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Professor Bert George

@profgeorgebert.bsky.social
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Full Professor at CityUHK | Associate Dean | Public and Non-Profit Strategy | Experiments, Comparative Research and Research Syntheses | Consultant | Asia and EU | Co-Editor in Chief of @pmreview.bsky.social | 🇧🇪 in 🇭🇰.

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LI Qianhui @liqianhui.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The third paper with my fantastic supervisor!!! It’s about the curvilinear relationship between red tape and collaboration. See below⬇️
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
New paper with @liqianhui.bsky.social in @pmreview.bsky.social investigates relation between #redtape & #collaboration among #teachers. We uncover curvilinear relation, some red tape may be beneficial but beyond that collaboration benefits diminish. In #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Understanding collaboration as response to red tape among Street-level bureaucrats: a curvilinear relationship
Red tape is a significant challenge to street-level bureaucrats’ (SLBs) working experience and performance. While extensive research has examined its negative consequences, less attention has been ...
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Do have a look at this summary of my one hour interview on the Business of Government Hour podcast. Learn more about #strategicforesight, and how to integrate with #strategicplanning and #strategicmanagement. Using global cases from #EU #Flanders #Singapore and #USA www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Ez...
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Embedding Strategic Foresight into Strategic Planning: A Conversation with Prof. Bert George
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A conversation about foresight, planning and management in government. Thanks Michael Keegan from IBM Center for the Business of Government for inviting me to his Business of Government Hour podcast. 60 min of good old strategy talk, good start to the day www.businessofgovernment.org/interviews/5...
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
New paper: What is the effect of valuation tools on politicians' attitudes to reusing built #heritage? Bridging heritage studies and #publicadministration! With a kick-ass co-author aka my wife Astrid Harth. First publication as part of our new research cluster www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Understanding politicians’ attitudes to reusing built heritage: An experimental and behavioral approach
Across the globe, built heritage is being reused to serve specific policy goals of politicians. Such goals can include more efficiency, reusing built …
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Cool to see our conceptualization & measurement of strategizing picked up by @ec.europa.eu (reform-support.ec.europa.eu/public-admin...) & German consulting Optiso (www.optiso-consult.de/strategizing...). Check paper to learn more & use our tool for your practice: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Strategizing in public management: The concept and its measurement
Public management research has demonstrated that strategy matters for public service performance and public value creation. Most studies consider strategy as something public organizations “have” ̶...
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
How to embed #strategicforesight into #strategicplanning and management? In this report from IBM Center for the Business of Government, I stipulate 27 recommendations based on cases from #Singapore, #Flanders, #Europe and #USA. Hope it proves useful... www.businessofgovernment.org/sites/defaul...
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
What is strategizing & how can we measure it? New paper #openaccess in @ipmjournal.bsky.social. With the great John Bryson. We conceptualize strategizing & provide a measurement. We find four components: Purpose, analysis, place and implementation. Please share! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Strategizing in public management: The concept and its measurement
Public management research has demonstrated that strategy matters for public service performance and public value creation. Most studies consider strategy as something public organizations “have” ̶...
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gquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
"Most studies consider strategy as something public organizations “have” - a result of a planning and decision-making process or document - but say little about what practitioners “do" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Strategizing in public management: The concept and its measurement
Public management research has demonstrated that strategy matters for public service performance and public value creation. Most studies consider strategy as something public organizations “have” ̶...
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
What is strategizing & how can we measure it? New paper #openaccess in @ipmjournal.bsky.social. With the great John Bryson. We conceptualize strategizing & provide a measurement. We find four components: Purpose, analysis, place and implementation. Please share! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Strategizing in public management: The concept and its measurement
Public management research has demonstrated that strategy matters for public service performance and public value creation. Most studies consider strategy as something public organizations “have” ̶...
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Public Management Review @pmreview.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🎉 We're pleased to announce that on 1 October, @profgeorgebert.bsky.social (City University of Hong Kong) will join Prof Stephen Osborne as Co-Editor in Chief of Public Management Review. Bert has been Deputy Editor since 2024 @tandfresearch.bsky.social files.taylorandfrancis.com/rpxm-announc...
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
📶Combining #machinelearning & meta-narrative review allowed me to analyze > 6,000 articles on #strategicplanning. Published open access in Long Range Planning, a top #strategy journal. Trying to connect #publicmanagement & mainstream strategy research. Enjoy... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Towards purposeful strategic planning: A mixed research synthesis across disciplines
Strategic planning is one of the most popular strategy approaches across sectors and across the globe. Unsurprisingly, research on strategic planning …
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
How to measure the change capability of public organizations? Check our article in Public Money & Management (in open access) providing a reliable and theory-driven scale. #Change is the normal, but how to manage and prepare for it? This article provides the tool! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The organizational change capability of public organizations: Concept and measurement
Public managers, professionals, and external consultants can utilize the authors’ newly developed ‘organizational change capability’ (OCC) scale to assess and enhance change capabilities within the...
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Interested in studying #redtape? Or understanding what it's all about? Check our newly published (in #openaccess) review in @ipmjournal.bsky.social of 139 empirical studies on red tape! Led by the great @liqianhui.bsky.social. We lay the jigsaw puzzle for you... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Understanding the nomological network of red tape: Synthesis and research agenda
Due to the exponential increase of publications about red tape over the past two decades, an integrative review is needed to lay the jigsaw puzzle on empirical red tape research and identify blind ...
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Bologna, here we come from HK! Ready for @irspm.bsky.social's conference. Find me at newly established SIG abt strategizing & entrepreneurship for common good. I'll also present our experimental work in behavioral public management SIG. Looking forward to connecting, reach out it you'd like to chat!
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
New in @pareview.bsky.social with my fantastic PhD student @liqianhui.bsky.social. We unravel #redtape - #jobsatisfaction relation using data from > 100.000 #teachers from 46 countries! Self-efficacy & #culture both have a part to play, find out! #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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<em>Public Administration Review</em> | ASPA Journal | Wiley Online Library
Although red tape remains a significant policy concern and despite meta-analytical research showing that it impacts employee and performance outcomes, research elucidating why and under which conditi....
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
What an honor! We've been awarded 2024 Scholarly Impact Award from @ppmgmtjournal.bsky.social. Shout out to great colleagues from Ghent University & especially lead author Mieke Audenaert who led the way. Thanks @drhelenhyu.bsky.social. We love public #hrm community, & look forward to future success
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Steven Van de Walle @stevenvdwalle.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Rankings are used throughout the public sector to present performance information. What is the effect on information processing? New paper in @pmreview.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... with Lisa Hohensinn @profgeorgebert.bsky.social ebert.bsky.social @jurgenwillems.bsky.social
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Performance rankings reduce cognitive processing of underlying performance information
Performance information is often presented in a ranked format. Rankings aggregate a multitude of performance dimensions into an overall score. Simultaneously, rankings may constrain cognitive proce...
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
What an honor to have been interviewed by VnEconomy - i.e. the Vietnam Economic Times - for their Lunar New Year edition. A conversation about the future of Vietnam and what I see as strenghts and challenges. Shout out to AVSE Global for making it happen. In Vietnamese! vneconomy.vn/xay-dung-chi...
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Cool to see this post by @unesconow.bsky.social about our work in Latvia @oecd-ocde.bsky.social. They link our institutional capacity assessment tool to #SDG 4 - Quality #Education. Too often institutional capacity is neglected in educational systems, we countered that www.unesco.org/sdg4educatio...
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New report: Institutional Capacity Assessment of Latvia’s Education System
Advancing evidence-based education policy making for realizing SDG 4
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Looking back at the past year, which paper am I proudest of? I’d have to say this one in @pmreview.bsky.social - we take so much for granted about goals, & our framework on goal formation took several years to develop. But we did it! With John Bryson & Danbi Seo. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Understanding goal formation in strategic public management: a proposed theoretical framework
Organizational goals lie at the heart of strategic public management. While research has centred on the performance impact of organizational goals and goal clarity, the field remains unclear on whe...
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Today was the launch event of CUBBS, the CityU research cluster for Brain, Behavior and Society. I am honored to serve as its inaugural director, with a fantastic team. Our aim is to use #neuroscience and #behavioralscience to tackle societal challenges. Let's do this! More soon. Thanks for support!
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Strategic planning - 6th edition has been out for 5 months. Reactions have been overwhelming, & we're most grateful & honored that many people seem to find it useful. How to develop & implement a strategic plan that helps organizations achieve success? Check it out: www.amazon.com/Strategic-Pl...
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Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement
Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement [Bryson, John M., George, Bert] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement
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Professor Bert George @profgeorgebert.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Here we go! First post on @bsky.app. Looking forward to seeing & sharing research related to #publicmanagement, #publicadministration, #strategicplanning, #strategicmanagement, #redtape, #administrativeburden & the application of #neuroscience & #behavioralscience to societal issues. Let's connect!
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