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 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...

Literature in the field of New Public Administration has focused mainly on individual countries especially the successes and failures of public sector reform efforts. This article introduces a more comparative perspective by looking at the different ways governments are managing public sector...

While a growing amount of literature has recently emerged describing network governance, less attention has been paid to evaluating the actual performance of networks. Our paper looks at the challenges facing network governance for natural resources (primarily logging and forestry) and energy...