The research on Chinese public management innovation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Wen
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Management Innovation ◽  
Chinese Public

Towards research for shaping Chinese policy and selected papers

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 616-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Check Teck Foo
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Chinese Policy ◽  
New Research ◽  
Chinese Public

Purpose This paper aims to make a call for the establishment of a new research journal: a likely title for which would be Chinese Public Management. The background to this is clearly set out here for posterity’s sake. The review of selected papers unveils an emerging trend amongst Chinese researchers for undertaking deeper, cluster-based analyses. See, for example, the insights presented in this issue concerning competitiveness in China’s automobile industry. Design/methodology/approach A diary-like account has been made of the series of recent events that sparked the author’s interest in creating a journal to be known as Chinese Public Management. Why is there currently this focus on empirical research for public policy? From the author’s five years’ work for a serial visiting professorship across China, he has found that there are now well-established, substantial databases dedicated to the subject. Even more importantly – as this paper illustrates – a growing community of scholars has become keen to embark upon an in-depth, quantitative research. Perhaps, for the new journal, we would need an editor concentrating specifically on databases. Furthermore, undertaking scholarly work that is still of practical relevance for guiding authorities in their formulations of public policy will add a whole new dimension to the available research. Findings There is scope for a new endeavor that documents management research within the public sector in China. This may be seen as a sister journal for “Chinese Management Studies” that focuses on the other, much larger Chinese sector, that is, governmental organizations. Originality/value This paper documents the emergence of the necessity for a new journal about management in China.

The Big Questions of Chinese Public Management Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 775-797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S. Mingus ◽  
Zhu Jing
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Public Administration Review ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
Chinese Public

In 1995, Robert Behn introduced American public administration to the need for common “big questions” to become a significant academic discipline, similar to the physical sciences. Chinese civil service laws were just being promulgated then, and so the discussion that ensued in Public Administration Review and elsewhere was not particularly salient for China. The largely U.S. literature did not take an international or comparative turn, yet it later became an active conversation in the Chinese literature, which is struggling to deal with its own identity crisis and the value of its research. Developing the big questions of Chinese public management research is extremely relevant in today’s environment because China is the world’s second largest economy, and their civil service has had significant time to mature. Chinese researchers have recently called for the development of domestically embedded (i.e., Sinicized) big questions. This article discusses the relevance of Behn’s questions on micromanagement, motivation, and measurement in the Chinese context and proposes alternate wordings of Behn’s questions to make them meaningful within the Chinese cultural and institutional context (while avoiding suggestions of replacing the basic Chinese political structure). Our hope is this discussion will spark a lively debate among the relevant Chinese research community.

scholarly journals Public Management Innovation in the Age of Big Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yichu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Management Innovation ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Public ◽  
Internet Age ◽  
The People ◽  
Big Data Technology

In the Internet age, computer technology and data analysis technology have been applied to the daily lives and work of the people. Big data technology has brought great influence to public management, providing efficient and convenient public services and improving the ability to cope with public opinion crises [1]. However, in the actual public management process, there are widespread problems such as single practice and poor data openness. Based on this, the article expounds the relevant content of big data, introduces the role of big data in public management, and studies the public management innovation in the age of big data.

scholarly journals The Quest for Results: Opportunities for Using Performance Measurement in Chinese Public Administration

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Stuart Kasdin
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Performance Management System ◽  
Performance Information ◽  
The Government ◽  
Agency Management ◽  
Chinese Public

This paper examines the current situation of public management in China and the potential that management reforms might bring improvement. The primary goal of the paper is to examine the opportunities that incentivized performance measures have to enhance that agency management. The paper analyzes the conditions for how performance information can be fashioned into a metric, which is contractible. It then looks at the types of incentives that can be tied to the metric. It also considers the flexibility of the government agency, the central budget office, and the oversight entities, and the roles that each plays in ensuring successful implementation of a performance management system.

Addressing coordination problems in information intensive processes for public management innovation

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adele Celino ◽  
Grazia Concilio ◽  
Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo ◽  
Barbara Scozzi
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
Management Innovation ◽  
Coordination Problems

Public Administration as a Dynamic Balance and Integrative Science Across Politics, Management, and Law: Rosenbloom’s Framework and Chinese Experiences

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-97
Author(s):  
Lihua Yang
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Dynamic Balance ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Science Management ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Subject ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Chinese Public ◽  
Integrative Science

An identity crisis has plagued public administration for over a century. The core of the crisis is how to address the relationship between public administration and the three major related disciplines—political science, management, and law; especially the first two—and whether public administration is an independent scientific subject. By studying the discipline identity problem of public administration using the three-perspective framework of politics, management, and law developed by Rosenbloom, this article argues that the developmental history of Chinese public administration is also a history of the relationship between public administration and the three major related disciplines. Furthermore, after comparing United States and Chinese public administration, the article suggests that we can define public administration as a dynamic balance and integrative science across the three major related disciplines by placing greater emphasis on administration, public management, and the laws and rules of administration and public management. This new definition suggests that seeking dynamic balance and synthesis is the nature of public administration, differentiates public administration from other disciplines, and stresses its status as an independent discipline. Thus, we do not need to be frightened of this feature of public administration or reframe it but must instead admit that this unique feature represents a specific advantage of public administration. Furthermore, this view provides a new way to dismiss the nightmare-like identity crisis faced by public administration.

scholarly journals Innovations in the Federal Government During the Post-new Public Management Era

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 885-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Cavalcante
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Management Innovation ◽  
Coordination Control ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
New Public ◽  
Innovation Type ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The main goal of this paper is to analyze whether innovations in the federal government follow public management trends, especially in the post-New Public Management (NPM) era. The article, based on exploratory descriptive research, investigates the most frequent trends in terms of principles and guidelines, their evolution in time and the relationship among the trends, and the thematic area of the innovations. To accomplish the goal, we initially conducted a comprehensive literature review to map the post-NPM trends. Next, we used content analysis to verify these initiatives based on the Federal Award of Public Management Innovation (FAPMI) from 2007 to 2015. The empirical findings confirm that more than 90% of these initiatives have at least one post-NPM principle/directive. The recurrent initiatives are collaboration/partnership, coordination/control, and participation/engagement with minor differences between the FAPMI runners-up and winners. A comparison of the trends according to innovation type, depicted by their thematic areas, revealed an overall heterogeneity among these trends. The most frequent type - new arrangement - is highly related to collaboration and partnership, while internal ends initiatives have less common post-NPM principles/directives, such as strengthening bureaucracy and leadership.

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