...Julian Dobson; Will Eadson; Nicola Dempsey Purpose This article examines attempts to transform the funding, governance and management of municipal green spaces. It advances knowledge on what enables or prevents systemic change, focusing on the function and potential of rules within a three-year...

...Özgün Imre Purpose This paper aims to explore how governance and accountability in municipal corporations (MCs) are dynamically negotiated. It proposes the Straussian package – comprising negotiated order theory, social worlds and arenas – as an analytical lens to capture the fluid, multi-actor...

...Matteo Cristofaro; Nicola Cucari; Anastassia Zannoni; Francesco Laviola; Antonella Monda; Davide Liberato Lo Conte; Pinalba Schilleci; Leul Girma Haylemariam; Simona Margareta Mare Purpose Micro-municipalities are a widespread form of local government worldwide. However, research into micro...

...Dion Curry Purpose This paper examines to what extent blockchain creates legitimacy and trust in different modes of public governance. It posits that while blockchain aims for political legitimacy through decentralising, immutable and consensus-based mechanisms, the execution of these mechanisms...

...Eduardo Acosta Llano; Pia Hurmelinna-Laukkanen; Lauri Haapanen Purpose This study examines the intricate interplay of blockchain, public governance and the circular economy (CE), aiming to assess the potential of blockchain technology (BT) in addressing challenges associated with the adoption...

... “accountability hole” and “accountability black hole”, stemming from “pushing power game” and “pulling power game”, respectively, this study considers (1) the three actors of society: citizens (civil society), corporations (market) and civil servants (government), and (2) the principal-agent relationship between...

...Joseph Gerald Tetteh Nyanyofio; Kwame Ameyaw Domfeh; Thomas Buabeng; Theophilus Maloreh-Nyamekye; Nana Nimo Appiah-Agyekum Purpose This study examined the governance and implementation of public–private partnership (PPP) based on the management contract model in the water sector in rural Ghana...

...Shabana Naveed; Aisha Azhar Purpose With governance networks as the critical emerging feature of public administration, this article examines the structure, governance and challenges of networks in the public sector. Using complexity theory, this article explains that control-based relations do...

... of organization neglected by the Public Administration literature, namely justice organizations. This is especially relevant for the delegation literature as it deals with the conflict involved in the delegation of authority to organizations that restrain government action. Comparative studies indicate...

...) different country-specific governance networks (in Klijn et al., 2010 parlance). Documentary analysis contributed to triangulate the data. Data were analyzed through the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (QCA; Ragin, 2000 ; Ragin et al., 2006) method. The results shed...

...Lluís Medir Tejado; Esther Pano Purpose Given the spread of multi-level governance tools, interaction between local and regional governments has become an important mechanism for service delivery and the implementation of public policies. The purpose of this paper is to empirically test a model...

...B. Guy Peters Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationships between governance and a variety of approaches to public administration, especially New Public Management. Design/methodology/approach The study provides a conceptual review of the various approaches to public...

...Mirit Kisner; Eran Vigoda-Gadot Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the views of authors in regard to the provenance and future of PM and the advantages of using management science in administrative science. The authors point to the meaning of both sciences for government studies...

... public service quality in the context of Vietnam’s transition economy. Design/methodology/approach Using individual-level survey data from Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index, the research employs an ordered probit model to test whether greater transparency...

...Kirstine Zinck Pedersen; Peter Kjær Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how the patient comes to be seen as a solution to governance problems. Design/methodology/approach The paper studies health policy discourse in Denmark from 1970 to 2000. Based on an analysis of national policy...

... Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social welfare Governance Professionalism Norway Activation policy Street-level bureaucrats Anniken Hagelund can be contacted at: anniken.hagelund@sosgeo.uio.no 15 02 2016 20 05 2016 14...

...Mohammad Nurunnabi Purpose Due to scarcity of research in governance and accountability in private higher education in developing countries, the purpose of this paper is to explore the tensions surrounding good governance in legitimizing accountability in private universities in developing...

...Mohamed Ismail Sabry Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore theoretically and empirically which institutional factors (including good governance ones) help public-private partnerships (PPP) in providing better infrastructural services, which would then in their turn lead to attracting...

...Dr Giuseppe Grossi, Dr Ulf Papenfuß and Dr Marie-Soleil Tremblay; Lene Tolstrup Christensen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the conceptualisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as a mode of governance in marketisation via the perspective of historical institutionalism...

...Nikolai Mouraviev; Nada K. Kakabadse Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical assessment of legal and regulatory impediments to effective governance of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in Kazakhstan. Design/methodology/approach – The qualitative study develops...