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Partisanship and the Gender Pay Gap in Local Government Open

José M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews · 2025

Partisanship may play a part in shaping gender equality within public organizations, especially in local governments, which are often subject to direct political control. Using a Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design, we examine the influen…

Knowledge Commercialization and University Audit Fees: A UK‐Based Study Open

Shuo Sun, Dennis De Widt, Rhys Andrews · 2025

In the face of stiffening sector competition and reduced government funding, universities in many countries increasingly seek to diversify their revenue. One prominent way employed by universities to achieve revenue diversification is the …

The power of embodied and arts-based learning in the shared humanity co-curriculum experiential learning opportunity at Stellenbosch University Open

Elmarie Costandius, Shelley Pryde, Rhys Andrews · 2025

The transformation of higher education in South Africa has tended to focus on issues such as access and representation, leaving curricula insufficiently addressed. This is surprising, considering that much previous scholarship, including t…

Social Equity in Municipally Owned Corporations: Do Women in the Boardroom Make a Difference to the Gender Pay Gap? Open

Rhys Andrews · 2024

Representative bureaucracy theory posits that the presence of less‐advantaged social groups in public leadership positions is an important driver of social equity among the recipients of public services and the public servants who provide …

Board gender diversity in municipally owned corporations: A resource dependence perspective Open

Rhys Andrews · 2024

The increasing use of municipally owned corporations (MOCs) to provide vital public services has drawn attention to the representation of women on MOC boards of directors. Resource dependency theory suggests that board composition is likel…

Drivers of reverse corporatization in English local government: A longitudinal analysis Open

Rhys Andrews · 2023

Local governments increasingly create and use corporate forms of organization to provide public services. While there is growing evidence on the factors influencing such corporatization, less is known about what leads some local government…

Hybridity, institutional logics and value creation mechanisms in the corporatisation of social care Open

Laurence Ferry, Piotr Węgorowski, Rhys Andrews · 2023

Hybridisation of public services has increased under neoliberalism and New Public Management policies, over the past four decades since the 1980s. Hybrid arrangements for service provision blend public, private and nonprofit approaches to …

Can City Deals Improve Economic Performance? Evidence from England Open

José M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews · 2023

City deals – place-based agreements between central and local state actors – are an increasingly common intervention for supporting economic performance in urban areas. This paper presents empirical evidence on the effectiveness of city de…

Organizational size and public service performance: a meta-analysis and an agenda for future research Open

Richard M. Walker, Rhys Andrews, Bert George, Xuan Tu · 2023

The question whether small or large organisations are associated with the best public service performance has long been a subject of debate in public administration research, and has had profound ramifications for practice. This article se…

Municipally Owned Corporations in England and Wales: A Tale of Two Countries Open

Rhys Andrews, Laurence Ferry · 2023

In the wake of the global financial crisis, local governments in the UK have been under increasing pressure to develop cost-effective and innovative approaches to public service provision. The use of municipally-owned corporations (MOCs) h…

Does vertical integration of health and social care organizations work? Evidence from Scotland Open

José M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews · 2022

Vertical integration of health and social care organizations is widely regarded as an effective way to deliver improved outcomes for recipients of the services provided by those organizations. We test this hypothesis by investigating the i…

Can public‐private innovation partnerships improve public services? Evidence from a synthetic control approach Open

José M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews · 2022

Public‐Private Innovation (PPI) Partnerships can generate innovative approaches to improving public services. However, incomplete contract theories point to difficulties in making public‐private collaborations work effectively and efficien…

Corporatization of public services Open

Rhys Andrews, Judith Clifton, Laurence Ferry · 2022

The corporatization of public services by moving services previously provided in‐house into various types of arms‐length corporate forms of organization is becoming an important trend at multiple levels of government. Although the use of s…

Political control and audit fees: an empirical analysis of local state-owned enterprises in England Open

Rhys Andrews, Laurence Ferry · 2021

This paper investigates relationship between political control and audit fees for local state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in England – hybrid public service organizations not subject to public sector audit. Panel regression techniques analyse…

Guest editors’ introduction: the impact of ageing and demographic change on local government Open

Rhys Andrews, Brian Dollery · 2021

(2021). Guest editors' introduction: the impact of ageing and demographic change on local government. Local Government Studies: Vol. 47, Special issue on The Impact of Ageing and Demographic Decline on Local Government, pp. 355-363.

The Motivations for the Adoption of Management Innovation by Local Governments and its Performance Effects Open

Rhys Andrews, Benedetta Bellò, James Downe, Steve Martin, Richard M. Walker · 2021

This article analyses the economic, political, and institutional antecedents and performance effects of the adoption of shared Senior Management Teams (SMTs)—a management innovation (MI) that occurs when a team of senior managers oversees …

Which constituencies receive the most asylum seekers? privatisation and the politics of refugee dispersal in England Open

José M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews · 2020

José M. Alonso and Rhys Andrews analyse the dispersal of asylum seekers across English local authorities before and after the Conservative-led privatisation of the system. They find that asylum dispersals to Labour Party ‘core’ constituenc…

Privatization, power and place: the distributive politics of asylum dispersal in England Open

José M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews · 2020

The paper argues that governing parties can use privatization as a political discipline mechanism to reward core constituents and swing voters by diverting unwanted social and economic costs to other places. This is tested by analysing the…

The Politics of Contracting Out: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design Open

José M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews · 2019

Theoretical perspectives on the ideological influences on government contracting predict that local governments controlled by right-wing political parties will contract out a higher proportion of services than those controlled by left-wing…

Factors influencing citizens’ co-production of environmental outcomes: a multi-level analysis Open

José M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews, Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz‐Fuentes · 2019

Drawing on the literature on public service co-production, we examine the individual-level and local government-level factors associated with pro-environmental behaviours. Statistical analysis suggests that individuals that have high level…

Corporatization in the Public Sector: Explaining the Growth of Local Government Companies Open

Rhys Andrews, Laurence Ferry, Chris Skelcher, Piotr Węgorowski · 2019

The creation of companies by local governments to provide public services—referred to as “corporatization”—is an example of systemic public entrepreneurship that is popular across the world. To build knowledge of the antecedents of public …

Do neighbourhood renewal programs reduce crime rates? Evidence from England Open

José M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews, Vanesa Jordá · 2019

New development: Corporatization of local authorities in England in the wake of austerity 2010–2016 Open

Laurence Ferry, Rhys Andrews, Chris Skelcher, Piotr Węgorowski · 2018

A key institutional driver of current reforms within English local government is ‘alternative service delivery’. Our review of councils’ annual accounts between 2010/11 and 2016/17 suggests ‘corporatization’—the creation of local authority…

Fiscal decentralisation and local government efficiency: Does relative deprivation matter? Open

José M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews · 2018

Fiscal decentralisation arguably improves government efficiency because it enhances responsiveness to local policy issues and incentivises fiscal discipline. However, critics suggest that central control over local spending is necessary to…

How local political preferences influence public housing reform Open

José M. Alonso, Rhys Andrews · 2018

José M. Alonso and Rhys Andrews explore the extent to which housing stock transfer in local authorities across England has been shaped by local political ideology. They explain that ideology plays an important role in making housing reform…

Does austerity drive public service innovation? Evidence from shared senior management teams in local government Open

Benedetta Bellò, James Downe, Rhys Andrews, Steve Martin · 2018

Shared senior management teams are a recent and radical response to financial austerity. They aim to improve the efficiency of public services without the disruption, controversy and transaction costs associated with full-blown organizatio…

WHEN BUREAUCRACY MATTERS FOR ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: EXPLORING THE BENEFITS OF ADMINISTRATIVE INTENSITY IN BIG AND COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS Open

Rhys Andrews, George A. Boyne, Ahmed Mostafa · 2017

Administrative intensity is arguably a major determinant of public service performance. Although a large administrative function might constitute a bureaucratic burden, it could also enable organizations to better coordinate key activities…

Strategy Implementation Style and Public Service Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity Open

Rhys Andrews, Malcolm J. Beynon, Elif GENÇ TETİK · 2017

Strategic decision-making theories suggest that organizations that combine rational and incremental strategy implementation styles are likely to perform better than those that emphasize a single style. To assess whether these arguments app…

Introduction: Public Administration Reforms in Europe Open

Rhys Andrews, Gerhard Hammerschmid, Steven Van de Walle · 2016

Despite the salience of public administration reforms in Europe, there is surprisingly little systematic research identifying how and whether public sector reforms have been implemented, and with what outcomes. This introductory chapter in…

Managerial Networking and Stakeholder Support in Public Service Organizations Open

Rhys Andrews, Malcolm J. Beynon · 2016

Resource dependence theory suggests that to function successfully, organizations must obtain certain resources controlled by actors in their environment. To do this effectively, managers often develop networking relationships with key stak…

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