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 article discusses the challenges of better connecting public administration (PA) scholarship to practice and recommends solutions to address those challenges in three areas – engaged scholarship, engaged teaching, and engaged faculty. To strengthen the connection between research and...

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...

Administrative reform is a political, not managerial, issue. This study argues that administrative reform is highly influenced by realities of bureaucratic politics. Reforms usually mean the struggle over power between involved actors. There are evidences of patterns of power struggle among and...

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;...