Huanming Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3728774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Huanming Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Huanming |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalian University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5173-1514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Bureaucratic Paradox of Citizen Agency
Public service co‐production is often framed as a means of creating public value, yet its dynamics are complex when citizen‐led participation is catalyzed by strong public institutions. This mixed‐methods study examines government‐catalyzed, citizen‐centric co‐production in Shanghai, China, where the state provides institutional support, policy legitimacy, and infrastructure while citizens undertake much of the work of deliberation, coordination,…
Rethinking government transparency
Drawing on expectancy disconfirmation theory (EDT), this study utilizes a systematic review and meta-analytic approach to examine the effects of government transparency on citizen satisfaction. By synthesizing findings from 35 studies and 55 effect sizes, this article aims to provide a thorough assessment of the strength and direction of this relationship. Moreover, our study examined the ways in which these relationships are shaped by difference…
Unpacking digital co-production - A scenario-based framework for comparing digital public services
In the realm of public services, the integration of digital technologies and co-production—termed ‘digital co-production’—holds transformative potential. Yet, a comprehensive understanding of how such integration affects service outcomes remains elusive, presenting a critical knowledge gap with practical implications. Addressing this gap, our study systematically examines the complex interplay between digital technologies and co-production. Throu…
How does citizen-centric co-production lead to value co-creation? A perspective of interactive governance
This study contributes to co-production research by enhancing the less-focused citizen-centric perspective, traditionally overshadowed by a government-centric view that prioritizes tangible outcomes, while the mechanisms that lead to intangible results like value co-creation are less focused. Through a detailed analysis of Shanghai’s community service regeneration projects, this study elucidates the structured sequential mechanisms of citizen-cen…
Individual, organizational, and institutional accountability
This study reviews accountability’s nature, conceptualization, antecedents, and consequences. It shows that accountability studies in the public administration field are fragmented and incoherent. The results of different studies go in different directions partly because scholars study accountability on different levels: individual, organizational, and institutional/programme. It is suggested that accountability at the individual level, its antec…
Adding sectors or strengthening ties? Adaptive strategies for cross-sector collaboration in disaster governance
This article examines the role of cross-sectoral collaboration in disaster management, specifically in waterlogging mitigation in Tianjin and Chongqing, China. Utilizing complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory, content analysis, and social network analysis (SNA), it finds both cities display hybrid forms of hierarchical and network governance in their collaboration efforts. Tianjin's collaboration is primarily among public sectors, whereas Chongqin…
Localizing public service provision in megacities
Developing a suitability assessment model for Public Private Partnerships
Spatial heterogeneity is a fundamental aspect of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The appropriateness of PPPs applications varies across regions. While the assessment of suitability for PPPs is crucial, it has received limited scholarly attention. This study, using China as s representative case, developed a suitability assessment model and evaluated it across 287 prefecture-level cities in China. The results reveal considerable spatial variat…
Dynamics in network governance of infrastructure public-private partnerships
In public administration studies, public-private partnerships (PPPs) networks remain insufficient in terms of more advanced network measures and dynamic evolution. To address this issue, this study uses the infrastructure PPPs of four municipalities in China (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing) as examples, and builds collaborative networks to illustrate the dynamic evolutionary roles of participants. Depending on PPPs management policies o…
Investigating the financialization of water infrastructure in China
Insufficient funding for water infrastructure has become a notable challenge for China and other developing countries. In light of marketization and globalization, financialization has emerged as a potential avenue to address the financial difficulties. This study employs the PMC index model and cluster analysis method to quantitatively analyze the financialization of water infrastructure in China through a lens of public policy lens. The finding…
Public Private Partnership with Chinese Characteristics
The localization and generalization of the public–private partnership (PPP) is a controversial issue discussed in the research agenda of PPP. China has played a central role in global PPP development in recent years. This study reviews the policy and development of PPP in China through the lens of punctuated-equilibrium theory. A conceptual framework of China-type PPP, including projects, organizations, functions, policies, and governance, is the…
Exploring the Combinatorial Effects of Collaborative Factors Leading to Higher Degree of Co‐Production
This study investigates the collaborative factors conducive to co‐production in public services, utilizing Ansell and Gash's framework and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) across 18 cases from the Collaborative Governance Case Database (CGCD). It identifies incentive as a necessary condition for co‐production, revealing three sufficient pathways to co‐production: managed, led, and self‐organized co‐production. The findings advan…
Commercial investment in public–private partnerships
How to attract commercial investment to provide infrastructure and public service is an important issue for governments around the world. This paper investigated what government characteristics can attract commercial investment. Using China’s PPP cases, this study shows that local government’s fiscal stress, land resources, and wealth are important determinants in attracting commercial investment. The business environment of local government play…
Network governance and collaborative governance
Through a thematic analysis on major themes researched in network governance and collaborative governance, this paper identifies the entangled relationship between these two research streams. We note the common and distinct themes in these two research streams that reveal four entanglements in the research and practice of network governance and collaborative governance. We propose future research could focus more on the implementation and compara…
Evaluating the strictest water resources management policy in China based on the S-CAD method
The strictest water resources management (SWRM) policy is an important policy to promote the rational use of water resources and sustainable water development in China. An evaluation of the SWRM policy is conducive to the SWRM's optimization and water governance. The S-CAD (Subjectivity – Consistency, Adequacy, Dependency) method is used to assess the implementation effect and formulation of the SWRM policy. The results show that the SWRM policy …
A systematic literature review of open innovation in the public sector
Based on the PRISMA approach, this article presents a systematic review of how barriers and governance strategies are different between digital and non-digital open innovation (OI). The results show that relational barriers are more influential for non-digital OI, while capacity- and technical-related barriers are the main challenges for digital OI. Moreover, it finds that political commitment and employment of intermediaries are universal strate…
A quantitative evaluation of water resource management policies in China based on the PMC index model
Water policies play a critical role in good water governance and sustainable water development. The evaluation of water policies helps improve the quality of water policy systems and water governance. This study quantitatively evaluated water resource management policies through the policy modeling consistency (PMC) index model and a text-mining method based on national water resource management policy texts produced from 2011 to 2019. This study…
Adaptive water governance research in social sciences journals
Adaptive water governance plays an increasingly important role in sustainable urban development and water governance response to global climate change. To comprehensively understand the research situation and development trend of adaptive water management, this study conducts a systematic literature review of articles published in International Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) journals based on bibliometric analysis. The results show that ad…
Street-level collaborative governance for urban regeneration
Urban regeneration is one of the most important public administration issues facing modern cities. While abundant studies have focused on the state-led or market-based governance modes of large urban regeneration projects, relatively fewer studies investigate the collaborative governance mode, especially on the numerous street-level small-scale regeneration projects. Street-level small-scale regeneration projects directly touch on citizens’ life …
How business-related governance strategies impact paths towards the formation of global cities? An institutional embeddedness perspective
Public–Private Collaboration Led by Private Organizations in Combating Crises
Public–private collaborations have the potential to effectively respond to extreme events. However, traditional public–private collaborations that are usually led by governmental actors often encounter significant difficulties in a crisis. Based on a case study of a public–private collaboration dealing with COVID-19 in China, we explore how a private actor emerges as a leader to initiate and manage a public–private collaboration in the crisis, an…
Public–private partnership as a driver of sustainable development
A refined experimentalist governance approach to incremental policy change
How public policies change incrementally over time remains understudied. This paper contributes to the studies of incremental policy change by integrating the theories of policy layering and learning into a theoretical framework of experimental governance (EG). Using a mixed research method, we apply this framework to process-tracing the changing trajectory of China’s central government infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) policies fro…
Striving for global cities with governance approach in transitional China
How does public-private collaboration reinvent? A comparative analysis of urban bicycle-sharing policy diffusion in China
Public–private partnerships as a governance response to sustainable urbanization
Mix leading to success? Exploring the innovative development model in peri-urban China
A refined experimentalist governance approach to incremental policy change
How public policies change incrementally over time remains understudied. This paper contributes to the studies of incremental policy change by integrating the theories of policy layering and learning into a theoretical framework of experimental governance (EG). Using a mixed research method, we apply this framework to process-tracing the changing trajectory of China’s central government infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) policies fro…
Exploring the Combinatorial Effects of Collaborative Factors Leading to Higher Degree of Co‐Production
This study investigates the collaborative factors conducive to co‐production in public services, utilizing Ansell and Gash's framework and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) across 18 cases from the Collaborative Governance Case Database (CGCD). It identifies incentive as a necessary condition for co‐production, revealing three sufficient pathways to co‐production: managed, led, and self‐organized co‐production. The findings advan…
Ownership, corruption, and revenue regimes for infrastructure partnerships
Public–Private Collaboration Led by Private Organizations in Combating Crises
Public–private collaborations have the potential to effectively respond to extreme events. However, traditional public–private collaborations that are usually led by governmental actors often encounter significant difficulties in a crisis. Based on a case study of a public–private collaboration dealing with COVID-19 in China, we explore how a private actor emerges as a leader to initiate and manage a public–private collaboration in the crisis, an…
How does public-private collaboration reinvent? A comparative analysis of urban bicycle-sharing policy diffusion in China
Commercial investment in public–private partnerships
How to attract commercial investment to provide infrastructure and public service is an important issue for governments around the world. This paper investigated what government characteristics can attract commercial investment. Using China’s PPP cases, this study shows that local government’s fiscal stress, land resources, and wealth are important determinants in attracting commercial investment. The business environment of local government play…
Striving for global cities with governance approach in transitional China
Adding sectors or strengthening ties? Adaptive strategies for cross-sector collaboration in disaster governance
This article examines the role of cross-sectoral collaboration in disaster management, specifically in waterlogging mitigation in Tianjin and Chongqing, China. Utilizing complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory, content analysis, and social network analysis (SNA), it finds both cities display hybrid forms of hierarchical and network governance in their collaboration efforts. Tianjin's collaboration is primarily among public sectors, whereas Chongqin…
The effects of privatisation on the equity of public services
This article investigates the relationship between privatisation and equity, and considers the extent to which measures to reverse privatisation have improved citizens’ access to public services. The Coefficient of Variation (CV) method is used to measure equity, and the multiple regression method is adopted to test the relationship between privatisation and equity. The findings confirm that there is a negative relationship between market access …
Street-level collaborative governance for urban regeneration
Urban regeneration is one of the most important public administration issues facing modern cities. While abundant studies have focused on the state-led or market-based governance modes of large urban regeneration projects, relatively fewer studies investigate the collaborative governance mode, especially on the numerous street-level small-scale regeneration projects. Street-level small-scale regeneration projects directly touch on citizens’ life …
Public Owner With Business Delivery Mode in China
Since 2008, some of China's municipal governments have reversed the privatization of market‐led reform in the bus transport field. But this reversal is not a return to the direct public monopoly delivery model of the past. Instead the new structure is a hybrid of public control with business delivery. This mixed model attempts to balance government, market and social groups. This mode is a contracting network where government plays a lead role to…
Public–private partnership in Public Administration discipline
Public–private partnerships (PPPs) have become popular tools to deliver infrastructure and public services around the world. As an innovative public procurement approach, PPPs have drawn considerable attention from academic circles. In order to enhance our knowledge of PPPs, the authors conducted a systematic literature review of articles published in international journals of the Public Administration (PA) discipline. Four main topics in this di…
Mix leading to success? Exploring the innovative development model in peri-urban China
The effects of privatisation on the equity of public services
This article investigates the relationship between privatisation and equity, and considers the extent to which measures to reverse privatisation have improved citizens’ access to public services. The Coefficient of Variation (CV) method is used to measure equity, and the multiple regression method is adopted to test the relationship between privatisation and equity. The findings confirm that there is a negative relationship between market access …
Governing public–private partnerships
Governance plays a critical role in determining the success and failure of public–private partnerships (PPPs). We conducted a systematic review of case study literature on PPP governance and developed a governance framework consisting of 21 issues in four groups: institutional, organizational, contractual, and managerial. Then, we investigate the dynamics of governance issues, including the relative importance, interrelationships, and connections…
Ownership, corruption, and revenue regimes for infrastructure partnerships
Striving for global cities with governance approach in transitional China
How does public-private collaboration reinvent? A comparative analysis of urban bicycle-sharing policy diffusion in China
Public–private partnerships as a governance response to sustainable urbanization
Public–private partnership as a driver of sustainable development
A refined experimentalist governance approach to incremental policy change
How public policies change incrementally over time remains understudied. This paper contributes to the studies of incremental policy change by integrating the theories of policy layering and learning into a theoretical framework of experimental governance (EG). Using a mixed research method, we apply this framework to process-tracing the changing trajectory of China’s central government infrastructure public-private partnership (PPP) policies fro…
A systematic literature review of open innovation in the public sector
Based on the PRISMA approach, this article presents a systematic review of how barriers and governance strategies are different between digital and non-digital open innovation (OI). The results show that relational barriers are more influential for non-digital OI, while capacity- and technical-related barriers are the main challenges for digital OI. Moreover, it finds that political commitment and employment of intermediaries are universal strate…
A quantitative evaluation of water resource management policies in China based on the PMC index model
Water policies play a critical role in good water governance and sustainable water development. The evaluation of water policies helps improve the quality of water policy systems and water governance. This study quantitatively evaluated water resource management policies through the policy modeling consistency (PMC) index model and a text-mining method based on national water resource management policy texts produced from 2011 to 2019. This study…
Adaptive water governance research in social sciences journals
Adaptive water governance plays an increasingly important role in sustainable urban development and water governance response to global climate change. To comprehensively understand the research situation and development trend of adaptive water management, this study conducts a systematic literature review of articles published in International Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) journals based on bibliometric analysis. The results show that ad…
Street-level collaborative governance for urban regeneration
Urban regeneration is one of the most important public administration issues facing modern cities. While abundant studies have focused on the state-led or market-based governance modes of large urban regeneration projects, relatively fewer studies investigate the collaborative governance mode, especially on the numerous street-level small-scale regeneration projects. Street-level small-scale regeneration projects directly touch on citizens’ life …
How business-related governance strategies impact paths towards the formation of global cities? An institutional embeddedness perspective
Public–Private Collaboration Led by Private Organizations in Combating Crises
Public–private collaborations have the potential to effectively respond to extreme events. However, traditional public–private collaborations that are usually led by governmental actors often encounter significant difficulties in a crisis. Based on a case study of a public–private collaboration dealing with COVID-19 in China, we explore how a private actor emerges as a leader to initiate and manage a public–private collaboration in the crisis, an…
Network governance and collaborative governance
Through a thematic analysis on major themes researched in network governance and collaborative governance, this paper identifies the entangled relationship between these two research streams. We note the common and distinct themes in these two research streams that reveal four entanglements in the research and practice of network governance and collaborative governance. We propose future research could focus more on the implementation and compara…
Evaluating the strictest water resources management policy in China based on the S-CAD method
The strictest water resources management (SWRM) policy is an important policy to promote the rational use of water resources and sustainable water development in China. An evaluation of the SWRM policy is conducive to the SWRM's optimization and water governance. The S-CAD (Subjectivity – Consistency, Adequacy, Dependency) method is used to assess the implementation effect and formulation of the SWRM policy. The results show that the SWRM policy …
Developing a suitability assessment model for Public Private Partnerships
Spatial heterogeneity is a fundamental aspect of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The appropriateness of PPPs applications varies across regions. While the assessment of suitability for PPPs is crucial, it has received limited scholarly attention. This study, using China as s representative case, developed a suitability assessment model and evaluated it across 287 prefecture-level cities in China. The results reveal considerable spatial variat…
Dynamics in network governance of infrastructure public-private partnerships
In public administration studies, public-private partnerships (PPPs) networks remain insufficient in terms of more advanced network measures and dynamic evolution. To address this issue, this study uses the infrastructure PPPs of four municipalities in China (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing) as examples, and builds collaborative networks to illustrate the dynamic evolutionary roles of participants. Depending on PPPs management policies o…
Investigating the financialization of water infrastructure in China
Insufficient funding for water infrastructure has become a notable challenge for China and other developing countries. In light of marketization and globalization, financialization has emerged as a potential avenue to address the financial difficulties. This study employs the PMC index model and cluster analysis method to quantitatively analyze the financialization of water infrastructure in China through a lens of public policy lens. The finding…
Public Private Partnership with Chinese Characteristics
The localization and generalization of the public–private partnership (PPP) is a controversial issue discussed in the research agenda of PPP. China has played a central role in global PPP development in recent years. This study reviews the policy and development of PPP in China through the lens of punctuated-equilibrium theory. A conceptual framework of China-type PPP, including projects, organizations, functions, policies, and governance, is the…
Exploring the Combinatorial Effects of Collaborative Factors Leading to Higher Degree of Co‐Production
This study investigates the collaborative factors conducive to co‐production in public services, utilizing Ansell and Gash's framework and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) across 18 cases from the Collaborative Governance Case Database (CGCD). It identifies incentive as a necessary condition for co‐production, revealing three sufficient pathways to co‐production: managed, led, and self‐organized co‐production. The findings advan…
Commercial investment in public–private partnerships
How to attract commercial investment to provide infrastructure and public service is an important issue for governments around the world. This paper investigated what government characteristics can attract commercial investment. Using China’s PPP cases, this study shows that local government’s fiscal stress, land resources, and wealth are important determinants in attracting commercial investment. The business environment of local government play…
Business (28 works) · Political science (24 works) · Economics (18 works) · China (17 works) · Corporate governance (15 works) · Finance (15 works) · Public-Private Partnership Projects (14 works) · Public Administration (12 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (12 works) · Computer Science (8 works)