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Political Science
UK
2023

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Political Science

D-Index
50
Citations
16922
World Ranking
230
National Ranking
32

Business and Management

D-Index
50
Citations
16933
World Ranking
971
National Ranking
145

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Stephen P. Osborne is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Social Sciences, with a focus on several related subfields including Marketing, Public Administration, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as Service and Product Innovation, Public Policy and Administration Research, Management and Organizational Studies, Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development, Customer Service Quality and Loyalty, Community Development and Social Impact, as well as Mental Health and Patient Involvement.

Stephen P. Osborne has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Beyond co-production: Value creation and public services (2021), Public Administration
  • Value Creation in the Public Service Ecosystem: An Integrative Framework (2022), Public Administration Review
  • New development: 'Appreciate-Engage-Facilitate'-The role of public managers in value creation in public service ecosystems (2021), Public Money & Management

Frequent collaborators include Tie Cui, Kirsty Strokosch, Greta Nasi, Maria Cucciniello, and Madeline Powell.

Stephen's research is regularly published in venues such as Public Money & Management, Global Public Policy and Governance, Public Administration, Public Management Review, and Policy & Politics.

They have also authored book publications, including a title released by Cambridge University Press in 2024, Public Service Explained.

Best Publications

  • The New Public Governance? 1

    Stephen P. Osborne

  • The new public governance? : emerging perspectives on the theory and practice of public governance

    Stephen Peter Osborne

  • A New Theory for Public Service Management? Toward a (Public) Service-Dominant Approach:

    Stephen P Osborne;Zoe Radnor;Greta Nasi

  • Public-private partnerships : theory and practice in international perspective

    Stephen P. Osborne

  • Managing Change and Innovation in Public Service Organizations

    Stephen P. Osborne;Kerry Brown

  • Co-production and the co-creation of value in public services: A suitable case for treatment?

    Stephen P. Osborne;Zoe J. Radnor;Kirsty Strokosch

  • New Public Management: Current Trends and Future Prospects

    Ewan Ferlie;Kate McLaughlin;Stephen P Osborne

  • INNOVATION, PUBLIC POLICY AND PUBLIC SERVICES DELIVERY IN THE UK. THE WORD THAT WOULD BE KING?

    Stephen P. Osborne;Louise Brown

  • It takes Two to Tango? Understanding the Co-production of Public Services by Integrating the Services Management and Public Administration Perspectives

    Stephen P. Osborne;Kirsty Strokosch

  • From public service-dominant logic to public service logic: Are public service organizations capable of co-production and value co-creation?

    Stephen P. Osborne

  • Lean: A failed theory for public services?

    Zoe Radnor;Stephen Peter Osborne

  • Delivering Public Services: Time for a new theory?

    Stephen Peter Osborne

  • Voluntary organizations and innovation in public services

    Stephen P. Osborne

  • Risk and innovation: towards a framework for risk governance in public services

    Louise Brown;Stephen P. Osborne

  • Handbook of Innovation in Public Services

    Stephen P. Osborne;Louise Brown

  • The SERVICE framework: a public service-dominant approach to sustainable public services

    Stephen P. Osborne;Zoe J. Radnor;Tony Kinder;Isabel Vidal

  • Operationalizing Co-Production in Public Services Delivery: The contribution of service blueprinting

    Zoe Radnor;Stephen P. Osborne;Tony Kinder;Jean Mutton

  • Patterns of co-production in public services - Some concluding thoughts

    Victor Pestoff;Stephen P. Osborne;Taco Brandsen

  • The New Public Management in context

    Stephen P. Osborne;Kate McLaughlin

  • Naming the Beast: Defining and Classifying Service Innovations in Social Policy

    Stephen P. Osborne

  • Value creation in the public service ecosystem: An integrative framework

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  • Co-production. The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services

    Stephen Osborne;T. Brandsen;V. Pestoff

  • The Handbook of Social Capital

    Stephen P. Osborne

Frequent Co-Authors

Zoe Radnor
Zoe Radnor Aston University
Taco Brandsen
Taco Brandsen Radboud University
Richard M. Walker
Richard M. Walker Lingnan University
Tony Bovaird
Tony Bovaird University of Birmingham
John Rodwell
John Rodwell Swinburne University of Technology
Sandra Nutley
Sandra Nutley University of St Andrews
Ewan Ferlie
Ewan Ferlie King's College London

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