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Netherlands
2026

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Political Science

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54
Citations
15356
World Ranking
172
National Ranking
8

Business and Management

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Citations
15298
World Ranking
691
National Ranking
23

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Lars Tummers is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and specializes in social sciences. Their research encompasses a variety of subfields, including safety research, sociology and political science, organizational behavior and human resource management, education, and public administration.

Their main topics of work span several areas such as job satisfaction and organizational behavior, public policy and administration research, COVID-19 and mental health, social and intergroup psychology, organizational leadership and management strategies, disability education and employment, and retirement, disability, and employment.

Lars Tummers has contributed to multiple recent papers published in well-known academic journals. Notable works include:

  • Organizational Citizenship Behavior in the Public Sector: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda, 2020, Public Administration Review
  • Teacher leadership: A systematic review, methodological quality assessment and conceptual framework, 2020, Educational Research Review
  • Job performance in healthcare: a systematic review, 2022, BMC Health Services Research
  • A Systematic Review of Field Experiments in Public Administration, 2020, Public Administration Review
  • Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour

Collaborations with frequent co-authors in Lars Tummers' research include Jesper Asring Jessen Hansen, Rosanna Nagtegaal, Alex Ingrams, Sanjay K. Pandey, and Henrico van Roekel.

Publication venues where Lars has frequently contributed are:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Public Administration Review
  • Public Management Review
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Educational Research Review

Best Publications

  • A Systematic Review of Co-Creation and Co-Production: Embarking on the social innovation journey

    William Voorberg;Victor Bekkers;Lars Tummers

  • INNOVATION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND FUTURE RESEARCH AGENDA

    Hanna De Vries;Victor Bekkers;Lars Tummers

  • Open Source Software for Efficient and Transparent Reviews

    Rens van de Schoot;Jonathan de Bruin;Raoul Schram;Parisa Zahedi

  • The management of change in public organizations: a literature review

    Ben S. Kuipers;Malcolm Higgs;Walter Kickert;Lars Tummers

  • Behavioral Public Administration: Combining Insights from Public Administration and Psychology

    Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen;Sebastian Jilke;Asmus Leth Olsen;Lars Tummers

  • Coping During Public Service Delivery: A Conceptualization and Systematic Review of the Literature

    Lars L. G. Tummers;Lars L. G. Tummers;Victor Bekkers;Evelien Vink;Michael Musheno

  • Policy Implementation, Street-level Bureaucracy, and the Importance of Discretion

    Lars Tummers;Victor Bekkers

  • Working on working together. A systematic review on how healthcare professionals contribute to interprofessional collaboration

    Evert Schot;Lars Tummers;Mirko Noordegraaf

  • Leadership and Meaningful Work in the Public Sector

    Lars G. Tummers;Eva Knies

  • Facing off with Scylla and Charybdis: a comparison of scalar, partial, and the novel possibility of approximate measurement invariance.

    Rens van de Schoot;Rens van de Schoot;Anouck Kluytmans;Lars Tummers;Peter Lugtig

  • The Benefits of Teleworking in the Public Sector: Reality or Rhetoric?

    Hanna de Vries;Lars Tummers;Victor Bekkers

  • Leadership and Job Demands-Resources Theory: A Systematic Review

    Lars G Tummers;Arnold B Bakker

  • Policy Alienation of Public Professionals: Application in a New Public Management context

    Lars Tummers;Victor Bekkers;Bram Steijn

  • Which Clients are Deserving of Help? : A Theoretical Model and Experimental Test

    Sebastian Jilke;Lars Tummers

  • Explaining the willingness of public professionals to implement new policies: a policy alienation framework:

    Lars Tummers

  • Quantitative Methods in Public Administration: Their Use and Development Through Time

    Sandra Groeneveld;Lars Tummers;Babette Bronkhorst;Tanachia Ashikali

  • Policy alienation of public professionals: The construct and its measurement

    Lars Tummers

  • Why do nurses intend to leave their organization? A large-scale analysis in long-term care.

    Lars G. Tummers;Lars G. Tummers;Sandra M. Groeneveld;Marcel Lankhaar

  • ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE AND EMPLOYEE MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF STUDIES IN HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

    Babette Bronkhorst;Lars Tummers;Bram Steijn;Dominique Vijverberg

  • EXPLAINING THE WILLINGNESS OF PUBLIC PROFESSIONALS TO IMPLEMENT PUBLIC POLICIES: CONTENT, CONTEXT, AND PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS

    Lars Tummers;Bram Steijn;Victor Bekkers

  • The Necessity of Discretion: A Behavioral Evaluation of Bottom-Up Implementation Theory

    Eva Thomann;Nadine van Engen;Lars Tummers

  • The effects of work alienation on organisational commitment, work effort and work-to-family enrichment.

    Lars G. Tummers;Laura Den Dulk

  • MEASURING PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: DEVELOPING SCALES FOR FOUR KEY PUBLIC LEADERSHIP ROLES

    Lars Tummers;Lars Tummers;Eva Knies

  • Organizational Citizenship Behavior in the Public Sector: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

    Christa J. C. de Geus;Alex Ingrams;Lars Tummers;Sanjay K. Pandey

  • HRM and its effect on employee, organizational and financial outcomes in health care organizations

    Brenda Vermeeren;Bram Steijn;Lars Tummers;Marcel Lankhaar

  • An open source machine learning framework for efficient and transparent systematic reviews

    Rens van de Schoot;Jonathan de Bruin;Raoul Schram;Parisa Zahedi

  • The Management of Change in Public Organisations: A Literature Review

    Ben Kuipers;Malcolm Higgs;Walter Kickert;Lars G. Tummers

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Bekkers
Victor Bekkers Erasmus University Rotterdam
Bram Steijn
Bram Steijn Erasmus University Rotterdam
Rens van de Schoot
Rens van de Schoot Utrecht University
Sandra van Thiel
Sandra van Thiel Erasmus University Rotterdam
Bernhard Truffer
Bernhard Truffer Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Mirko Noordegraaf
Mirko Noordegraaf Utrecht University
Walter J.M. Kickert
Walter J.M. Kickert Erasmus University Rotterdam
Joop J. Hox
Joop J. Hox Utrecht University
Sanjay K. Pandey
Sanjay K. Pandey George Washington University

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