Professor Janine O'Flynn
Areas of expertise
- Public Administration 160509
- Public Policy 160510
- Australian Government And Politics 160601
- Policy And Administration 1605
- Strategy, Management And Organisational Behaviour 3507
Research interests
Public management and administration
Public sector reform
Government relationships with external parties/providers
Performance management
Organisational theory
Biography
My research interests are in public management, especially reform and relationships. This covers topics such as the creation and evolution of public service markets, collaboration, joined-up government, public value, performance management systems, and the intersection of morality and public management practice. My collaborative research projects have received several academic awards including best article in Public Administration Review and Review of Public Personnel Administration; best book at Academy of Management; and several best paper awards at Academy of Management. I am an Associate Editor at Public Management Review, previously I was an editor at Australian Journal of Public Administration, and I am an editorial board member for several leading journals in the field.
My teaching focuses on management issues in the public sector and challenges faced by contemporary leaders. I have worked extensively with professionals from across the world and have been recognised for teaching excellence through various awards. As a keen observer of international practice in public management, I have had the opportunity to provide expert advice to a range of policymakers across the world. In 2019, I was commissioned to co-author a major research paper to inform the work of the Independent Review of the Australian Public Service in relation to how commissioning and contracting could be done by the federal government.
BI was an elected member of the executive board of the International Research Society for Public Management (2012-2018), and I was elected to the board of the Public Management Research Association Board in 2021. In 2022, I was elected a fellow of the (US) National Academy of Public Administration, and in 2013 I was appointed a fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia (Victoria). I have been a member of the Advisory Board for the Australian Public Service Commission Centre for Leadership and Learning (2018-2020) and a member of the Infrastructure Victoria Expert Panel on the Role of Infrastructure in Addressing Regional Disadvantage (2019-2020). In 2022, I was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Victorian Public Sector Commission, and the Institute for Public Administration Australian Council for the Australian Capital Territory.
Together my various activities across research, education and engagement seek to better understand how government works and to contribute to improving the outcomes of those activities.
PUBLICATIONS BEING UPDATED
Publications
- Alford, J & O'Flynn, J 2012, Rethinking Public Service Delivery, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, England.
- Halligan, J, Buick, F & O'Flynn, J 2011, 'Experiments with Joined-Up, Horizontal and Whole-of-Government in Anglophone Countries', in Andrew Massey (ed.), International Handbook on Civil Service Systems, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 74-99.
- O'Flynn, J, Blackman, D & Halligan, J 2011, 'Working Across Boundaries: Value, Innovation and Partnership', International Research Society for Public Management Conference (IRSPM 2011), International Research Society for Public Management, Dublin Ireland, p. 15.
- O'Flynn, J (2011) You win some, you lose some: Experiments with joined-up government, International Journal of Public Administration, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 244-254.
- O'Flynn, J, et al (2011) Perspectives on the capacity of the Australian Public Service and Effective Policy Development and Implementation, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 70 (3), pp. 309-317.
- O'Flynn, J. (2011) All Praise Public Value? The Ideas, The Debate and Some Applications, Guest Editor Introduction to special issue on Public Value, Australian Journal of Public Administration
- Ainsworth, S, Knox, A & O'Flynn, J 2010, 'A Blinding Lack of Progress: Management Rhetoric and Affirmative Action', Gender, Work and Organization, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 658-678.
- Blackman, D, Buick, F, Halligan, J et al. 2010, 'Australian Experiments with Whole of Government: Constraints and Paradoxes in Practice', 14th International Research Society for Public Management Conference (IRSPM 2010), International Research Society for Public Management, web, pp. 1-26.
- Blackman, D, O'Flynn, J & Mishra, D (2010) Can Strategic Human Resource Management enable Gross National Happiness?' International Journal of Commerce and Management, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 232-245.
- Blackman, D., Buick, F., Halligan, J., O'Flynn, J. and Marsh, I (2010) Australian Experiments with Whole of Government: Constraints and Paradoxes in Practice, paper presented at International Research Society for Public Management conference, Berne, Switzerland, April 7-10.
- O'Flynn, J, Halligan, J & Blackman, D (2010), Working Across Boundaries: Barriers, Enablers, Tensions and Puzzles', International Research Society for Public Management Conference (IRSPM 2010), International Research Society for Public Management, web, pp. 1-22.
- O'Flynn, J., Halligan, J. and Blackman, D. (2010) Working Across Boundaries: Barriers, Enablers, Tensions and Puzzles, paper presented at International Research Society for Public Management conference, Berne, Switzerland, April 7-10.
- O'Flynn, J. (2009) The Public Value Debate: Emerging Ethical Issues. Public Leadership Workshop, 26-27 November, The Australian National University, Canberra.
- O'Flynn, J & Blackman, D 2009, 'Experimenting with organisational development in Bhutan: A tool for reform and the achievement of multi-level goals?', Public Administration and Development, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 133-144.
- O'Flynn, J & Alford, J 2009, 'Making sense of public value: concepts, critiques and emergent meanings', International Journal of Public Administration, vol. 32, no. 3-4, pp. 171-191.
- O'Flynn, J 2009, 'The cult of collaboration in Public Policy', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 112-6.
- O'Flynn, J 2008, 'Australian Capital Territory: July to December 2007', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 336-341.
- Alford, J & O'Flynn, J 2008, 'Public Value: A Stocktake of a Concept', International Research Society for Public Management Conference (IRSPM 2008), ed. Kerry Brown, Myrna Mandell, Crag Furneaux, Sandy Beach, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
- O'Flynn, J 2008, 'Elusive Appeal or Aspirational Ideal? The rhetoric and reality of the 'collaborative Turn' in public policy', in Janine O'Flynn and John Wanna (ed.), Collaborative Governance: A new era of public policy in Australia, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia, pp. 181-195.
- O'Flynn, J & Alford, J 2008, 'The separation/Specification Dilemma in Contracting: The Local Government Experience in Victoria', Public Administration, vol. 86, no. 1, pp. 205-224.
- O'Flynn, J & Wanna, J, eds, 2008, Collaborative Governance: A new era of public policy in Australia, ANU ePress, Canberra, Australia.
- O'Flynn, J 2008, 'Political Chronicles: Australian Capital Territory: January to June 2008', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 657-662.
- O'Flynn, J 2007, 'Political Chronicles: Australian Capital Territory: January to June 2007', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 330-336.
- Aulich, C & O'Flynn, J 2007, 'John Howard: the great privatiser?', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 365-381.
- O'Flynn, J 2007, 'From New Public Management to Public Value: Paradigmatic Change and Managerial Implications', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 353-366.
- Aulich, C & O'Flynn J 2007, 'From Public to Private: The Australian Experience of Privatisation', Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 153-171.
- Ainsworth, S, Knox, A & O'Flynn, J 2006, '(Re)producing Gender: Management Accounts of Affirmative Action', International Colloquium Of Asia-Pacific Researchers In Organization Studies, ed. Conference Program Committee, RMIT Publishing, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 564-574.
- O'Flynn, J 2006, 'Political Chronicles: Australian Capital Territory: January to June 2006', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 684-689.
- O'Flynn, J 2006, 'Political Chronicles: Australian Capital Territory: July to December 2005', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 332-336.
- O'Flynn, J 2005, 'Political Chronicles: Australian Capital Territory: January to June 2005', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 621-627.
- O'Flynn, J 2005, 'Political Chronicles: Australian Capital Territory: July to December 2004', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 321-326.
- O'Flynn, J 2004, 'Political Chronicles: Australian Capital Territory: January to June 2004', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 636-639.
- O'Flynn, J, Sammartino, A & Nicholas, S 2003, 'The Employer Perspective of Indigenous (Un)Employment', Economic Papers, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 45-60.
