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Studygroup 1
Victor Bekkers, Arthur Edwards, Rebecca Moody, Henri Beunders: New media, micro-mobilization and political agenda setting: how young people have used web 2.0 to
change the education agenda in the Netherlands
Kees Boersma, Pieter Wagenaar: Red, white and blue: organizational fragmentation of the Emergency Response Rooms in the City of Amsterdam.
Alexandra Collm: Strategizing in the Public Sector: Roles within Top Management Teams in the IT Strategy Process
J. Ignacio Criado: Public Sector Innovation and the Europeanization of eGovernment. An
Institutional Approach
Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen: WHAT DRIVES TRANSPARENCY OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS: PUSH OR PULL? Explaining the degree of Internet transparency of air quality information in the Netherlands
Claude Rochet, Johanna Habib, Edina Soldo: Using information system as a legitimate subversive agent. The case of the monitoring of French scientific research
Are Vegard Haug: Digital innovation and network leadership: is there a connection?
J. (Kas) Kastelein, Nicole Vos, Luc de Beer: TOWARDS BETTER EVIDENCE BASED NAVIGATION:
PERFORMANCE MONITORING IN 5+ FORMAT. Situation Pictures of 30 Police Units over 2005 - 2007
Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid: ICT Tools in Central Government: Scope, Effects and Driving Forces
Rebecca Moody: Assessing the Implementation of Geographical Information
Systems Innovations in Water Management, Internal Risk Assessment and Dealing with Particulate Matter
Tino Schuppan: Skill Requirements for eGovernment
Stefan Soeparman, Hein van Duivenboden, Teun Oosterbaan, Jasper Ragetlie: Infomediaries and Collaborative Innovation: A case study on Information and Technology centered Intermediation in the Dutch Employment and Social Security Sector
David Spacek: CITIZEN-CENTRIC GOVERNMENT AND SELECTED PRACTICE OF E-PARTICIPATION IN THE CZECH REGIONAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Charlotte van Ooijen: Territorialising eGovernment: Institutional innovation through the use of Location Aware Technologies
Catalin Vrabie: E-Government systems in Romania
C. William R Webster: Technological and Policy Innovation: Reconsidering the Evidence Base Supporting the Provision of CCTV in the UK
Mete Yildiz, Ugur Sadioglu: MANAGING E-GOVERNMENT INNOVATION IN TURKEY: THE CASE OF E-GOVERNMENT ADVISORY GROUP IN THE OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER
Studygroup 2
Stéphanie Andrey, Emilienne Kobelt, Daniel Kubler: Is there a trade-off between diversity and performance? Efficient communication versus multilingualism in the Swiss federal administration
Hector Arambula: Toward a theoretical framework of accountability for performance in public organizations: A review and research agenda
Pierre Bauby: Evaluating the performance of Services of General Economic Interest
Hermann Hil: Quality and Performance Management in the 21st Century – A New Approach
Peter Hupe, Wouter van Dooren: The Politics of Talk and Action: Welfare State Reform and Performance in Belgium and The Netherlands
Gordon Marnoch: Concepts of performance employed in parliamentary oversight. A study of members of the Scottish Parliament Health and Community Care Committee 1999-2007.
Christopher Pollitt, Stephen Harrison, George Dowswell, Roland Bal, Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent: PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: A LOGIC OF ESCALATION?
Zoe Radnor: Understanding the Relationship between Performance and a National Award Scheme
Willem Trommel: GOOD GOVERNANCE AS REFLEXIVE GOVERNANCE. Towards Second-order Evaluations of Public Performance
Steven van de Walle: WHEN DO PUBLIC SERVICES PERFORM? CHANGING AND CONTESTED
DEFINITIONS OF PERFORMANCE IN THE 'SERVICES OF GENERAL INTEREST' DEBATE
Dries Verlet, Carl Devos: Evaluation of performance in the public sector: end or mean?
Peter Watt, Miguel Coelho: Competing concepts of local government performance accountability in England
Studygroup 3
Khalid O. Al-Yahya, Morten Balle Hansen: Leadership, Motivation and Innovation in the Public Sector – a Conceptual Framework for a Cross-Cultural Comparative Research Project
Lotte Bøgh Andersen: State and Profession. Three logics of Health Care Cost Containment
Sonja van der Arend: Dreaming of Water Bodies: The Politics of WFD governance Innovations
Morten Balle Hansen: Variations in the Adoption of New Public Management Practices; Leadership, Context and Types of Innovation
Rik van Berkel, Paul van der Aa, Nicolette van Gestel: New Welfare, New Frontline Workers? Redesigning Case Management in Dutch Local Welfare Agencies
Gabriel van den Brink: Police and Public Credibility; On the Professional Performance of the Dutch Local Police Officer
Bruno Broucker: Transfer of Acieved Managerial and Leadership Competencies in the Belgian Federal Administration
Emanuel Camilleri, Francesco Cerase, Isabell Egger-Peitler, Gerhard Hammerschmid, Annie Hondeghem, Peter Leisink, Renate Meyer, Adrian Ritz, Bram Steijn, Wouter Vandenabeel: Comparing Public Service Motivation within Various European Countries: Do Institutional Environments make a Diference?
Nadia Carboni: Professional Autonomy vs. Political Control: How to Deal with the Dilemma. Some Evidence from the Italian Core Executive
Karolien van Dorpe, Annie Hondeghem, Montuelle Caroline, Christian de Visscher: Assessing the Belgian Mandate System from an International Comparative Perspective
Y. Emery, N. Martin, C. Wyser: Innovation in the Public Sector as Perceived by Street-level Bureaucrats
Sandra Groeneveld: Career Development in the Dutch Civil Service
Jane Järvalt, Tiina Randma-Liiv, Külli Sarapuu: The Case of no Central HR Strategy
Ian Kessler, Sue Dopson, Paul Heron: Professionals and Assistants in the British Health Service: Friend or Foes?
Patrick McGurk: Outcomes of Management and Leadership Development in Public Service Organisations
Adrian Ritz: Leadership Behavior and Performance Oriented Work Conditions: How do they Influence Emplyee Commitment and Public Service Motivation?
Wilma van der Scheer, Kim Putters: A New Role for the Doctor-Manager? The Changing Role of the Medical Hospital Director in a More Competitive and Politicised Environment
Trui Steen: Never no Time to Play. Belgian Bureaucratic Leaders Caught in the Reality of Day-to-day Practices
Hanna Vakkala, Jari Stenvall, Antti Syväjärvi, Risto Harisalo, Juha Perttula: Change Management through Psychosituational Leadership; Personnel Policy in Public Organization's Change Situation
Wouter Vandenabeele: Leadership Promotion of Public Service Values; Transformational Leadership as an Institutional Explanation for Individual Public Service Motivation
Brenda Vermeeren, Ben Kuipers, Bram Steijn, Merel Vogelaar: Human Resource Management and Performance of Public Organizations; A Study of HRM Activities and Public Service Quality of Dutch Municipalities
Turo Virtanen: Leadership in Research; Transformational Leadership and Commitment to Concepts in Knowledge Creation
Studygroup 4
Jacob Aars, Hans-Erik Ringkjob: Local Democracy Ltd.: The Governance of Local Government Enterprises in Norway
Sylvia I. Bergh: Assessing the Scope for Partnerships between Local Governments and Civil Society: Lessons from Morocco
Daughtreyx: Conducting Creativity in Mid-sized Cities: The Case of Springfield, Missouri
Laurens de Graaf: Local Democratic Capacity in Eindhoven
Diana Camelia Lancu: The Chronicle of a Birth Foretold? From 'Government' to 'Joined-up Government' in Decentralising Romania
Pekka Juntunen, Veli-Pekka Nurmi, Jari Stenvall: Crisis Management in Finnish Municipalities
Pekka Kettunen, Vouokko Niiranen, Jari Vuori: The Local Governance Reform and the Transformation of Democracy: The Role of Citizens in the Age of egovernment and Consumerism
Ani Matei, Lucica Matei: Partnership and Local Governance in Romania
P.O. Norell: The Rise of a 'New Administration'; Challenges to Swedish Local Leadership
Julien van Ostaaijen: Policy Discretion in Dutch Local Government: A Rotterdam Regime Change?q
Werner Pleschberger: Safeguarding Local Finances. The Austrian Consultation Mechanism as a Step towards joined-up Government
Arie van Sluis, Peter Marks, Lex Cachet: Innovations in Local Public Safety; Local Public Safety Policies in a Comparative Perspective
José Garcia Solana, Gema Pastor Albaladejo: The One Stop Shop: The Path towards an only Public Administration addressed to Citizens?
Georg Sootla, Tõnis Saarts: Trends in Local Representation and Participation in Transition Societies: Emergence and Specific of Corporate-Elitist Pattern in Estonia
Filipe Teles: Leading Diversity: Mayors in Complex Environments
Brid Quinn: Institutionalizing the partnership mode: Experiences of Local Government in Britain and Ireland
Study Group 5
Alberto Asquer: Governing Fiscal Decentralization in the Start-up Stage: The Regional Tax Agency of Sardinia, Italy
Pedro J. Camões: Explaining Revenue-sharing Institutions: Increasing Local Financial Dependency in Western Europe
Carrol: Intergovernmental Relations and Intergovernmental Organisations
Minna Kaarakainen, Sari Rissanen, Juha Kinnunen: The Future of State and Municipal Relationships; The Balance between Decentralization and Centralization in Health Care
Pekka Kettunen: Regional Policy-making in Finland: Governance of networks or just Top-down Steering
Jacek F. Nowak, Tomasz Potkanski: Countrywide Benchlearning Program as a Source of Innovation and Improvement in Performance of Polish Local Governments in the Area of Local Services Delivery
Edvins Vanags, Ilmars Vanags, Inga Vilka: Innovation of Intergovernmental Relations: From Fragmented Governments to Collaborative Netwerk Governance
Kai Wegrich: Regulatory Innovation and Multi-level Gaming. The Europeanization of Better Regulation Policy
Pieter Zwaan, Henri Goverde: Making Sense of EU State-aid Requirements; The case of Green Services
Studygroup 6
Morten Balle Hansen: Marketization and Economic Performance; Competitive Tendering in the Social Sector
George A. Boyne, Oliver James, Peter John, Nicolai Petrovsky: Should the Bureaucrats Stay or Should They Go? The Impact of Top Management Team Turnover on Public Service Performance
Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid: ICT Tools in Central Government: Scope, Effects and Driving Forces
Sara Demuzere, Koen Verhoest, Geert Bouckaert: Quality Management in Public Sector Organizations: Which Factors do make a Difference?
Julia Fleischer: Agents for 'Better Coordination' in Europe? How Support for Public Sector Reforms and Regulatory Impact Assessments Affects Government Performance
Elizabeth A. Graddy: The Structure and Performance of Inter-organizational Relationships within Public Service Delivery Networks
Alan Jones, James Guthrie: Governing Modernised: Air Navigation Service Providers
Keunsei Kim: Agencificationin Korea: Governance and Performance
Marieke van Genugten: Comparing the Impact of Modes of Governance
Martino Maggetti: Can Agencies Deliver What They Promise? The Reputation fro Credibility and Efficiency of Independent Regulatory Agencies
Kuno Schedler, Matthias Finger: Politics versus Markets: The Role of Public Officials in SOE Boards
Sandra van Thiel: Political Appointments in Dutch Public Sector Organizations: Old and New Forms of Patronage
Studygroup 7
Alan Lawton, Michael Macauly: Mapping a regulatory life cycle: a case study of the Standards Board for England
Claude Rochet: The Common Good as an Invisible Hand: Machiavelli’s legacy to Public Management
Maria Laura Seguiti: Public Personnel Reform in Italy and Its Implications for Corruption: a Comparison with France.
Patrizio Monfardini, Patrick von Maravic: A Tale of Trojan Horses and Stoic Decline: Municipal Auditing in Germany and Italy
Werner Webb: The significance of triangulation in measuring corruption: some general reflections.
Arla Juntunen. Esa Käyhkö: Police Corruption, Ethics and Values of Police and Respondents; A Study Based on a Citizen Survey in Finland
Torben Beck Jørgensen, Karsten Vrangbæk: Value Dynamics: Structuring the Field
Alexandra Mills: Applying the Enforcement Pyramid to Organisational Corruption Prevention
Ari Salminen, Rinna, Ikola-Norrbacka: Trust and Integrity Violations in Finnish Public Administration: A Citizen-based Survey Analysis
Gudrun Vande Walle: Corruption in a Continuum of State-Corporate Conflicts of Interest
Studygroup 8
Angel Saz-Carranza: THE NONPROFIT-PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT: HOW IMMIGRANT NONPROFIT COALITIONS MANAGE COOPERATION AND CONFRONTATION WITH THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Hester van de Bovenkamp, Eelko den Breejen: Working paper Third Sector changes: the case of the patient movement in the Netherlands
Taco Brandsen, Philip Marcel Karre: The Risks of Hybrid Organisations. Expectations and Evidence
Cristina Fusetti: The dilemma of multi-stakeholder sport associations: organizational design and its constraints Remarks on Sport Governance in Three French Sport Federations
Christoph Golbeck: Non-Profit Organisations & Social Service Provision: Chances for new Governance Arrangements in the Third Sector?
Ricardo Corrêa Gomes, Joyce Liddle, Raissa Cristina Lucena Veloso: EMPLOYING THE BALANCED SCORECARD AS A PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL TOOL FOR THIRD SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS: THE CASE OF THE ARTHUR BERNARDES FOUNDATION - BRAZIL
György Jenei: A Post-accession Crisis? Public Sector Modernisation and the Role of CSOs in Hungary
Stephen P. Osborne, Celine Chew: The innovative capacity of voluntary organizations: a key element of coproduction?
Victor Pestoff: Civicness and Co-Production in the Provision of Social Services in Sweden.
Bram Verschuere, Diederik Vancoppenolle: The involvement of the non-profit sector in Flemish child care and elderly care: a comparative exploration of its share in service delivery at the local level
Studygroup 9
Bruno Broucker, Sarah Geens, Christophe Goethals, Annie Hondeghem, Anne Drumeaux: Developing Public Management Expertise in the Belgian Federal Administration. A Partnership between Multiple Stakeholders
Denita Cepiku: Two Ships Passing in the Night? Practice and Academia in Public Management
Gunilla Edelstam: Questions of Facts: Fact-finding, burden of proof and quality of Justice
Frans-Bauke van der Meer: Interaction between Demand and Supply in Mid-career PA Teaching
Witold Mikulowski: Between Tradition and Modernity; Teaching Standards of Public Administration Programs in Poland
P.O. Norell: New Challenges to the Swedish-Norwegian MPA: Time for Reconsideration?
Christoph Reichard: Action Learning with Chinese Characteristics. Human Resource Development with Action Learning in China
Kuno Schedler, Josef Mondl: Action Learning with Chinese Characteristics Human Resource Development with Action Learning in China
Studygroup 10
Paul C. Adriaanse, Tom Barkhuysen, Willemien den Ouden: Implementation of Enforcement Provisions in EU Law
Emile Balan, Grabriela Varia: Ombudsmen and Judicial Power; The Romanian Experience
I. Carlens, E. De Munck, B. Verbeek: Administrative Sanctions and Dispute Settlement: All Bark and no Bite?
Bianca V. Cobârzan, Dacian C. Dragos, Bogdana Neamtu: Transparency in Decision Making: Linking Implementation with Administrative Capacity
Madelina Cocosatu: Analysis of the Constitutional and Legal Relations of the Romanian Ombudsman Institution with the Other Public adn Non-governmental National Authorities
Gavin Drewry: OMBUDSMEN AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW– SHINING STARS IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE?
Bert Marseille, Ruben van der Heide: Obstacles to Final Settlement of Disputes by Administrative Courts in the Netherlands
Soña Skulová: Review of Administrative Decisions in the Conditions of the Czech Republic (with an Emphasis on Effective Adjudication)
Brian Thompson, Richard Kirkham, Trevor Buck: The British/Irish/Australasian Ombudsmen Model: Expansion and Contraction?
Thierry Tanquerel, Frédéric Varone, Arun Bolkensteyn, Karin Byland: Administrative litigation through judicial review in Switzerland: An exploratory analysis
A. Tollenaar, A.T. Marseille, K.J. de Graaf: Establishing facts by the administrative judge
Studygroup 12
Frans van Nispen: Budgetary Innovation: A New Role for the Court of Audit
Jan Hakvoort, Henk Klaassen: Accountability in the public sector. An efficient route towards more transparency?
Yuri Biondi: How to Make the Public Sector Accountable? A Conceptual Assessment of the New French Government Accounting Standards
Robin Braun: Sequencing of IPSAS Style Reforms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Pedro Jorge Camoes, Susana Margarida Jorge, Joào Baptista da Costa Carvalho, Maria Jose Fernandes: Does Accounting Compliance Improve Financial Performance? An Econometric Analysis of Portuguese Local Governmentto
Alan Jones, James Guthrie: Tracking the Financial Managment, Audit and Accountability Regimes of Modernised Skies
Mari Kobayashi, Kiyoshi Yamamoto: Japanese Local Governments' Challenges towards the Effective Performance Audit. Based on the Comparative Perspectives with the MPMP of Ontario, Canada
Mariannunziata Liguori: How the dimensions of Accounting Change Interact over Time: Rediscovering a processual Perspective
Mariannunziata Liguori, Mariafrancesca Sicilia, Ileana Steccolini: Politicians and Managers on Managerial Reform: What Role for Accounting Tools?
Patrizio Monfardini, Patrick von Maravic: A Tale of Trojan Horses and Stoic Decline: Municipal Auditing in Germany and Italy
Johann Seiwald, Veronika Meszarits: Budgetary Reform in Austria: Towards tighter Coupling within the Financial and Management System
PhD Seminar
Hector Arambula: Accountability for Performance in Public Sector Organizations: A Theoretical Review and a Research proposal
Young-Jin Ham: Understanding Performance Measurement in the Social Housing Sector in England: the Case of Housing Associations
Friederike Nebel: (Old) Public Administration and (New) Management Concepts; Analyzing a Complex Interrelation
Julien van Ostaaijen: Policy Discretion in Dutch Local Government: A Rotterdam Regime Change?
Tommaso Palermo: Management Innovations in the Italian Central Government; The Case of Performance-based Rewards
Vadym Pyrozhenko: Bridging Weak Organizationsl Forms of Civil Society and Public Organizations: How the Spiritually-driven Natural Childbirth Movement Improved Maternity Practices in Ukraine
Jingjit Rutaichanok: Analysis of Organisational Culture and Outcomes of Public Management Reform Based on the Competing Values Framwork: Implications for Future Innovation Strategies
Lukas Schmucki: Reforming Parliamentary Practices: Changes in Parliament in the Course of Administrative Reform
J.C.V. van der Veer: Manufacturing Local Governance: Understanding Dutch Municipalities' design of new Social Support Arrangements
Miguel Angelo Vilela Rodrigues: Mechanisms of Governance: Coordination Strategies in Portuguese Local Governments
Practitioners
J. Strikwerda: THE RELEVANCE OF THE CONCEPT OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR
Workshop 1
Anne Marie Berg: Organizing for innovation – autonomy versus control in public sector organizations
Yetano, Ana, Acerete, Basilio, Royo, Sonja: WHAT IS DRIVING THE INCREASING PRESENCE OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATION INITIATIVES?
P.H. Eshuis, A.P. Muizer: How innovative is the public sector? Lessons to be learned on the basis of a cross-sectoral evaluation
Monica Dimitriu: Bringing citizens closer to public administration. Innovative ideas leading to an increased public participation within the decision making process
Lars Fuglsang, John Storm Pedersen: How different is public and private innovation?
Luca Gnan, Alessandro Hinna, Debora Tomasi: BOARDS’ BEHAVIOUR RELEVANCE
ON PUBLIC SECTOR INNOVATION PROCESSES. Theoretical issues for a new research agenda
Raiser Kattel, Liisa Vask: What is public sector innovation?
Fabio Monteduro, Alessandro Hinna: STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE AND INNOVATIONS IN GOVERNANCE
Wilma van der Scheer, Mirko Noordegraaf, Pauline Meurs: Institutional innovations in health care. How health care executives perceive innovation and pursue legitimation
Georgios Vardaxoglou, Mira Slavova, David Allen, Tom Wilson: Perceptions and adoption of technological innovations in UK public safety organizations: the case of introducing location services in the police
Workshop 2
General Papers:
Rhys Andrews, Gene Brewer: Management Capacity and Public Service Performance:
Evidence from the U.S. States
Mark Considline, Jenny Lewis, Damon Alexander: Innovation inside government: The importance of networks
Martial Pasquier, Blaise Larpin: The Governance of Academic Networks in Switzerland
Haiko van der Voort, Joop Koppenjan, Ernst ten Heuvelhof, Martijn Leijten, Wijnand Veeneman: Institutionalising Learning Capacity in the Management of Innovative Projects: the case of the RandstadRail Project
Merlijn van Hulst, Lasse Gerrits: DREAM ON: The use of the `vision’ concept for governing networks
Voets Joris, Filip de Rynck: Exploring the innovative capacity of intergovernmental network
managers: the art of boundary scanning and boundary spanning
Robin Keast, Myrna Mandell: What Drives Networks: Institutional, Instrumental and Interpersonal Underpinnings
Rebecca Moody: Assessing the Role of Geographical Information Systems in Flood
Prediction. How Innovations in Flood Prediction Stream towards Agenda-Status.
Dorte Salskov-Iversen: Authority Innovation: The case of Local Government Environmental Management at the Eve of the UN Copenhagen Climate Summit 2009
Erkki Karo, Tarmo Kalvet: New Concepts around Innovation and Implications for Innovation Policy: The Case of Open Innovation in Estonia
Special Sesson - Innovation in Water Governance:
Art Dewulf, Rene Bouwen: Frames, scales and actors
A case study of collaborative water governance in Southern Ecuador
Jurian Edelenbos, Arwin van Buuren, Nienke van Schie, Erna Ovaa: Water management: knowledge production between experts and stakeholders. A comparison of three water cases in The Netherlands
Arwin van Buuren, Ytsen Deelstra, Jos van Nistelrooij, Angela Gomes, Wijnand Smulders: Innovation Capacity of the Water sector in Canada, Portugal and South Africa
S.V. Meijerink, S.G. Nooteboom, C.J.A.M. Termeer: Real Barriers to Climate Adaptation. A systems approach to learn about new modes of governance
Tamara Metze: Credibility contests between government-discourse and governance-discourse: a study of boundary work in network governance to improve the air- and water-quality in rural Wisconsin (USA)
Jacko van Ast, Jan Jaap Bouma: Value Based Governance in Water Management
Sonja van der Arend: Dreaming of water bodies: the politics of WFD governance innovations
Workshop 3
Erkki Karo, Tarmo Kalvet: New Concepts around Innovation and Implications for Innovation Policy: The Case of Open Innovation in Estonia
Rainer Kattel, Tarmo Kalvet and Tiina Randma‐Liiv: Small States and Innovation
Rainer Kattel, Margit Suurna: Europeanisation of Innovation Policy in Central and Eastern Europe
Veiko Lember, Tarmo Kalvet, Rainer Kattel: Urban competitiveness and public procurement for innovation
Valentina Ferraro, Maria Stefania Senese: Innovation Policy in the Rehabilitation of the Citadel of Damascus
Catrien Termeer, Remco Kranendonk: Governance of regional innovations towards sustainability
Nancy van der Bol: Innovating in spatial planning. Entrepreneurial and Conformist public managers in the Randstad |
