One year in the game … and Welcome! to the new co-editor

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https://doi.org/10.60733/PMGR.2025.01

Keywords:

Welcome, public management, public governance, new developments, interview, from the classroom

Abstract

In this Editorial, Jurgen Willems welcomes Lisa Hohensinn as the new co-editor for Public Management and Governance Review (PMGR). Together they discuss the first reactions since the launch of the journal, future plans, and ambitions. They also reflect on intriguing topics that are currently or will increasingly be on the minds of practitioners and researchers in the field of public management and governance.

Author Biographies

Lisa Hohensinn, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Lisa Hohensinn is associate professor in the Institute for Public Management and Governance, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. She received her habilitation degree in business administration from WU Vienna and her doctoral degree in business administration from Johannes Kepler University Linz. She has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, as well as a visiting scholar at Suffolk University Boston and at the University of Mannheim. Her research interests include digital government, government openness and transparency, public trust in the political-administrative system, and comparative public management. Lisa Hohensinn is co-editor of Public Management and Governance Review.

Jurgen Willems, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Jurgen Willems is professor for Public Management & Governance at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. He is also the Academic Director of two Executive MBA programs, focused on Life Sciences and Health Care Management at the WU Executive Academy. His teaching covers various management topics, including Organizational Behavior, Management & Digital Transformation, and Public and Nonprofit Governance. Jurgen Willems has been a visiting scholar at the University of Southern Denmark, the American University in Washington, l’Université de La Réunion, the University of Missouri, and the University of Texas at Austin. His research covers a variety of topics on citizen-state and citizen-society interactions.

References

C. McMullin, “The case against co-production as a silver bullet: Why and when citizens should not be involved in public service delivery,” Public Management and Governance Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 2024, doi: 10.60733/PMGR.2024.04.

L. Hohensinn, “Vertrauenswürdige öffentliche Informationen aus Sicht der Bürger:innen,” Public Management and Governance Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 2024, doi: 10.60733/PMGR.2024.06.

L. Hohensinn and J. Willems, “Public sector challenges in different administrative regimes: Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and New Zealand,” Public Management and Governance Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 2024, doi: 10.60733/PMGR.2024.03.

J. Willems, “Practitioners and researchers as alienated lovers in management and governance: A new journal to the rescue!,” Public Management and Governance Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 2024, doi: 10.60733/PMGR.2024.01.

The journal’s logo is based on a painting by Lisa Sauberer. Lisa’s original painting is striking, bold, ebullient, and inspiring. Not coincidentally, these are also the elements that describe the ambitions of this journal.

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Published

2025-07-07

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2025)

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Editorial

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