How multiple organizational changes shape managerial support for innovative work behavior: Evidence from the Australian Public Service

J Wynen, J Boon, B Kleizen… - Review of Public …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Public organizations were once seen as the epitome of stability and implacability. More
recently, however, public organizations have been subject to fast-paced environmental …

Top managers in public organizations: A systematic literature review and future research directions

T Huang, AR Villadsen - Public Administration Review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite increasing attention, top management research has been heavily dominated by a
focus on private companies with much less emphasis on the top managers in public …

Do reputational threats influence the rigidity of US agencies? A dynamic panel data approach

J Boon, J Wynen, K Verhoest - Public Administration Review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
What happens to organizational rigidity when public organizations faced reputational threats
over time? Do they take external criticism as incentives to become less rigid and more …

Reform stress in the public sector? Linking change diversity to turnover intentions and presenteeism among civil servants using a matching approach

J Wynen, J Boon, S Verlinden - Public Performance & Management …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper aims to examine the effect of having experienced diverse changes over a short
period of time on the turnover intent and presenteeism behavior of public sector employees …

Nature or nurture? Agency life‐cycles as a function of institutional legacy, political environment, and organizational hardwiring

B Kleizen, M MacCarthaigh - Public Administration Review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A growing body of literature attempts to explain the life‐cycles of public sector organizations.
Of particular interest have been the form and incidence of their birth and termination, and …

Explaining the survival of public organizations: Applying density dependence theory to a population of US federal agencies

A Van Witteloostuijn, A Boin, C Kofman… - Public …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Why do some public organizations survive for many decades, whereas others are
terminated within a few years? This question of organizational survival has long intrigued …

Agencification in public administration

K Verhoest, S van Thiel, SF De Vadder - … research encyclopedia of …, 2021 - oxfordre.com
Agencification is the creation of semi-autonomous agencies: organizations charged with
public tasks like policy implementation, regulation, and public service delivery, operating at …

Spiraling Out of Control? The Impact of Chronic Stress on Civil Servant Perceptions of the Frequency of Workplace Changes

S Verlinden, J Wynen, D Van Doninck… - Review of Public …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
Global political and economic instability have highlighted the importance of resilient
governments capable of managing rapid change. However, continuous changes can …

Kee** a watchful eye in times of turmoil? How repeated structural reform leads to more attention to political signals

J Wynen, B Kleizen, K Verhoest, P Lægreid… - Public …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
An important rationale for the creation of semi‐autonomous agencies is to create some
distance between politics and administration. As such, agencies are expected to shield …

Termination, aggregation, or replacement? A competing risks approach to agency transitions

K Yesilkagit - Governance, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Agencies operate in highly volatile and uncertain environments. Changing political
coalitions and sudden crises may result in the reorganization of agencies. Under these …