International Journal of Public Sector Management: Volume 36 Issue 1

The role of EU funding in EU member states: building administrative capacity to advance administrative reforms

Vitalis Nakrošis, Sorin Dan, Rasa Goštautaitė

Despite the growing volume of European Union (EU) investments into reforms and public administration, how EU support contributes to administrative reform and capacity building at…

Intellectual capital disclosure and its determinants in healthcare organisations – Evidence from Italy

Giuseppe Nicolò, Diana Ferullo, Natalia Aversano, Nadia Ardito

The present study aims to extend the knowledge of intellectual capital disclosure (ICD) disclosure practices in the Italian Healthcare Organisations (HCOs) context. The ultimate…

Towards a holistic customer value approach in managing public health care services: a developers' view

Hanna Komulainen, Satu Nätti, Saila Saraniemi, Pauliina Ulkuniemi

Recent literature within public service logic has called for more explicit conceptualisation of customer value in public services. This study aims to fill this gap by examining…

Coping with organizational changes due to executives’ succession: the role of personal and contextual resources for job crafting

Filomena Buonocore, Marcello Russo, Davide de Gennaro

Each time there is a government change (indeed a very frequent scenario for Italy), and the leadership team of strategic offices and operations in the public administration is…

Accounting and accountability in Muslim secondary schools in Tanzania: a Bourdieusian perspective

Siasa Issa Mzenzi

This paper investigates the relationship between accounting and accountability practices in Muslim secondary schools in Tanzania using Bourdieusian perspective. The purpose of…

Is “justice hurried actually justice buried”? An organisational perspective of the Italian criminal justice

Roberta Troisi, Gaetano Alfano

This study investigates the presence of a productivity–quality trade-off in judicial decisions from an organisational standpoint, focusing on the courts as bureaucracies. Applied…