International Journal of Public Sector Management: Volume 24 Issue 3

Changed governance of public sector organisations=challenged conditions for intra‐professional relations?

Anna Jansson, Karolina Parding

Effects of NPM in professional work are often discussed on an overriding level, and professionals' own experiences of their working conditions in their specific work contexts have…

Mapping the spatial patterns of public procurement: A case study from a peripheral local authority in Northern England

Ignazio Cabras

The purpose of this paper is to investigate public procurement activity within the Cumbria County Council and its effects on the local supply chain. The paper seeks to identify…

Knowledge sharing among public sector employees: evidence from Malaysia

Manjit Singh Sandhu, Kamal Kishore Jain, Ir Umi Kalthom bte Ahmad

The main purpose of this paper is to: identify the views of public sector employees towards the importance of Knowledge Sharing (KS); identify the barriers to KS; and identify…

Public sector reform in Kazakhstan: issues and perspectives

Shahjahan H. Bhuiyan, Francis Amagoh

This paper aims to investigate public sector reform (PSR) initiatives in Kazakhstan, and how such reform efforts have helped the government to be more responsive to the needs and…

Establishing ex ante public construction supply chain guidelines in the public procurement of schools' estate

Rodney McAdam, Shirley‐Ann Hazlett, Sean Johnston

The purpose of this study is to explore the formative development of construction supply chain guidelines or proposals in a UK region's schools' estates procurement process to…

Leading Indian Railways: corporatization initiatives and challenges

Guru Prakash Prabhakar

Editorial

Joyce Liddle