Ian R Hodgkinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian R Hodgkinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian R |
| FAMILY NAME | Hodgkinson |
| SIGNATURE | HODGKINSON I R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5790-2852 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Impacts, Dynamics, and Effects of a Spatially Separated Service for Service Providers and Users Experiencing Vulnerability
Consumers experiencing vulnerability are prevalent in healthcare contexts across the globe, so it is surprising that such groups do not typically feature in the extant literature on service separation. Telehealth as a spatially separated service offering requires a combined perspective that captures the experiences of both users’ experiencing vulnerability and providers’ delivering the separated service. The inclusion of these actor perspectives …
Improvisation in Public Administration
Though public management in developing countries is oriented toward an action imperative, dealing with situations in real-time, the improvisation phenomenon has received little scholarly attention in public administration and management. This knowledge gap leads to the study’s research question: how do different implementation environments influence improvisation in public service organizations? Addressing this research question, the article draw…
The Socio‐Structural Drivers of Strategic Improvisation in Emergency Services
Strategic improvisation often occurs in fast‐paced decision‐making environments. Yet, improvisation has received little scholarly attention in public administration and management. This knowledge gap leads to the study's research question: what drives strategic improvisation in the emergency services of a developing country? To answer this research question, the article examines the socio‐structural pathways to strategic improvisation by drawing …
Resource dependence and the survival of government-created social enterprises
Local governments increasingly use social enterprises for public service delivery, but the sustainability of this approach is likely to be influenced by a range of resource dependencies. Drawing on the Resource Dependence Theory, we investigate the resources social enterprises must acquire and maintain for their survival among nearly 100 social enterprises created by English local governments to provide leisure services. Using survival analysis, …
Examining Resilience Across a Service Ecosystem under Crisis
In the face of rising infection rates and increased healthcare demand, COVID-19 overwhelmed healthcare systems. System-wide change was subsequently necessary to absorb and adapt to the crisis through a new digital service‒telemedicine. The study unpacks how precursor resilience was actuated across the service ecosystem. Drawing on qualitative data from multiple healthcare actors, the study adopts oscillating foci to examine ecosystem resiliency a…
The impact of service separation on value
Digital innovations are changing how public organizations deliver services through the creation of service separation. Service separation refers to the decoupling of service production and consumption in digital platforms, which affects both users and providers alike. Since the global pandemic, service separation has become established in many healthcare settings, though little is known about how it has been experienced by service actors in speci…
Service outsourcing, pricing, and the engagement of citizen groups
To shed new light on the contested impact of service outsourcing, the study examines whether service outsourcing is associated with higher cost of entry and if higher pricing impacts service engagement among citizen groups. To this end, the study draws on secondary objective data to capture different ownership types in local authorities community sport provision (public, non-profit, private), the cost of access (£) to use community sport faciliti…
Telemedicine co‐design and value co‐creation in public health care
COVID‐19 has presented significant challenges for public healthcare systems across the globe. The critical challenge for public healthcare organisations is to provide effective health care to patients, while simultaneously keeping frontline staff safe. Telemedicine has emerged as a prominent service intervention to this end. Telemedicine integrates technologies into medical practices to alleviate the need for face‐to‐face interactions through vid…
Public Sector ‘Modernisation’
Can public sector reform change service performance for the better? This is a hotly contested debate that carries significant theoretical and practical importance. In England, as in many countries, modernisation was at the heart of local government reform and represented an interpretation of New Public Management into a policy framework. This paper examines the role of the modernisation change agenda in England and what this has subsequently mean…
In pursuit of a ‘whole-brain’ approach to undergraduate teaching
The question of ‘how we learn’ continues to direct scholarly debate, yet undergraduate teaching is typically designed to homogenise the learning environment. This is despite heterogeneous learning outcomes ensuing for students, owing to their different learning styles. Accordingly, we examine the relationship between teaching methodologies and learning styles. Drawing on the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument and the theory of ‘whole-brain’ teac…
Institutional, Ideological and Political Influences on Local Government Contracting
Theories of contracting out offer contrasting perspectives on the noneconomic determinants of local government contracting. Some suggest that ideological motives predominate, with contracting decisions reflecting the ideology of ruling parties. Others emphasize political motives, with governments responding to local preferences. In this article, we draw on ideas about isomorphic pressures within organizational fields to examine whether institutio…
Strategy Content and Public Service Provider Performance in the Uk
This article presents an alternative empirical test of the relationship between strategy content and service provider performance. Strategy content, conceptualized as comprising strategic stance and strategic action, has been shown to be a means to improve public service performance. We contribute to this growing body of research by deriving an alternative typology of strategy to better reflect competitive conditions in the public sector, which e…
Are generic strategies ‘fit for purpose’ in a public service context
The environment in which public sector organisations operate is becoming ever more volatile, with such organisations increasingly facing the dual pressures of growing customer expectations coupled with significant budget reductions. This study presents an exploratory research model to uncover significant relationships between generic strategies and the business and social performance of public leisure providers, in an attempt to ascertain if gene…
Institutional, Ideological and Political Influences on Local Government Contracting
Theories of contracting out offer contrasting perspectives on the noneconomic determinants of local government contracting. Some suggest that ideological motives predominate, with contracting decisions reflecting the ideology of ruling parties. Others emphasize political motives, with governments responding to local preferences. In this article, we draw on ideas about isomorphic pressures within organizational fields to examine whether institutio…
Strategy Content and Public Service Provider Performance in the Uk
This article presents an alternative empirical test of the relationship between strategy content and service provider performance. Strategy content, conceptualized as comprising strategic stance and strategic action, has been shown to be a means to improve public service performance. We contribute to this growing body of research by deriving an alternative typology of strategy to better reflect competitive conditions in the public sector, which e…
Service outsourcing, pricing, and the engagement of citizen groups
To shed new light on the contested impact of service outsourcing, the study examines whether service outsourcing is associated with higher cost of entry and if higher pricing impacts service engagement among citizen groups. To this end, the study draws on secondary objective data to capture different ownership types in local authorities community sport provision (public, non-profit, private), the cost of access (£) to use community sport faciliti…
Telemedicine co‐design and value co‐creation in public health care
COVID‐19 has presented significant challenges for public healthcare systems across the globe. The critical challenge for public healthcare organisations is to provide effective health care to patients, while simultaneously keeping frontline staff safe. Telemedicine has emerged as a prominent service intervention to this end. Telemedicine integrates technologies into medical practices to alleviate the need for face‐to‐face interactions through vid…
Are generic strategies ‘fit for purpose’ in a public service context
The environment in which public sector organisations operate is becoming ever more volatile, with such organisations increasingly facing the dual pressures of growing customer expectations coupled with significant budget reductions. This study presents an exploratory research model to uncover significant relationships between generic strategies and the business and social performance of public leisure providers, in an attempt to ascertain if gene…
Are generic strategies ‘fit for purpose’ in a public service context
The environment in which public sector organisations operate is becoming ever more volatile, with such organisations increasingly facing the dual pressures of growing customer expectations coupled with significant budget reductions. This study presents an exploratory research model to uncover significant relationships between generic strategies and the business and social performance of public leisure providers, in an attempt to ascertain if gene…
Strategy Content and Public Service Provider Performance in the Uk
This article presents an alternative empirical test of the relationship between strategy content and service provider performance. Strategy content, conceptualized as comprising strategic stance and strategic action, has been shown to be a means to improve public service performance. We contribute to this growing body of research by deriving an alternative typology of strategy to better reflect competitive conditions in the public sector, which e…
Institutional, Ideological and Political Influences on Local Government Contracting
Theories of contracting out offer contrasting perspectives on the noneconomic determinants of local government contracting. Some suggest that ideological motives predominate, with contracting decisions reflecting the ideology of ruling parties. Others emphasize political motives, with governments responding to local preferences. In this article, we draw on ideas about isomorphic pressures within organizational fields to examine whether institutio…
In pursuit of a ‘whole-brain’ approach to undergraduate teaching
The question of ‘how we learn’ continues to direct scholarly debate, yet undergraduate teaching is typically designed to homogenise the learning environment. This is despite heterogeneous learning outcomes ensuing for students, owing to their different learning styles. Accordingly, we examine the relationship between teaching methodologies and learning styles. Drawing on the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument and the theory of ‘whole-brain’ teac…
Public Sector ‘Modernisation’
Can public sector reform change service performance for the better? This is a hotly contested debate that carries significant theoretical and practical importance. In England, as in many countries, modernisation was at the heart of local government reform and represented an interpretation of New Public Management into a policy framework. This paper examines the role of the modernisation change agenda in England and what this has subsequently mean…
Telemedicine co‐design and value co‐creation in public health care
COVID‐19 has presented significant challenges for public healthcare systems across the globe. The critical challenge for public healthcare organisations is to provide effective health care to patients, while simultaneously keeping frontline staff safe. Telemedicine has emerged as a prominent service intervention to this end. Telemedicine integrates technologies into medical practices to alleviate the need for face‐to‐face interactions through vid…
Service outsourcing, pricing, and the engagement of citizen groups
To shed new light on the contested impact of service outsourcing, the study examines whether service outsourcing is associated with higher cost of entry and if higher pricing impacts service engagement among citizen groups. To this end, the study draws on secondary objective data to capture different ownership types in local authorities community sport provision (public, non-profit, private), the cost of access (£) to use community sport faciliti…
Examining Resilience Across a Service Ecosystem under Crisis
In the face of rising infection rates and increased healthcare demand, COVID-19 overwhelmed healthcare systems. System-wide change was subsequently necessary to absorb and adapt to the crisis through a new digital service‒telemedicine. The study unpacks how precursor resilience was actuated across the service ecosystem. Drawing on qualitative data from multiple healthcare actors, the study adopts oscillating foci to examine ecosystem resiliency a…
The impact of service separation on value
Digital innovations are changing how public organizations deliver services through the creation of service separation. Service separation refers to the decoupling of service production and consumption in digital platforms, which affects both users and providers alike. Since the global pandemic, service separation has become established in many healthcare settings, though little is known about how it has been experienced by service actors in speci…
Resource dependence and the survival of government-created social enterprises
Local governments increasingly use social enterprises for public service delivery, but the sustainability of this approach is likely to be influenced by a range of resource dependencies. Drawing on the Resource Dependence Theory, we investigate the resources social enterprises must acquire and maintain for their survival among nearly 100 social enterprises created by English local governments to provide leisure services. Using survival analysis, …
Improvisation in Public Administration
Though public management in developing countries is oriented toward an action imperative, dealing with situations in real-time, the improvisation phenomenon has received little scholarly attention in public administration and management. This knowledge gap leads to the study’s research question: how do different implementation environments influence improvisation in public service organizations? Addressing this research question, the article draw…
The Socio‐Structural Drivers of Strategic Improvisation in Emergency Services
Strategic improvisation often occurs in fast‐paced decision‐making environments. Yet, improvisation has received little scholarly attention in public administration and management. This knowledge gap leads to the study's research question: what drives strategic improvisation in the emergency services of a developing country? To answer this research question, the article examines the socio‐structural pathways to strategic improvisation by drawing …
The Impacts, Dynamics, and Effects of a Spatially Separated Service for Service Providers and Users Experiencing Vulnerability
Consumers experiencing vulnerability are prevalent in healthcare contexts across the globe, so it is surprising that such groups do not typically feature in the extant literature on service separation. Telehealth as a spatially separated service offering requires a combined perspective that captures the experiences of both users’ experiencing vulnerability and providers’ delivering the separated service. The inclusion of these actor perspectives …
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