This article examines the effect of specific new public management (NPM)-related characteristics to explain innovation-oriented culture within sector organizations. According NPM doctrines, an enhanced managerial autonomy combined with result control will stimulate a more in such Using multi-country survey data over 200 agencies, we test for influence organizational autonomy, and their interactions, on culture. High levels have independent positive effects. However, interaction between high...

In this article we examine the innovative culture and activity of 121 Norwegian Flemish state agencies, based on an analysis survey data. We variations in from a structural-instrumental perspective, cultural-institutional task-related perspective environmental-institutional perspective. use regression analyses to reveal effect managerial autonomy, result control, agency size, age, organizational performance culture, individual incentive service delivery tasks, source income geographical...

Taking an institutional perspective, in this article we develop index of the governmental support for public private partnership (PPP) — a 'PPP Governmental Support Index' (GSI) which aims to measure extent national governments provide framework that is either conducive or preventive introduction and diffusion PPPs within transport infrastructure other sectors. First, based on substantive review literature, define elements PPP GSI, including policy political commitment regarding PPPs, legal...

This article first provides a selective overview of the literature on bureaucratic autonomy and identifies different approaches to this topic. The second section discusses three major sets open questions, which will be tackled in contributions special issue: subjective, dynamic relational nature autonomy; complex linkages between tasks, organizational forms, national path dependencies one hand performance other hand; interplay autonomy, accountability democratic legitimacy.

Governments worldwide are relying on the COVID-19 vaccines as solution for ending coronavirus pandemic and resulting crisis. Although scientific progress in development of a vaccine has been astonishing, policymakers facing an extra hurdle increasingly more people appear to be hesitant their intention take such vaccine. Based large Corona survey Belgium, this study aims explain vaccination by linking it trust government experts, while accounting individuals’ risk perceptions prosocialness.

According to New Public Management (NPM) doctrines, public organizations involved in service delivery and policy implementation will be induced innovative behavior if they have enough managerial autonomy simultaneously are subjected pressure, such as result control by government or competition of other providers. This NPM pressure‐response model is tested using survey data on 84 Flemish organizations. These tests provide evidence for the assumed effect NPM‐like pressure However, empirical...

It is believed that the New Public Management (NPM) doctrine resulted in a disaggregation and suboptimal fragmentation of government 1980s 1990s, which called for re-strengthening coordination capacity through renewed hierarchy-type mechanisms, market-type mechanisms network-type mechanisms. In order to assess validity this assumption, article identifies trajectory specialization four countries (New Zealand, United Kingdom, Sweden, France). The results support although different trajectories...

A call for an increased use of standard contracts in public–private partnerships (PPPs) infrastructure development is noticeable practice. These are expected to simplify and improve procurement by creating opportunities learning, lower transaction costs, better competition. This paper delineates PPP as a new venue research unfolds their potential impact. Here lies important challenge since the benefits standardization not straightforward they look at first sight, particularly when taking...

In the last decade a considerable number of PPP contracts in Europe turned out to be instable and were renegotiated. This paper studies which combinations conditions terms macro-level business environment governmental support at project-level (remuneration scheme, risk allocation, project age contract duration) contribute avoid renegotiation, by conducting qualitative comparative analysis twenty five European road infrastructure projects. Results show that although broader has clear...

Abstract A crucial challenge for the coordination of horizontal policy programs—those designed to tackle crosscutting issues—is how motivate government organizations contribute such programs. Hence, it is study practitioners in implementing view and appreciate Assisted by Q‐methodology, this inductive reveals three significantly different “images”: central frame setting, networking via boundary spanners, beyond window dressing. Most surprisingly, images show up among respondents within same...

Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to study which factors drive compliance and how the evolving context in society –virus fluctuations changing government measures – changes impact of these factors. Extant literature lists many that notably enforcement, trust, legitimacy. Most studies, however, do not look across time: whether for citizens driving compliance. In this study, we use Lindenberg's Goal Framing Theory explain dynamics drivers during pandemic. We...

Public–private partnership (PPP) has been positioned as a relevant contracting method for developing large-scale infrastructure projects that entails potentially high-magnitude negative impacts on the environment. The effectiveness of environmental impact assessment (EIA) is crucial to achieving sustainable development these projects. To unravel drivers EIA and multiple combinations built by complexity drivers, this paper analyzes 28 road PPP from Colombia employing fuzzy-set qualitative...

What effects do new control mechanisms have that governments use to monitor the performance of quasi‐autonomous public agencies? The under review are managerial autonomy, contracts, financial incentives, and competition. Using principal‐agent theory, a theoretical model is developed. In order assess its value for further empirical research this then confronted with evidence an in‐depth case study Flemish agency, which encompasses two embedded cases. case, four seem induce agency...

Collaboration between public sector organizations is typically understood as a response to complexity. Agencies collaborate in order address complex, cross-cutting policy needs that cannot be met individually. However, when organizational size constraining factor service efficiency, collaboration can also reduce costs by capturing scale economies unavailable of sub-optimal size. Using organization theory, the article conceptualizes these two different triggers for collaboration, and builds...

Public organizations were once seen as the epitome of stability and implacability. More recently, however, public have been subject to fast-paced environmental change. One common response challenges posed by these volatile environments has adoption various organizational changes make more adaptable. However, following threat-rigidity theory, this study argues that employees perceive multiple changes, managerial support for innovative work behavior (IWB) decreases. Analyses on Australian...