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2023

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Political Science

D-Index
42
Citations
25153
World Ranking
415
National Ranking
65

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management
  • Fellow of the British Academy of Management

Overview

Jean Hartley is affiliated with The Open University in the United Kingdom, contributing research primarily within the social sciences and business, management, and accounting fields. Their scholarly output covers topics that intersect public policy, management, and organizational studies.

Their recent work includes multiple publications focused on public administration and management. Notable papers include:

  • Innovation, exnovation and intelligent failure, 2021, Public Money & Management
  • Asymmetries of leadership: Agency, response and reason, 2020, Leadership
  • The contribution of political skill to the implementation of health services change: a systematic review and narrative synthesis, 2021, BMC Health Services Research
  • Leading for public value in multi-agency collaboration, 2021, Public Policy and Administration
  • Understanding the Political Skills and Behaviours for Leading the Implementation of Health Services Change: A Qualitative Interview Study, 2022, International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Their research spans several main fields of study, including social sciences with 28 publications and business, management, and accounting with 14. Subfields where their work is prominently featured include sociology and political science, public administration, organizational behavior and human resource management, political science and international relations, and management science and operations research.

Jean Hartley's research topics center on public policy and administration research, management and organizational studies, and sectors involving nonprofit and volunteering activities. Additional themes in their work examine policing practices and perceptions, nursing education, practice and leadership, evaluation and performance assessment, and health policy implementation science.

Frequent publication venues for Jean Hartley include:

  • Public Money & Management
  • Public Management Review
  • Leadership
  • BMC Health Services Research
  • Public Policy and Administration

Collaboration plays a significant role in their academic work, with frequent co-authors including Jenelle Clarke, Justin Waring, Simon Bishop, Mark Exworthy, and Naomi Fulop.

Recognition for their contributions is marked by being named a Fellow of the British Academy of Management.

Best Publications

  • Case study research

    Jean Hartley

  • Innovation in Governance and Public Services: Past and Present

    Jean Hartley

  • Job Insecurity: Coping with Jobs at Risk

    Jean Hartley;Dan Jacobson;Bert Klandermans;Tinka Van Vuuren

  • Collaborative innovation: A Viable Alternative to Market Competition and Organizational Entrepreneurship

    Jean Hartley;Eva Sørensen;Jacob Torfing

  • Innovations in governance

    Mark Moore;Jean Hartley

  • Organizational learning and knowledge in public service organizations: A systematic review of the literature

    Lyndsay Rashman;Erin Withers;Jean Hartley

  • Towards an empirical research agenda for public value theory

    Jean Hartley;John Alford;Eva Knies;Scott Douglas

  • The Modernization and Improvement of Government and Public Services: The Role of Leadership in the Modernization and Improvement of Public Services

    Jean Hartley;Maria Allison

  • Copy and Paste, or Graft and Transplant? Knowledge Sharing Through Inter-Organizational Networks

    Jean Hartley;John Benington

  • The impact of unemployment upon the self-esteem of managers

    Jean F. Hartley

  • Doing more with less? Employee reactions to psychological contract breach via target similarity or spillover during public sector organizational change

    Neil Conway;Tina Kiefer;Jean Hartley;Rob B. Briner

  • A model of political leadership

    Kevin Morrell;Jean Hartley

  • Reconsidering The Case For Organisational Commitment

    John Coopey;Jean Hartley

  • PUBLIC VALUE AND POLITICAL ASTUTENESS IN THE WORK OF PUBLIC MANAGERS: THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE

    Jean Hartley;John Alford;Owen Hughes;Sophie Yates

  • Leading and learning? Knowledge transfer in the Beacon Council Scheme

    Lyndsay Rashman;Jean Hartley

  • Ten propositions about public leadership

    Jean Hartley

  • Researching the Roles of Internal-change Agents in the Management of Organizational Change

    Jean Hartley;John Benington;Peter Binns

  • Enhancing Public Innovation by Transforming Public Governance

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  • Leadership for healthcare

    Jean Hartley;John Benington

  • Feeling the Squeeze: Public Employees’ Experiences of Cutback- and Innovation-Related Organizational Changes Following a National Announcement of Budget Reductions

    Tina Kiefer;Jean Hartley;Neil Conway;Rob B. Briner

  • Social class and psychological ill-health during unemployment.

    Roy Payne;Peter Warr;Jean Hartley

  • Into the Purple Zone: Deconstructing the politics/administration distinction

    John Alford;John Alford;Jean Hartley;Sophie Yates;Owen E. Hughes

Frequent Co-Authors

John Alford
John Alford University of Melbourne
Paul 't Hart
Paul 't Hart Utrecht University
Chris Skelcher
Chris Skelcher University of Birmingham
Rob B. Briner
Rob B. Briner University of Bath
Cam Donaldson
Cam Donaldson Glasgow Caledonian University
John Kelly
John Kelly University College London
Naomi Fulop
Naomi Fulop University College London
Jacob Torfing
Jacob Torfing Roskilde University
Mark Exworthy
Mark Exworthy University of Birmingham
Justin Waring
Justin Waring University of Birmingham

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