Purpose Using the concept red tape, the purpose of this paper is to understand how job context, and especially hierarchical position, shapes the effects of transformational leadership on employee rule perception. Design/methodology/approach A survey of South Korean central government employees...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how the identities of the employees of Polish public administration are shaped in the process of public system reforms. Design/methodology/approach The findings are based on interviews with 40 employees of the Polish public administration. The authors...

Purpose – This paper aims to outline and comment on the changes to medical regulation in the UK that provide the background to a special issue of the Journal of Health Organization and Management on regulating doctors. Design/methodology/approach – This paper takes the form of a review....

Purpose – The major aim of this paper is to model, estimate and compare the technical efficiency and technology gap ratios of health care foodservice operations that operate in different Australian regions. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses a metafrontier model to analyse the...

In this article, the perceptions of reform agents regarding the degree of success of different aspects of the reform program during the period of the Iranian second five‐year plan (1995‐2000), by using a questionnaire, is analyzed. To supplement the findings of the questionnaire, the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine if business and public administration have distinct identities based on perception of curriculum areas. Design/methodology/approach – PROSCAL, and algorithm for multidimensional scaling was used. Findings – Business and public...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a framework to integrate emergent management theory into graduate coursework using media and film. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a qualitative and multi‐year case study. Findings – Media used to teach management theory...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that intersubjective experiences, governed by various dimensions of space, and induced actions are invaluable to invisible public administrators. Knowledge of these experiences holds the keys to good public administration practice and theory...

Purpose – Place‐based innovation has become central to meeting the complex demands on contemporary public administration. Among the difficulties in introducing new practices is the gap between political authorisation and administrative implementation. This paper aims to use the emergence of...

Knowledge management (KM) plays important roles in public administration (PA). Each role serves specific constituencies and purposes and is implemented differently. Jointly, they build society’s intellectual capital (IC) to improve the effectiveness of public and private decision making and...