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Overview

Sandra van Thiel is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands and has a research portfolio centered mainly within the social sciences, with a strong focus on public administration and related fields. Their work covers 28 publications in social sciences, including 12 specifically in public administration, 8 in organizational behavior and human resource management, 6 in political science and international relations, as well as contributions to urban studies and sociology and political science.

The primary topics explored in van Thiel's research include public policy and administration research, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, policy transfer and learning, cultural industries and urban development, the nonprofit sector and volunteering, sustainability and climate change governance, and housing, finance, and neoliberalism.

Several recent papers provide an overview of their academic focus and publication history. These include:

  • The future of public administration research: An editor's perspective (2022), published in Public Administration
  • Re-interpreting re-municipalization: finding equilibrium (2020), Journal of Economic Policy Reform
  • Performance of municipally owned corporations: Determinants and mechanisms (2020), Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
  • Public sector creativity as the origin of public sector innovation: A taxonomy and future research agenda (2021), Public Administration
  • Public servants' creativity: salient stimulators and inhibitors a longitudinal qualitative digital diary study (2022), Public Management Review

Van Thiel frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Peter M. Kruyen (10 joint publications), Glenn Houtgraaf (6), Anthony B. L. Cheung (3), Bart Voorn (2), and Joëlle van der Meer (2). These collaborations contribute to a broad interdisciplinary approach within the public administration and management fields.

Their papers are often published in established journals, with multiple appearances in Public Administration (3 publications), International Journal of Public Sector Management (3), Public Management Review (2), Public Administration Review (2), and Bestuurskunde (2).

Sandra van Thiel has also contributed to book publications with two notable works. One is "Crisis Leadership and Public Governance during the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2022), published by World Scientific, and the other is "Kansen begrensd: Evaluatie van de Kansspelautoriteit" (2020), published by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • THE PERFORMANCE PARADOX IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

    Sandra van Thiel;Frans L. Leeuw

  • New Public Management in Europe

    Christopher Pollitt;Sandra van Thiel;Vincent Homburg

  • Government agencies : practices and lessons from 30 countries

    Koen Verhoest;Sandra van Thiel;Geert Bouckaert;Per Lægreid

  • Research Methods in Public Administration and Public Management: An Introduction

    Sandra van Thiel

  • Quangos--What's in a Name? Defining Quangos from a Comparative Perspective

    Carsten Greve;Matthew Flinders;Sandra Van Thiel

  • Political influence and bureaucratic autonomy

    Kutsal Yesilkagit;Sandra van Thiel

  • The Performance Paradox in the Public Sector

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

    Sandra Groeneveld;Lars Tummers;Babette Bronkhorst;Tanachia Ashikali

  • Comparing Agencies across Countries

    Sandra Van Thiel

  • Quangos: Trends, Causes and Consequences

    Sandra van Thiel

  • The efficiency and effectiveness of municipally owned corporations: a systematic review

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  • Innovation-Oriented Culture in the Public Sector: Do managerial autonomy and result control lead to innovation?

    Jan Wynen;Koen Verhoest;Edoardo Ongaro;Sandra van Thiel

  • Research in Public Administration

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  • New public management in Europe : adaptation and alternatives

    Christopher Pollitt;Sandra van Thiel;Vincent Homburg

  • The Future of Public Administration Research: An Editor's Perspective

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  • Quangocratization: trends, causes and consequences

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  • Trends in the Public Sector: Why Politicians Prefer Quasi-Autonomous Organizations

    Sandra van Thiel

  • Multiple principals, multiple problems: Implications for effective governance and a research agenda for joint service delivery

    Bart Voorn;Marieke van Genugten;Sandra van Thiel

  • Agencification and Public Sector Performance: A systematic comparison in 20 countries

    Sjors Overman;Sandra van Thiel

  • Structural Devolution to Agencies

    Oliver James;Sandra van Thiel

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe

    Edoardo Ongaro;Sandra Van Thiel

  • Autonomous Agencies and Perceptions of Stakeholder Influence in Parliamentary Democracies

    Kutsal Yesilkagit;Sandra van Thiel

  • Birds of a Feather? The Effect of Organizational Value Congruence on the Relationship Between Ministries and Quangos

    Sandra van Thiel;Zeger van der Wal

  • Quangos in Dutch government

    Sandra van Thiel

  • Public Sector Creativity as the Origin of Public Sector Innovation: A taxonomy and future research agenda

    Glenn Houtgraaf;Peter M. Kruyen;Sandra van Thiel

  • Public Administration and Public Management Research in Europe: Traditions and Trends

    Edoardo Ongaro;Sandra van Thiel;Andrew Massey;Jon Pierre

  • Lessons and Recommendations for the Practice of Agencification

    Sandra Van Thiel;Koen Verhoest;Geert Bouckaert;Per Lœgreid

  • The Governance of Public and Non-Profit Organisations: What do Boards do?

    Sandra van Thiel

  • Book Review: Mapping coordination reforms, part I?: Geert Bouckaert, Guy Peters and Koen Verhoest (2010) The Coordination of Public Sector Organizations: Shifting Patterns of Public Management. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

    Sandra van Thiel

Frequent Co-Authors

Koen Verhoest
Koen Verhoest University of Antwerp
Lars Tummers
Lars Tummers Utrecht University
Bram Steijn
Bram Steijn Erasmus University Rotterdam
Victor Bekkers
Victor Bekkers Erasmus University Rotterdam
Per Lægreid
Per Lægreid University of Bergen
Beatrice van der Heijden
Beatrice van der Heijden Radboud University
Jon Pierre
Jon Pierre University of Gothenburg
Matthew Flinders
Matthew Flinders University of Sheffield
Barbara Vis
Barbara Vis Utrecht University

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