Tom Overmans
Biographic Data
| ID | 5916595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Overmans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Overmans |
| SIGNATURE | OVERMANS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8520-201X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Debiasing budget judgment
Purpose Public budgeting requires judgment under uncertainty, yet evidence on whether debiasing interventions improve such judgment remains limited. Although research has documented bias effects in public decision-making, much less is known about whether simple debiasing interventions work in budgeting contexts and whether their effects depend on the type of judgment and the way interventions are embedded in decision contexts. Design/methodology/…
Understanding Micro‐Level Budgeting Behavior
Decades of research emphasized collective behaviors in public budgeting, yet individual budget preferences remain underexplored. This paper argues that both well‐known and lesser‐known cognitive biases distort politicians' budget judgment, resulting in biased preferences. To test this, we conducted five preregistered experiments examining the impact of five biases—anchoring, herding, mental accounting, availability bias, and loss aversion—on budg…
Public value budgeting
Purpose The principles of public value management (PVM) have greatly inspired public management practitioners and scholars, but the application of these ideas to the everyday practice and research of government has proven to be more difficult. This article formulates propositions for how the principles of PVM could affect one of the core processes of government: budgeting. These propositions can inspire practitioners and be tested by future resea…
Innovative austerity management
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to uncover the right type of organizational slack for innovation. It examines how city managers conceive slack, and how they create slack to facilitate innovation while dealing with fiscal stress. Design/methodology/approach The study is built around a comparative case study approach to uncover contrasts, similarities and patterns of slack-building for innovation in austere times. It relies on the experiences …
Flexible framing
This article examines how local policy elites conceptualize and communicate potential innovations to overcome the fiscal crisis. Four austerity frames based on cultural theory are developed: an individualist, hierarchist, egalitarian and fatalist frame. Two expectations are tested by tracing frame usage in austerity speeches by the leadership in Birmingham, Cologne and Rotterdam. First, the modest contribution of the individualist frame in NPM‐sc…
Managing Austerity
This article attempts to clarify the relationships between the politico-administrative system and responses to austerity by comparing municipal austerity plans in the Netherlands and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Although austerity is a major topic in both states, the approaches differ. In our sample, Dutch municipalities have used the crisis as an opportunity to realize reforms, whereas NRW municipalities have regarded the challenge as a tempora…
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Managing Austerity
This article attempts to clarify the relationships between the politico-administrative system and responses to austerity by comparing municipal austerity plans in the Netherlands and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Although austerity is a major topic in both states, the approaches differ. In our sample, Dutch municipalities have used the crisis as an opportunity to realize reforms, whereas NRW municipalities have regarded the challenge as a tempora…
Innovative austerity management
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to uncover the right type of organizational slack for innovation. It examines how city managers conceive slack, and how they create slack to facilitate innovation while dealing with fiscal stress. Design/methodology/approach The study is built around a comparative case study approach to uncover contrasts, similarities and patterns of slack-building for innovation in austere times. It relies on the experiences …
Flexible framing
This article examines how local policy elites conceptualize and communicate potential innovations to overcome the fiscal crisis. Four austerity frames based on cultural theory are developed: an individualist, hierarchist, egalitarian and fatalist frame. Two expectations are tested by tracing frame usage in austerity speeches by the leadership in Birmingham, Cologne and Rotterdam. First, the modest contribution of the individualist frame in NPM‐sc…
Public value budgeting
Purpose The principles of public value management (PVM) have greatly inspired public management practitioners and scholars, but the application of these ideas to the everyday practice and research of government has proven to be more difficult. This article formulates propositions for how the principles of PVM could affect one of the core processes of government: budgeting. These propositions can inspire practitioners and be tested by future resea…
Understanding Micro‐Level Budgeting Behavior
Decades of research emphasized collective behaviors in public budgeting, yet individual budget preferences remain underexplored. This paper argues that both well‐known and lesser‐known cognitive biases distort politicians' budget judgment, resulting in biased preferences. To test this, we conducted five preregistered experiments examining the impact of five biases—anchoring, herding, mental accounting, availability bias, and loss aversion—on budg…
Debiasing budget judgment
Purpose Public budgeting requires judgment under uncertainty, yet evidence on whether debiasing interventions improve such judgment remains limited. Although research has documented bias effects in public decision-making, much less is known about whether simple debiasing interventions work in budgeting contexts and whether their effects depend on the type of judgment and the way interventions are embedded in decision contexts. Design/methodology/…
Economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Austerity (3 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (3 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)