Select Publications
Books
2022, Contingent Collaboration, Cambridge University Press (CUP), http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009128513
,2022, Targeting Commitment Interagency Performance in New Zealand, Brookings Institution Press
,2022, Interagency Performance Targets Better Service Through a Focus on Results, Brookings / Ash Center Series, "Innovative Governance in the 21st Century
,2020, Institutional Memory as Storytelling How Networked Government Remembers, Cambridge University Press
,2018, Group Model Building Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement, Springer
,2018, Group Model Building, Springer Singapore, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8959-6
,2017, Interagency Performance Targets: A Case Study of New Zealand’s Results Programme, IBM, New York, http://www.businessofgovernment.org/sites/default/files/Interagency%20Performance%20Targets.pdf
,Book Chapters
2021, 'High autonomy, high alignment: coordinating a more unified public service', in Policy-making Under Pressure Rethinking the Policy Process in Aotearoa New Zealand
,2020, 'Collaboration Governance and System Dynamics Modelling: What Do Clients Want?', in Enabling Collaborative Governance through Systems Modeling Methods Public Policy Design and Implementation, Springer Nature
,2018, 'Basic Elements of Group Model Building', in Group Model Building Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement, Springer, pp. 19 - 28
,2018, 'Building Integrated Theory', in Group Model Building Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement, Springer, pp. 99 - 113
,2018, 'Communication Quality, Insight, Consensus and Commitment to Conclusions', in Group Model Building Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement, Springer, pp. 45 - 54
,2018, 'Comparing Participant Support for Different Explanatory Mechanisms', in Group Model Building Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement, Springer, pp. 87 - 98
,2018, 'Desired Outcomes of Group Model Building', in Group Model Building Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement, Springer, pp. 5 - 18
,2018, 'Discussion', in Group Model Building Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement, Springer, pp. 115 - 119
,2018, 'Explanatory Mechanisms for Group Model Building', in Group Model Building Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement, Springer, pp. 69 - 86
,2018, 'Introduction', in Group Model Building Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement, Springer, pp. 1 - 4
,2018, 'Mental Model Alignment', in Group Model Building Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement, Springer, pp. 55 - 68
,2018, 'Outcomes of Group Model Building', in Group Model Building Using Systems Dynamics to Achieve Enduring Agreement, Springer, pp. 29 - 44
,2018, 'Desired Outcomes of Group Decisions', in SpringerBriefs in Operations Research, Springer Singapore, pp. 5 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8959-6_2
,2018, 'Introduction', in SpringerBriefs in Operations Research, Springer Singapore, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8959-6_1
,2017, 'Interpersonal Success Factors for Strategy Implementation: A Case Study Using Group Model Building', in System Dynamics Soft and Hard Operational Research, Springer, pp. 133 - 162
,2016, 'Results, Targets and Measures to Drive Collaboration: Lessons from the New Zealand Better Public Services reforms', in The Three Sector Solution Delivering public policy in collaboration with not-for-profits and business, ANU Press, pp. 235 - 257
,Journal articles
2024, 'Policy that doesn’t Burn Out, but Merely Fades Away: Ageing and Drift of Performance Specification in New Zealand', International Journal of Public Administration, 47, pp. 877 - 881, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2024.2345700
,2023, 'Administrative philosophies in the discourse and decisions of the New Zealand public service: is post-New Public Management still a myth?', International Review of Administrative Sciences, 89, pp. 941 - 957, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00208523221101727
,2023, '(Non) rationality and choice architecture: a behavioural approach to public administrative discretion in New Zealand', International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 31, pp. 1257 - 1278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-12-2022-3555
,2023, 'Schizophrenia risk conferred by rare protein-truncating variants is conserved across diverse human populations', Nature Genetics, 55, pp. 369 - 376, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01305-1
,2023, 'A spirit of service to the community: public service motivation in the New Zealand public service', Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 45, pp. 238 - 243, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23276665.2023.2233644
,2023, 'Determined to succeed: Can goal commitment sustain interagency collaboration?', Public Policy and Administration, 38, pp. 3 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952076720905002
,2022, 'Sex-Dependent Shared and Nonshared Genetic Architecture Across Mood and Psychotic Disorders', Biological Psychiatry, 91, pp. 102 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.02.972
,2021, 'When the going gets tough, the goal-committed get going: overcoming the transaction costs of inter-agency collaborative governance', Public Management Review, 23, pp. 1640 - 1663, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2021.1879916
,2020, 'Institutional Memory as Storytelling', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108780001
,2020, 'Making sense of New Zealand’s ‘spirit of service’: social identity and the civil service', Public Money and Management, 40, pp. 579 - 588, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2020.1735109
,2018, 'A comparison of management adaptations for joined‐up government: Lessons from New Zealand', Australian Journal of Public Administration, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12348
,2018, 'Singular memory or institutional memories? Toward a dynamic approach', Governance, 31, pp. 555 - 573, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gove.12340
,2017, 'Explaining how group model building supports enduring agreement', Journal of Management and Organization, pp. 1 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2017.12
,2017, 'Joined-Up for What? Response to Carey and Harris on Adaptive Collaboration', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 76, pp. 138 - 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12233
,2017, 'The PerformanceStat Potential: A Leadership Strategy for Producing ResultsRobert D.Behn (Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2014, ISBN 978‐0‐8157‐2527‐5 (paperback), 413 pp.)', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 76, pp. 268 - 270, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12226
,2016, 'Client Perceptions of Reported Outcomes of Group Model Building in the New Zealand Public Sector', Group Decision and Negotiation, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10726-015-9433-y
,2016, 'Recent evidence on the effectiveness of group model building', European Journal of Operational Research, 249, pp. 908 - 918, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.06.078
,2015, 'Interpersonal success factors for strategy implementation: a case study using group model building', Journal of the Operational Research Society, 66, pp. 1023 - 1034, http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/jors.2014.70
,2014, 'A Systems Perspective on the Natural Resources Framework: comment on Hearnshaw et al.', Policy Quarterly, 10, pp. 59 - 62, http://igps.victoria.ac.nz/publications/files/3d69af7dcc4.pdf
,2014, 'Mechanisms for Understanding Mental Model Change in Group Model Building', Systems Research and Behavioral Science, pp. n/a - n/a, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sres.2303
,2013, 'Evaluating immediate and long-term impacts of qualitative group model building workshops on participants' mental models', System Dynamics Review, 29, pp. 216 - 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/sdr.1505
,Conference Papers
2016, 'Do capability reviews improve agency performance? A quantitative summative assessment of the New Zealand Performance Improvement Framework', in Public Management Research Conference, Aarhus, presented at Public Management Research Conference, Aarhus, 22 June 2016 - 24 June 2016
,2016, 'Collaborating for results in New Zealand: Evaluation using mixed methods and triangulation.', St Gallen Switzerland, presented at International Public Management Network, St Gallen Switzerland, 01 June 2016 - 03 June 2016
,2015, 'Joint ventures in the public sector: Translating lessons from the private sector to New Zealand government departments', Queenstown, New Zealand, presented at Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management, Queenstown, New Zealand, 01 December 2015 - 04 December 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.3836.2645
,2015, 'The New Zealand Better Public Services Results: a comparative analysis linking inter-agency collaboration with outcome performance', Queenstown, New Zealand, presented at Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management, Queenstown, New Zealand, 01 December 2015 - 04 December 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.4884.8401
,2014, 'Causal mapping of the New Zealand natural resources sector: a group model building approach.', Delft, Netherlands, presented at International System Dynamics Society, Delft, Netherlands, 16 July 2014 - 19 July 2014, http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2014/proceed/papers/P1412.pdf
,2014, 'Group model building - do clients value reported outcomes?', Delft, Netherlands, presented at International System Dynamics Society, Delft, Netherlands, 16 July 2014 - 19 July 2014, http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2014/proceed/papers/P1017.pdf
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