The future of public management as we emerge from the acute phase of COVID-19: key themes and future trajectories

Sophie Yates, Janine O’Flynn, Helen Dickinson and Catherine Smith

Chapter 27 in Research Handbook on Public Management and COVID-19, 2024, pp 354-368 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The global pandemic reshaped the lives of people worldwide and has also challenged the field of public management. In this book, authors from around the world have explored a range of important topics and questions, bringing to the forefront critical public management issues. Here, we draw on these contributions to focus on six cross-cutting themes that position us to think about the future of the field: the implications of operating in a world increasingly marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA); central trade-offs and tensions raised by governing during the pandemic; what the pandemic has revealed about government capacity; who is talking and who is listened to during the pandemic era; entrenched disadvantages revealed and exacerbated by COVID-19; and temporality and our ability to plan for protracted crises. We reinforce our argument that the COVID-19 pandemic offers an opportunity for the field of public management to reflect and reorient.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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