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The management of change in public organizations: A literature review

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KUIPERS, BEN S., HIGGS, MALCOLM, KICKERT, WALTER, TUMMERS, LARS, GRANDIA, JOLIEN, VAN DER VOET, JORIS·2014·Public Administration

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This article presents a review of the recent literature on change management in public organizations and sets out to explore the extent to which this literature has responded to earlier critiques regarding the lack of (public) contextual factors. The review includes 133 articles published on this topic in the period from 2000 to 2010. The articles are analysed based on the themes of the context, content, process, outcome, and leadership of change. We identified whether the articles referred to different orders of change, as well as their methods and theory employed. Our findings concentrate on the lack of detail on change processes and outcomes and the gap between the common theories used to study change. We propose an agenda for the study of change management in public organizations that focuses on its complex nature by building theoretical bridges and performing more in‐depth empirical and comparative studies on change processes.

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Authors
KUIPERS, B. S., HIGGS, M., KICKERT, W., TUMMERS, L., GRANDIA, J., & VAN DER VOET, J.
Affiliations
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
  • University of Southampton (GB)
  • Department of Public Administration Erasmus University Rotterdam The Netherlands
Venue
Public Administration
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2013-08-24
Volume
92
Issue
1
Pages
1-20
ISSN
  • 0033-3298 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-9299
OpenAlex
W3124237733
Cited by
508
References
114
Citations by year
2026: 29 · 2025: 40 · 2024: 41 · 2023: 55 · 2022: 48 · 2021: 51 · 2020: 53 · 2019: 36 · 2018: 47 · 2017: 41 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 29 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 3
FWCI
45.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Public Administration (publishedVersion)
  • EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • EUR Research Repository (Erasmus University Rotterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • Repository@Hull (Worktribe) (University of Hull) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Repository@Hull (Worktribe) (University of Hull) (submittedVersion)
  • Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Organizational Change and Leadership
  • Social Sciences › Public Administration › Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Public Administration and Political Analysis
Keywords
change management, public sector organizations, organizational change, change processes, change outcomes, change leadership, public sector management, theory of change

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