International Journal of Public Sector Management: Volume 37 Issue 5

Employee readiness for change: examining the combined effects of individual and organizational demands in public school reform

Cyrill Julian Kalbermatten

The paper aims to clarify how work-specific characteristics at both the individual and organizational level influence professional civil servants’ readiness for change during the…

The many roads to reform: a configurational analysis of the conditions supporting performance management implementation

Juliet Ann Musso, Christopher Weare, Robert W. Jackman

The goal is to illuminate the requisites for the implementation of performance management reforms in a public bureaucracy.

Stakeholder management within PPP-arranged civil engineering megaprojects: a systematic literature review of challenges, critical success factors and stakeholder roles

Carolina Busco, Jeffrey Walters, Exequiel Provoste

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have become integral in delivering public services and infrastructure, particularly in the context of megaprojects. This paper focuses on the…

Absorptive capacity, entrepreneurial orientation and organizational performance in state-owned companies

Paulo Henrique Studart Pinho, José Milton de Sousa-Filho, Bruno de Souza Lessa, Josimar Sousa Costa

The objective of this article is to analyze the relationship between absorptive capacity, entrepreneurial orientation, and performance within Brazilian federal state-owned…

Lessons from a Black Swan: professionals in local co-production prior to and during Covid-19

Anna Uster

This study examines co-production during the Covid-19 crisis, characterized as a Black Swan event, with a specific emphasis on local professionals’ preparedness and response.

Procurement-network contributions to healthcare supply chain resilience: a case study from Canada

Martin Beaulieu, Salomée Ruel, Olivier Dupouet

This article investigates how the healthcare sector can reorganize its procurement network to better balance its resilience and cost-minimization objectives.