International Journal of Public Sector Management: Volume 37 Issue 4

Shared professional logics amongst managers and bureaucrats in Brazilian social security: a street-level mixed-methods study

Luiz Henrique Alonso de Andrade, Elias Pekkola

This research addresses the professional logics of street-level managers (SLMs) and bureaucrats (SLBs) working in the Brazilian National Social Security Agency (INSS) through…

National and sectoral information technology planning: a systematic literature review

Sirous Alidousti, Farzane Sahli

The public sector (PS) has extensively utilized information technology (IT); however, research reveals that the failure rate remains high, particularly for national and sectoral…

The development and evaluation of a scale to assess job satisfaction in public universities with item response theory: a Brazilian study

Jerko Ledic Neto, Dalton Francisco Andrade, Hai-Yan Helen Lu, Anna Cecilia Mendonca Amaral Petrassi, Antonio Renato Pereira Moro

This study aimed to develop a psychometrically reliable job satisfaction (JS) measure for university employees, guiding administrative decisions and monitoring satisfaction over…

Public administration contributes to happiness: a study on the relationship between public value and happiness in Switzerland

Timo Meynhardt, Pepe Strathoff, Jessica Bardeli, Steven Brieger

In public management research, the focus in the public value debate has been on public administration organizations’ broader societal outcomes. Public value describes how public…

Combining theories to investigate the acceptance of accrual accounting

Michalis Bekiaris, Thekla Paraponti, Foteini Spanou

This paper develops and tests a theoretical model that draws on the Diffusion Contingency Model and the Theory of Human Behavior to explain the factors influencing users’…

Ecosystem approach in public management: insights from the city of Espoo

Kaisu Sahamies, Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko

This article investigates the practical implementation of the ecosystem approach in different branches of public management within an urban context. It explores how ecosystem…

Repowerment beyond empowerment: collaborative accountability of citizens, corporations and civil servants

Junesoo Lee

This article conceptualizes and constructs a comprehensive framework that can better help to answer that question – Who is accountable for social and public problems?  

Fluid workforce management in the health sector: navigating the changing face of workforces and their management

Daniel Samaan, Aizhan Tursunbayeva

This paper demystifies the fluid workforce phenomenon increasingly discussed in the circles of organizational innovators and explores the characteristic aspects of the fluid…