Tom Christensen

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Tom Christensen is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oslo, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Renmin University of China, Tsinghua University

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The Whole‐of‐Government Approach to Public Sector Reform (2007) (843)
TRUST IN GOVERNMENT: The Relative Importance of Service Satisfaction, Political Factors, and Demography (2005) (543)
New public management : the transformation of ideas and practice (2001) (388)
Complexity and Hybrid Public Administration—Theoretical and Empirical Challenges (2011) (318)
Autonomy and regulation : coping with agencies in the modern state (2006) (290)
Organizing for Crisis Management: Building Governance Capacity and Legitimacy (2016) (251)
The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management (2010) (242)
Balancing Governance Capacity and Legitimacy: How the Norwegian Government Handled the COVID‐19 Crisis as a High Performer (2020) (216)
Citizens and Consumers (2005) (207)
University governance reforms: potential problems of more autonomy? (2011) (196)
Organization Theory and the Public Sector: Instrument, Culture and Myth (2020) (181)
Regulatory Agencies—The Challenges of Balancing Agency Autonomy and Political Control (2007) (171)
New Public Management: Puzzles of Democracy and the Influence of Citizens (2002) (170)
NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: The effects of contractualism and devolution on political control (2001) (169)
The Challenge of Coordination in Central Government Organizations: The Norwegian Case (2007) (157)
The formalization of the university: rules, roots, and routes (2013) (146)
New Public Management: Design, Resistance, or Transformation? A Study of How Modern Reforms Are Received in a Civil Service System (1999) (132)
COMPARING COORDINATION STRUCTURES FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN SIX COUNTRIES (2016) (120)
Transforming Administrative Policy (2002) (114)
Performance and Accountability—A Theoretical Discussion and an Empirical Assessment (2015) (112)
Radical Reform in New Zealand: Crisis, Windows of Opportunity, and Rational Actors (2001) (111)
Narratives of Norwegian governance: elaborating the strong state tradition (2003) (110)
Reform of the employment and welfare administrations — the challenges of co-coordinating diverse public organizations (2007) (110)
Instant availability of patient records, but diminished availability of patient information: A multi-method study of GP's use of electronic patient records (2008) (103)
Democracy and administrative policy: contrasting elements of New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM (2011) (103)
Performance Management and Public Sector Reform: The Norwegian Hospital Reform (2006) (102)
Administrative reform in China's central government — how much `learning from the West'? (2008) (99)
Post-NPM and changing public governance (2012) (98)
NPM and beyond — structure, culture and demography (2008) (97)
Administrative reform policy: the case of Norway (1998) (92)
Autonomy and Regulation (2006) (89)
Administrative Reform Policy: The Challenges of Turning Symbols into Practice (2003) (75)
The Whole-of-Government Approach – Regulation, Performance, and Public-Sector Reform (2006) (74)
The Development of Public Institutions (2008) (70)
Beyond New Public Management: Agencification and Regulatory Reform in Norway (2008) (69)
Joined-Up Government for Welfare Administration Reform in Norway (2014) (66)
Coping with Complex Leadership Roles: The Problematic Redefinition of Government-owned Enterprises (2003) (63)
HOW TO ASSESS ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM? INVESTIGATING THE ADOPTION AND PRELIMINARY IMPACTS OF THE NORWEGIAN WELFARE ADMINISTRATION REFORM (2010) (59)
Bureaucratic Roles: Political Loyalty and Professional Autonomy* (1991) (58)
The coronavirus crisis—crisis communication, meaning-making, and reputation management (2020) (52)
Trust in Government – the Significance of Attitudes Towards Democracy, the Public Sector and Public Sector Reforms (2003) (52)
Structure, Culture, and Governance: A Comparison of Norway and the United States (1999) (52)
The Many Faces of Accountability: Comparing Reforms in Welfare, Hospitals and Migration (2014) (51)
Lejre Beyond Legend—The Archaeological Evidence (1991) (50)
Governmental autonomisation and control: the Norwegian way (2004) (50)
Beyond NPM? Some Development Features (2010) (48)
mtDNA analysis of human remains from an early Danish Christian cemetery. (2005) (48)
Ex Ante Project Evaluation and the Complexity of Early Decision-Making (2017) (48)
The challenges of coordination in national security management – the case of the terrorist attack in Norway (2015) (47)
Competing principles of agency organization – the reorganization of a reform (2012) (46)
Translating Theoretical Ideas into Modern State Reform (2003) (46)
Government Trust, Social Trust, and Citizens’ Risk Concerns: Evidence from Crisis Management in China (2018) (46)
Living in the Past? Change and Continuity in the Norwegian Central Civil Service (2009) (46)
A Case Study of China’s Administrative Reform (2010) (45)
Reputation Management in Complex Environments—A Comparative Study of University Organizations (2017) (44)
After a Terrorist Attack: Challenges for Political and Administrative Leadership in Norway (2013) (42)
Global Ideas and Modern Public Sector Reforms (2012) (41)
Increasing Parliamentary Control of the Executive? New Instruments and Emerging Effects (2002) (40)
How to Carry Out Joined-Up Government Reforms: Lessons from the 2001–2006 Norwegian Welfare Reform (2009) (40)
Administrative Reform: Changing Leadership Roles? (2001) (39)
The Norwegian state transformed? (2005) (39)
The Challenges of Modernizing Tax Administration (2007) (39)
Why Reforms So Often Disappoint (2014) (39)
Increased Complexity in Public Organizations — the Challenges of Combining NPM and Post-NPM (2010) (37)
The Fragmented State – the Challenges of Combining Efficiency, Institutional Norms and Democracy (2004) (35)
The Norwegian front‐end governance regime of major public projects (2011) (34)
Imitating the West? Evidence on Administrative Reform from the Upper Echelons of Chinese Provincial Government (2012) (34)
Organization Theory and the Public Sector (2020) (33)
The Routledge Handbook to Accountability and Welfare State Reforms in Europe (2016) (29)
Global Pressures and National Cultures (2014) (29)
Norwegians GPs' use of electronic patient record systems (2009) (28)
Post-New Public Management: a new administrative paradigm for China? (2018) (28)
Academic Autonomy and Freedom under Pressure: Severely Limited, or Alive and Kicking? (2018) (27)
The Politics of SARS – Rational Responses or Ambiguity, Symbols and Chaos? (2004) (27)
Autonomization and Policy Capacity: The Dilemmas and Challenges Facing Political Executives (2005) (27)
Complex Patterns of Interaction and Influence Among Political and Administrative Leaders (2002) (27)
Administrative coordination capacity; does the wickedness of policy areas matter? (2019) (27)
Reputation Management in Societal Security: A Comparative Study (2018) (22)
Regulatory Reforms and Agencification (2005) (22)
Expectations for the next generation of electronic patient records in primary care: a triangulated study. (2008) (21)
Coordination Structures and Mechanisms for Crisis Management in China: Challenges of Complexity (2018) (21)
Crisis Management (2011) (21)
Democracy and administrative policy: Contrasting elements of NPM and post-NPM (2009) (21)
Ethics and Administrative Reforms (2011) (20)
Japanese University Reform — Hybridity in Governance and Management (2011) (20)
NPM and beyond - leadership, culture, and demography (2007) (20)
Reforming the Norwegian police between structure and culture: Community police or emergency police (2018) (19)
Reputation Management in Public Agencies: The Relevance of Time, Sector, Audience, and Tasks (2019) (19)
Societal Security and Crisis Management: Governance Capacity and Legitimacy (2018) (18)
An Organization Approach to Public Administration (2018) (18)
The Open Public Value Account and Comprehensive Social Development: An Assessment of China and the United States (2017) (18)
Reputation Management, Social Embeddedness, and Rationalization of Universities (2018) (16)
Trust in Local Government: Service Satisfaction, Culture, and Demography (2020) (16)
Chapter 2 Post-NPM Reforms: Whole of Government Approaches as a New Trend (2011) (16)
Performance Management and Accountability: The Welfare Administration Reform in Norway and Germany (2015) (16)
Introduction – Theoretical Approach and Research Questions (2017) (16)
Reforms of Welfare Administration and Policy—A Comparison of Complexity and Hybridization: An Introduction (2009) (16)
Organising immigration policy: the unstable balance between political control and agency autonomy (2009) (15)
Organized Grour>Government Relations in Norway: On the Structured Selection of Participants, Problems, Solutions, and Choice Opportunities * (1979) (15)
Contexts and administrative reforms: a transformative approach (2013) (15)
Civil Servants' Perceptions Regarding ICT Use in Norwegian Central Government (2010) (15)
A Transformative Perspective (2016) (15)
Administrative Reforms in Western Democracies (2012) (15)
Accountability of immigration administration: comparing crises in Norway, Denmark and Germany (2013) (15)
Coordination Quality in Central Government – the Case of Norway (2020) (14)
Comparing SARS and COVID-19: Challenges of Governance Capacity and Legitimacy (2021) (14)
Governance And Administrative Reforms (2012) (13)
New Public Management - are politicians losing control? (1999) (13)
Competing for father's love? The politics of central government agency termination in China (2019) (13)
Competing for father's love? The politics of central government agency termination in China (2019) (13)
Strengthening the strategic capacity of public universities: The role of internal governance models (2019) (13)
Living in the past? - tenure, roles and attitudes in the central civil service (2008) (12)
Welfare Administration Reform Between Coordination and Specialization (2013) (12)
Public Management Reform in Norway: Reluctance and Tensions (2009) (12)
Ambiguities of Accountability and Attention – Analyzing the Failure of a Preventive Security Project (2016) (11)
Crisis Management – The Case of Internal Security in Norway (2007) (11)
Mapping the evolution of the central government apparatus in China (2020) (11)
The Development and Current Features of the Norwegian Civil Service System (2011) (10)
Housing reform in China: rational interests gone wrong or organizational design failure? (2010) (10)
Accountability and Performance Management: The Norwegian Hospital, Welfare, and Immigration Administration (2015) (10)
Cross-Border Coordination Activities in Central Government Administration—Combining Organizational Conditions and Individual Features (2012) (10)
A System Under Stress: The Icelandic Volcano Ash Crisis (2013) (10)
Modern Regulatory Agencies - Professional and Judicial Objectivity or Increased Complexity in Decision-Making? (2006) (10)
How to Succeed in Reorganizing: The Case of the Norwegian Health Administration* (1987) (10)
Effects and implications (2007) (9)
Public Administration Research in Norway: Organization theory, institutionalism and empirical studies in a democratic context (2004) (9)
Health Care Reform in China: An Analysis of Development Trends and Lack of Implementation (2014) (9)
Organization theory for the public sector (2007) (9)
Resources allocation in Chinese universities: hierarchy, academic excellence, or both? (2017) (9)
Joined-up-government: Reform challenges, experiences and accountability relations (2012) (8)
Policy attention and the adoption of public sector innovation (2022) (8)
Beyond NPM to Post-NPM? A Study of China’s Government Reforms Over the Past 40 Years (2019) (8)
Reputation Management in Times of Crisis: How the Police Handled the Norwegian Terrorist Attack in 2011 (2014) (7)
Accountability and performance in welfare administration reform. Comparing Norway and Germany (2014) (7)
Government technological capacity and public–private partnerships regarding digital service delivery: evidence from Chinese cities (2021) (7)
Bringing the GP to the forefront of EHR development (2009) (7)
Administrative Reforms and Competence in Central Government Organizations (2008) (7)
Modern Regulatory Policy – Ideals and Practice (2007) (7)
A silver figurine from Lejre (2013) (7)
Challenges and effects of administrative reform - Reorganizing the Norwegian welfare administration (2008) (7)
Local Government Reform: Compromise Through Cross-Cutting Cleavages (2019) (7)
Implementation of Merger: Lessons from the Norwegian Welfare Bureaucracy (2008) (7)
Corruption and Accountability in China's Rural Poverty Governance: Main Features from Village and Township Cadres (2020) (7)
Conflicting Accountabilities in the 2012 Health Care Reforms in England (2015) (7)
Transcending New Public Management - the Increasing Complexity of Balancing Control and Autonomy (2008) (7)
Local Public Services Provision in China – An Institutional Analysis (2015) (7)
Same Bed, Different Dreams? Structural Factors and Leadership Characteristics of Central Government Agency Reform in China (2019) (6)
Welfare reform and «wicked issues» – from coupling to de-coupling? (2012) (6)
Development of functional requirements for electronic health communication: preliminary results from the ELIN project. (2005) (6)
HOW TO COPE WITH A TERRORIST ATTACK? - A CHALLENGE FOR THE POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP (2012) (6)
The Social Policy Response to COVID-19 – The Failure to Help Vulnerable Children and Elderly People (2021) (5)
Performance and Accountability—A Theoretical Discussion and an Empirical Assessment (2014) (5)
Scientization Under Pressure—The Problematic Role of Expert Bodies During the Handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (5)
Changing accountability relations - the forgotten side of public sector reforms (2011) (5)
The long‐term development of crisis management in China—Continuity, institutional punctuations and reforms (2021) (5)
Reputation management by Chinese universities: Primary profile and comparative features (2020) (5)
Reputation management by Chinese universities: Primary profile and comparative features (2020) (5)
A Special Breed?– a Longitudinal and Cross‐Sectional Study of Norwegian Budgeting and Financial Civil Servants (2012) (5)
Accountability Relations in Unsettled Situations (2016) (5)
University governance reforms: putting the Japanese Experience into perspective (2010) (5)
Reputation Profiles of Chinese Universities—Converging with Global Trends or National Characteristics? (2018) (5)
Academic Autonomy and Freedom under Pressure: Severely Limited, or Alive and Kicking? (2017) (5)
Changing accountability relations in a welfare state – an assessment based on a study of welfare reforms (2011) (4)
Crisis coordination in centralized regimes: Explaining China's strategy for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic (2022) (4)
Myths, instrumental reality, or cultural change? Modern service-oriented government reforms in China (2020) (4)
The Demise of an Agency Director – A Puzzling Saga of Political Control and Professional Autonomy (2020) (4)
Crisis Management Organization: Building Governance Capacity and Legitimacy (2014) (4)
The hybridization of policy learning in multilevel regimes: a case study of the long-term care insurance in China (2022) (4)
The Governance of Wicked Issues: A European Cross-Country Analysis of Coordination for Societal Security (2014) (4)
The New Regulatory Orthodoxy: A Critical Assessment (2011) (4)
Complex Interactions and Influence Among Political and Administrative Leaders (2003) (4)
Changing accountability relations in welfare state reforms: Lessons from Norway (2012) (3)
Post New Public Management Reforms-Exploring the “Whole-of-Governmenty” Approach to Public Reform (2007) (3)
Decision-Making in the Political Environment (2012) (3)
The Co-evolution of Reputation Management, Governance Capacity, Legitimacy and Accountability in Crisis Management (2018) (3)
ICT Use in Central Government: Scope, Predictors and Effects on Coordination Quality (2020) (3)
How to Balance Individual Rights and Societal Security? The View of Civil Servants (2019) (3)
Accountability, Transparency and Societal Security (2016) (3)
Organizing Immigration – a Comparison of New Zealand and Norway (2017) (3)
Social Science Disciplines in Complex Development Contexts—The Professional Dimension of Reputation Management (2018) (3)
The dynamics of governance capacity and legitimacy: the case of a digital tracing technology during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022) (2)
In search of the Holy Grail-accountability and performance in welfare administration reform (2014) (2)
Does public money drive out private? Evidence from government regulations of industrial overcapacity governance in urban China (2021) (2)
Post New Public Management Reforms Empirical Tendencies and Scholarly Challenges (2007) (2)
The Regulatory Orthodoxy in Practice (2007) (2)
Ambiguous hybridity? Main features of China's service-oriented government reform (2020) (2)
The community philanthropic foundation: A new form of independent public service provider for China? (2018) (2)
The Whole-of-Government Approach to Modernisation (2007) (2)
Performance management and accountability of welfare state agencies. The cases of Norwegian hospital, welfare and immigration administration (2014) (2)
The formalization of the university: rules, roots, and routes (2012) (2)
Accountability in Multilevel Health Care Services: The Case of Norway (2016) (2)
Blind Spots: Organizational and Institutional Biases in Intra- and Inter-organizational Contexts (2018) (2)
Margrethehåb: A Settlement Site of the Early Middle Ages at Roskilde, Zealand (1988) (2)
Working across boundaries: Collegial administration in central government – scope, variation and effects (2010) (2)
All roads lead to Rome? The contingency factors of institutional integration: a comparative case study on environmental institutional reform in Guangdong, China (2020) (2)
Special Issue on The Scientization of Public Decision-Making Processes – the Relevance for the Handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (2)
Organizational Innovations and Multiple Forms of Accountability in the Post-New Public Management Era (2016) (2)
Coordination and hybrid governance – theoretical and empirical challenges (2009) (2)
Crisis decision-making inside the core executive: Rationality, bureaucratic politics, standard procedures and the COVID-19 lockdown (2022) (1)
Reputation Management and Administrative Reorganization: How Different Media Reputation Dimensions Matter for Agency Termination (2022) (1)
Governance Coordination Capacity and Quality. Does Wicked Policy Areas Matter (2018) (1)
Leading groups: public sector reform with Chinese characteristics in a post-NPM era (2022) (1)
Reputation Management in Nordic Universities—Profiles and Development Over Time (2018) (1)
Hybridity in the Public Sector—Comparing Development Features in Municipalities in Japan and Norway (2018) (1)
A Review of: "Transcending New Public Management: The Transformation of Public Sector Reforms edited by (2008) (1)
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments (2022) (1)
Challenges of Implementing a Performance and Reward System in Higher Education Institutions in Pakistan: Perceptions of Top Leaders in Contending Regulatory Bodies (2020) (1)
Does improved medication adherence reduce inpatient hospital expenditures (2017) (1)
Accountability of immigration administration (2017) (1)
Reform and change (2007) (1)
The people and structure solution? Collegial administration in Norway (2013) (1)
A Review of: “Public Management Reform and Modernization: Trajectories of Administrative Change in Italy, France, Greece, Portugal and Spain by Edoardo Ongaro” (2011) (1)
Ethics, NPM and post-NPM. A study of patterns and tensions in the central civil service (2009) (1)
Welfare Reform And ‘wicked Issues’ - From Coupling To De-coupling? (Working Paper 5) (2012) (1)
Organization Theory and Public Administration (2019) (1)
Equal access to public services? Perceptions on administrative reforms from a provincial elite in Chinese Government (2012) (1)
Chinese University Administrations: Chinese Characteristics or Global Influence? (2020) (1)
Reputation Management in Complex Environments—A Comparative Study of University Organizations (2016) (1)
Leadership and steering (2007) (0)
A new opera house: combining entrepreneurship, garbage can features and windows of opportunity (2015) (0)
Performance Management (2021) (0)
The Logic of Appropriateness – A Central Concept in Institutional Theory (2021) (0)
Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications from Governance Capacity and Legitimacy (2023) (0)
Coordination Quality in Central Government – the Case of Norway (2019) (0)
Putting the Japanese Experience into Perspective (2011) (0)
A cultural perspective (2007) (0)
Hybrid welfare administrative systems and changing accountability relations – comparing the development of the Danish and Norwegian systems (2016) (0)
Leadership and New Public Management NPM and beyond – leadership , culture , and demography (2007) (0)
A Norwegian tradition of studying public administration Bounded rationality and institutional features combined (2015) (0)
Ex Ante Project Evaluation and the Complexity of Early Decision-Making (2015) (0)
Political Control or Professional Autonomy? A Case of Agency Director Resignation (2020) (0)
Understanding and design (2007) (0)
Coordination Quality: Perceptions and Drivers Among Civil Servants (2019) (0)
Author Correction: Population genomics of the Viking world (2021) (0)
The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture? (2023) (0)
Christopher Pollitt - an excellent scholar and dear colleague (2018) (0)
Collective action and co‐production of public services as alternative politics: The case of public transportation in Israel (2023) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2011) (0)
A Tectonic Model for the Northern Llanos and Southern Barinas-Apure-Basins (1985) (0)
A Case of Agency Director Resignation (2020) (0)
Effects, learning and implications (2020) (0)
Goals and values (2007) (0)
ICT tools in central government (2008) (0)
An instrumental perspective (2007) (0)
Introduction – Theoretical Approach and Research Questions a Transformative Approach New Public Management and beyond – Divergence or Convergence, or Both? (0)
`learning from the West'? Administrative reform in China's central governmenthow much (2008) (0)
ICT Tools in Central Government: Scope, Predictors and Effect on Coordination Quality (2020) (0)
Bounded Rationality, Satisficing, Artificial Intelligence, and Decision‐Making in Public Organizations: The Contributions of Herbert Simon (2022) (0)
Challenges of Implementing a Performance and Reward System in Higher Education Institutions in Pakistan: Perceptions of Top Leaders in Contending Regulatory Bodies (2020) (0)
Joined-Up Government for Welfare Administration Reform in Norway (2013) (0)
A myth perspective (2007) (0)
Crisis Management Capacity in Central Government: The Perceptions of Civil Servants in Norway (2018) (0)
Index to Participants (1990) (0)
Coordination Structures and Mechanisms for Crisis Management in China: Challenges of Complexity (2018) (0)
Goals, values and motivation (2020) (0)
Rewarding academics: Experiences of the Tenure Track System in Pakistan (2022) (0)
Articles for a Special Issue of Public Organization Review (POR) on the Scientization of Public Decision-Making Processes – the Relevance for the Handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021) (0)
Author Correction: Special Issue on The Scientization of Public Decision-Making Processes – the Relevance for the Handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (0)
Cross-Border Coordination Activities in Central Government Administration—Combining Organizational Conditions and Individual Features (2012) (0)
Guest editorial: Rethinking the state of the administrative state: Is the state back in? (2022) (0)
Author Correction: Special Issue on The Scientization of Public Decision-Making Processes – the Relevance for the Handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (0)
International Journal of Managing Projects in Business Emerald Article: The Norwegian front-end governance regime of major public projects: A theoretically based analysis and evaluation (2012) (0)

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