Confronting the big challenges of our time: making a difference during and after COVID-19

Janine O’Flynn*

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Abstract

This article explores key challenges emanating from COVID-19 and how public management and administration research can contribute to addressing them. To do this I discuss the ‘big questions’ debate and then sketch two big thematic challenges. In articulating these, I point to interconnections across various levels of analysis and argue we need to work across a range of boundaries and get more comfortable with complexity. My key argument being that both during and in the aftermath of a catastrophic global pandemic, it is at the intersections, not in silos, that we are likely to move forward intellectually and practically.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)961-980
Number of pages20
JournalPublic Management Review
Volume23
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes

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