Areas of expertise

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

Profile

Janine O’Flynn is Director (Education) in the Crawford School of Economics and Government and her research interests are in public sector management, reform and policy. Janine leads the Crawford flagship course Government, Markets and Global Change and Case Studies in Public Sector Management.

In 2011, Janine was recognised with a national teaching award, the Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC). This followed her being named as a recipient of The Australian National University (ANU)'s highest award for teaching, the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2010 and the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009. She works with several PhD scholars examining issues of public sector reform. Janine is consulting editor for the Australian Journal of Public Administration and sits on the eeditorial board of the Journal of Management & Organization.  

Programs

Dr O’Flynn currently teaches in the following ANZSOG courses:

Core programs

• Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA)
  – Work-Based Project (WBP)

Recent publications 

Books

Book chapters

Journal articles (selected)

Conference and workshop papers

Books

• J O’Flynn & J Wanna 2008 (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.

Book chapters

• O'Flynn, J, Halligan, J & Buick, F (forthcoming), 'Experiments with joined-up, horizontal and whole-of-government in Anglophone countries', in A Massey (ed.), International handbook on civil services systems, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
• O’Flynn, J 2008, ‘Elusive appeal or aspirational ideal? The rhetoric and reality of the ‘collaborative turn’ in public policy’, in J O’Flynn & J Wanna (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.

Journal articles (selected)

• 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.
• O'Flynn, J, Buick, F, Blackman, D & Halligan, 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, Ainsworth, S & Knox, A 2010, ‘A blinding lack of progress: management rhetoric and affirmative action’, Gender, Work & Organization, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 654–678.
• O’Flynn, J, Blackman, D & 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.
• O’Flynn, J & Blackman, D 2009, ‘Experimenting with organisational design in Bhutan: tools for reform and the achievement of multi-level goals’, Public Administration and Development, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 133–144.
• O’Flynn, J 2009, ‘The cult of collaboration in public policy’, Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 112–116.
• 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 2008, ‘Australian Capital Territory political chronicles’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 657–662.
• O’Flynn, J 2008, ‘Australian Capital Territory political chronicles’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 336–341.
• 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 & Aulich, C 2007, ‘From public to private: the Australian experience of privatisation’, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, vol. 29, no. 2, pp.151–169.
• O’Flynn, J & Aulich, C 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.
• O’Flynn, J, Sammartino, A & Nicholas, S 2003, ‘The employer perspective of indigenous (un)employment’, Economic Papers, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 45–60.
• O’Flynn, J & Walsh, J 2000, ‘Managing through contracts: the employment effects of compulsory competitive tendering in Australian local government’, Industrial Relations Journal, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 454–469.

Conference and workshop papers

• O’Flynn, J, Blackman, D & Halligan, J 2011, 'Working across boundaries: value, innovation and partnership', paper presented at International Research Society for Public Management Conference, Dublin, April 11–13.
• O’Flynn, J, Blackman, D, Buick, F, Halligan, J & 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, April 7–10.
• O'Flynn, J, Halligan, J & Blackman, D 2010, 'Working across boundaries: barriers, enablers, tensions and puzzles', paper presented at International Research Society for Public Management Conference, Berne, April 7–10.
• O’Flynn, J 2009, ‘The public value debate: emerging ethical issues’, Public Leadership Workshop, November 26–27, The Australian National University, Canberra.
• O’Flynn, J & Alford, J 2008, 'Public value: a stocktake of a concept', paper presented at Twelfth Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management, Brisbane, March 26–28.
• O’Flynn, J & 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.
• O’Flynn, J 2006, 'Post-bureaucratic, post-competitive government: can a public value perspective provide the way forward?', European Foundation for Management Development Conference, Aix-en-Provence, June 14–16.