important manager, prescribed. The PSB assessed terms typology Hood including dimensions: reward,...

Abstract Reputation scholars have convincingly demonstrated the relevance of understanding behavior government agencies as motivated by reputational concerns. Yet we must still expand our how agency audiences pass judgments. Combining insights from bureaucratic reputation theory with psychological theories (motivated reasoning and attribution theory), this article theorizes tests whether agencies’ histories increase likelihood receiving positive or negative newspaper coverage. Our findings...

While special advisers play an important role in most Western governments, the research on subject is limited. This article aims to explain variations ménage à trois relationships between ministers, senior civil servants and two different politico-administrative systems. The theoretical starting point conceptualize such trilateral as multiple Public Service Bargains. We find that differences Bargains generate these ménages relationships, resulting types of functional differentiation well...

This article seeks to explain the frequency and tone of media attention for public organisations. Expectations are formulated on impact fundamental organisational features coverage A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) is used analyse nuanced interplay between legal independence, primary task size. The results show that this configurational approach necessary understand which organisations appear in how. Legal size do not operate independently, but combine explaining

Abstract The study of organizational task for understanding how organizations behave and evolve has been one the classic topics in organization theory public administration. Reputation scholarship appeared as a promising perspective to understand internal external dynamics. scholars, too, emphasize critical importance task. Despite this recognition, literature is characterized by lack theorization, large‐scale comparative analyses on characteristics are related reputational This aims address...

This article investigates the involvement of permanent civil servants in strategic communication government organizations within context mediatized democracies. Based upon an argument that is to be seen as part and parcel a functional politicization service, identifies significant positive relationship between media awareness across ministerial hierarchy well pressure politicization, although moderated by organizational level position. these empirical findings, demonstrates how for pursuing...

Ministerial advisers are said to strengthen the political control of bureaucracy. Using a comparative case design, this article investigates claim by studying roles ministerial in government coordination Denmark and Sweden. The demonstrates how differ coordination: Swedish directly through hierarchical authority. bureaucrats functionally differentiated coordination. In contrast, Danish play more indirect role Rather than controlling coordination, they serve reproduce functional...

Although journalism and media coverage are known to induce, inform, affect public accountability processes, little is about media-covered accountability. This study therefore explores processes of Danish Flemish agencies as subjects the news. Drawing on news construction literature, our quantitative content analysis newspaper ( N = 13,540) focuses presence in extent which organizational characteristics (task, political salience, size) related this phenomenon. Horizontal forums have highest...


 Public service motivation (PSM) is a pro-social to serve the public good and shape wellbeing of society. Although key relevance PSM its potential effect on behavior, much evidence impact PSMrelies subjective measures behavior. Additionally, literature has not investigated whether clashes with other types motivation. This paper addresses these limitations by investigating how user orientation (pro-social oriented towards individual user) affect university teachers’ grading behavior in...