This article investigates public sector talent management schemes in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. It offers a framework to make such comparisons, which allow for better understanding of the values and contextual factors related to talent management. The three countries are found to have...

The multifaceted nature of anti-corruption work demands a sophisticated account of ways in which organizations can collaborate. This article seeks to develop a framework for studying collaborations of anti-corruption work. Based on interviews and document analyses, it investigates Japan, South...

This conceptual paper aims to contribute to the discussion of policy capacity in three ways. First, the emergence and growth of ‘governance’ as the mode to achieve public outcomes in this 21st era, requires us to include skills related to collaborative and network management capabilities in...

This paper suggests to study service delivery networks by drawing on the theories of collaboration, coproduction, and networks combined. We introduce four dimensions of coproduction under ‘coproduction-oriented collaborations’. This framework allows us to ‘zoom in and zoom out’ when we...

This paper explores (dis-)economies of scale in property value assessment via cooperative agreements among small tax assessing jurisdictions without consolidation. New York State incentivizes small neighboring towns to unify their assessment function while maintaining respective tax authority;...

This paper examines the fiscal motives behind municipal governments' decisions to allocate commercial and residential land when two categories of land use are subject to different fiscal revenue alternatives: business-related tax and/or land rent. We use urban parcel-level land transfers during...

This special issue includes 5 articles on value capture strategies used in transportation finance.

The question why a government chooses a specific service delivery tool to provide public service to its citizenry is a central intellectual inquiry in public administration. This paper develops a framework to explain the production and sector choices of public services by political-economic...

This article examines joint development as a value capture strategy for funding public transportation. We start from the concept of joint development, its rationale, a brief history, and the extent of its use. Joint development projects in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tokyo, and Thailand are profiled, as...