Janine O'Flynn

BCom (Hons. 1st Class, Melb.)
PhD (Melb.) - Competition and Contracts: Implementing Compulsory Competitive Tendering in the Victorian Local Government Sector (2004)

Public Management Australia
a blog written by Janine O'Flynn

Bio

Janine’s research interests are in public sector reform, public sector management and public policy generally, and more specifically in government contracting and service delivery, relationships with external parties, managing human resources, and the concept of public value. Prior to joining the Crawford School Janine held posts as a Senior Lecturer in Public Sector Management at the University of Canberra and as a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Research interests/expertise

Public sector management
Public sector reform and relationships
The role of public managers and paradigmatic change
People management in the public sector

Current Projects

Janine’s current projects revolve around the key themes of public sector reform and relationships. She is a Chief Investigator on a large ARC Linkage Project examining whole-of-government approaches to policy-making, implementation and service delivery. This project involves six Commonwealth government organisations: Prime Minister and Cabinet; Australian Public Service Commission; Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs; Australian Government Information Office; and the Department of Health and Ageing. Amongst a range of issues in the project we are investigating inter-organisational collaboration, horizontal and vertical coordination, incentive structures, and organisational culture. We have focused on several cases in which to pursue these issues: the strategic coordinating role of central agencies; the Council of Australian Governments; pandemic preparedness; Indigenous Coordination Centres; Landcare; and the implementation of the Gershon Report (IT).

Along with Crawford colleague Ann Nevile, Janine is a Chief Investigator on a new ARC Linkage Project focused on trust, competition and control in the new generation employment services model in Australia.

Janine is currently co-authoring a book with John Alford on how and why government organisations work with a range of external providers (e.g. private, public, non-profit, clients, volunteers) to deliver services. The book will consider different models of engagement, how these work (or not) and under what conditions and circumstances some might be more valuable than others.

She continues to write on the "public value" approach, public sector reform in Bhutan and will soon begin new work on the changing role of managers in the public sector.

Selected Publications

*Full list available on request

Ainsworth, S., Knox, A. and O’Flynn, J. (forthcoming) A Blinding Lack of Progress: Management Rhetoric and Affirmative Action, Gender, Work and Organization
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Blackman, D., O’Flynn, J. and Mishra, D.P (forthcoming) Can Strategic Human Resource Management enable Gross National Happiness?, International Journal of Commerce and Management

O’Flynn, J, and Blackman, D. (2009) Experimenting With Organisational Design In Bhutan: Tools For Reform And The Achievement Of Multi-Level Goals, Public Administration And Development, 29(2), pp. 133-144
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O'Flynn, J. (2009) The Cult of Collaboration in Public Policy, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 68 (1), pp. 112-116.
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Alford, J. and O'Flynn, J (2009) Making Sense of Public Value: Concepts, Critiques and Emergent Meanings, International Journal of Public Administration, 32 (3-4), pp. 171-191. view publication online >>

O’Flynn, J. (2008) Australian Capital Territory Political Chronicles, Australian Journal of Politics and History: Volume 54, Number 4, pp. 657-662
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O’Flynn, J. (2008) Australian Capital Territory Political Chronicles, Australian Journal of Politics and History: Volume 54, Number 2, pp. 336-341
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Alford, J. and O’Flynn J. (2008) Public Value: A Stocktake of a Concept, paper presented at Twelfth Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management, Brisbane, April.
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O’Flynn, J. (2008) Elusive Appeal or Aspirational Ideal? The Rhetoric and Reality of the ‘Collaborative Turn’ in Public Policy, in O’Flynn, J. and Wanna, J. (eds.) Collaborative Governance: A New Era of Public Policy in Australia, Australia and New Zealand School of Government, The Australian National University, ANU E-Press, Canberra.

O’Flynn, J. and Alford, J. (2008) The Separation/Specification Dilemma in Contracting: The Local Government Experience in Victoria, Public Administration.
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O’Flynn, J, and Blackman, D. (2008) Experimenting with Organisational Design in Bhutan: Tools for Reform and the Achievement of Multi-Level Goals, Policy and Governance Discussion Paper, Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Canberra
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O’Flynn, J. and Wanna, J. (eds.) (2008) Collaborative Governance: A New Era of Public Policy in Australia, Australia and New Zealand School of Government, The Australian National University, ANU E-Press, Canberra.
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Aulich, C. and O'Flynn, J. (2007) From Public to Private: The Australian Experience of Privatisation, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 29 (2), pp.151-169.
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Aulich, C. and O'Flynn, J. (2007) John Howard: The Great Privatiser? Australian Journal of Political Science, 42:2, 365 – 381.
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O’Flynn, J. (2007) From New Public Management to Public Value: Paradigmatic Change and Managerial Implications, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 66(3).
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O’Flynn, J. (2006) Post-Bureaucratic, Post-Competitive Government: Can a Public Value Perspective Provide the Way Forward? European Foundation for Management Development conference, 14-16 June 2006, Aix-en-Provence, France.
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O’Flynn, J. (2005) A Public Value Framework for Contractual Governance, PUBLIC, Issue 07, ESADE Institute of Public Management, Barcelona, December (invited contribution).
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Sammartino, A., O’Flynn, J. and Nicholas, S. (2003) The Employer Perspective of
Indigenous (Un)Employment, Economic Papers, 22 (4), pp. 45-60.
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Walsh, J. and O’Flynn, J. (2000) Managing Through Contracts: The Employment Effects of Compulsory Competitive Tendering in Australian Local Government, Industrial Relations Journal, 31 (5), pp. 454-469.
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Teaching

Government, Markets and Global Change (CRWF8000)
Case Studies in Public Sector Management (POGO 8055)
Contributor to Delivering Public Value (Australia and New Zealand School of Government)

Contact Details

Telephone:	61 2 6125 9825
Fax:	61 2 6125 0767
Email:	janine.oflynn@anu.edu.au
Mailing address:	Crawford School of Economics and Government , The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

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