New leaders' managerial background and the performance of public organizations: the theory of publicness fit

Petrovsky, Nicolai, James, Oliver and Boyne, George A. 2015. New leaders' managerial background and the performance of public organizations: the theory of publicness fit. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 25 (1) , pp. 217-236. 10.1093/jopart/muu008

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Abstract

We develop a theory of the effect of top management succession on the performance of public organizations. The theory is rooted in the fundamental characteristics of an organization’s publicness: ownership, funding, and regulation. We construct the concept of publicness fit—the match between the organization and the leader’s previous managerial experience. We argue that the effect of publicness fit on performance depends on the balance of adaptation benefits and disruption costs, which in turn depends on the prior performance of an organization. We propose a research agenda to empirically evaluate propositions developed from the theory of publicness fit.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	1053-1858
Last Modified:	12 Jan 2021 14:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/90184

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