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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This essay addresses how the Norwegian government has handled the coronavirus pandemic. Compared with many other countries, Norway has performed well in handling the crisis. This must be understood in the context of competent ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Public sector reforms often take place in heterogeneous reform environments. Key political, administrative, and societal actors often advocate different definitions of problems and solutions. A major leadership challenge ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article focuses on perceived coordination quality among Norwegian civil servants. It explains how they assess the quality of coordination in their own field of work along different dimensions. To what degree have such ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This article provides a greater understanding of the service-oriented government (SOG) reforms that China carried out at the central level in 2008, 2013, and 2018. These reforms involved two common post-NPM structural ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
This paper addresses the use of ICT tools in central government, what can explain the variation in the use of such tools and the effects of them on perceived coordination quality. The data base is a survey to civil servants ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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This article is a study of the challenges of implementing a performance and rewards management system for academics (Tenure Track System - TTS) in Pakistan over the last decade. The main empirical focus is on ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
In this study, we analyse data from 176 Chinese universities to examine the use of reputation symbols on official websites. We find that Chinese universities prefer professional and performative symbols more than moral ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Corruption among village and township cadres is a serious problem in China’s governance of rural poverty. Based primarily on government websites, but also newspapers and interviews, the article analyzes categories, types ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
Abstract Norway’s handling of COVID-19 has been seen as a success. Vulnerable groups among young and elderly people, have however, not been part of this success. Their interests have been defocused in two ways. First, they ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
This study focuses on the long-term development of crisis management on the central level in China. Drawing on archival and interview data, it describes and analyzes how governance capacity and the formal structure of ...