research articles on public management

ARPA focuses on public administration broadly defined, encompassing organization and management studies, leadership, performance measurement and management systems, budgeting and financial management, network governance, and nonprofit management, among other topics.

PDF | On Jun 4, 2021, Tom Entwistle published Public Management: A Research Overview | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate.

The results of a multi-level random-effects meta-analysis based on 486 effect sizes from 151 studies show that correlations are stronger for the achievement of beneficial than for the prevention of detrimental outcomes, as well as for group- and organization-related than for employee-related outcomes.

PMRA furthers research on public organizations and their management by organizing and sponsoring the annual PMRC, as well as other conferences and symposia. Learn more about PMRA's newest journal, Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (PPMG).

Public Management Review seeks to: explore the developing field of public management. embrace research both about the strategic and operational management of public services and about social/public policy development and implementation.

Based on a systematic review of 212 studies, this article presents public sector top managers as actors in a system that responds to internal and external inputs and engages in a series of decisional, interpersonal, and informational processes to obtain individual and organizational outcomes.

Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (PPMG) is the newest journal of the Public Management Research Association. PPMG is dedicated to theory development and conceptual work challenging and advancing the field of public affairs. Find out more.

Research in the field of public administration has changed and advanced significantly in recent years. These advancements concern both how we engage in research—such as the methods we apply, the interdisciplinary nature of the theories we use, and the research questions we ask.

Going forward, seven key concerns stand at the forefront of possible progress in public administration theory and practice. That progress is important to the robust health of government, and therefore to society, but only if it is salient to the public and its media and political surrogates.

We review 41 studies related to five theoretical expectations: Public managers experience a more complex stakeholder environment, stricter accountability demands, more ambiguous goals, less autonomy, and different values than their private sector counterparts do.