IRSPM 2016 will feature 50 panels as listed below (please click the panel hyperlinks for further details):

A. New Researchers

• A101-New Researchers Panel
• B. Public Servants: Motivation & Leadership
• B101-Collaborative Orchestration versus the Elusive Nature of Leadership
• B102-Workplaces and Work Practices
• B103-Public Service Performance in a Complex Environment
• B104-Leadership
• B105-Trust-based Management in the Public Sector
• B106-Public Service Motivation
• B107-The Behaviors and Motivation of Chinese Public Workforce in the Context of Deepening Reforms

C. Global & Local Governance

• C101-Innovation in Local Government: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Structural Contingency Frameworks
• C102-Governance and Management of Government-Owned Enterprises, Corporate Forms and Agencies on Local, National and Regional Level
• C103-Urban Governance: Local Leadership In City Regions
• C104-Comparative Public Policy and Administration: An Asian Perspective in a Globalized and Collaborative World
• C105-Special Interest Group In Local Governance
• C106-Open Governance - Global and Local Perspectives
• C107-The Practice of Collaborative Governance in Asia
• C108-Digital Governance Innovations: Open Data, Big Data, and Smart Cities in Asia
• C109-Dynamics of Policy Innovation in China
• C110-City Governance Performance Improvement and Evaluation in the Context of Globalization
• C111-Transparency and Open Government

D. Inter-sectoral & Inter-governmental Dynamics

• D101-The Boundary Challenge: How Can We Understand the Practice of Working Across Boundaries if We Can't Do It Ourselves?
• D102-Working with the Private Sector: Externalisation and Public Procurement
• D103-Public-Private Partnerships: Global Experiences and Collaborative Practices
• D104-Public, Private or Other: Public Infrastructure Asset Management
• D105-Explaining Collaborative Service, Network Structure, and Clients' Outcomes of Public Services Providers
• D106-Central-Local Dynamics in Africa and Asia Pacific: What Are The Way Forwards?
• D107-Context, Behaviour and Evolution: New Perspectives on Public and Non-Profit Governance
• D108-Fostering Government-Third Sector Collaboration in Public Service Delivery: Experiences in Greater China
• D109-Civic Voice and Managerialistic Public Sectors - A New Global Tension Field?
• D110-Environmental Governance in China Reconsidered: Regulatory Reform, Stakeholder Interactions, and Implementation Challenges

E. Research & Knowledge Utilization

• E101-Special Interest Group: Connecting Public Management Researchers and Practitioners for Improved Outcomes
• E102-Managers and Administrators in Public Services: What Do They Do and What Do They Contribute?
• E103-Linking Confucian Value and Public Entrepreneurship: An Interdisciplinary Approach
• E104-Negotiating the Overlap: Political and Managerial Roles in Contemporary Public Sector Organisations
• E105-Behavioral and Experimental Public Administration: Probing the Microfoundations of Theory and Practice
• E106-Managing Intellectual Capital for a New Deal in the Public Sector
• E107-Creating Sustainable Public Services and Public Service Organisations: New Directions for Theory and Practice
• E108-The Role of Public Administration in Transdisciplinary Research, Theory and Practice
• E109-Expertise and Evidence in Public Policy
• E110-Experiments, Replication and Knowledge in Public Management Research

F. Sectoral Challenges in Public Management

• F101-(Primary) Health Care Reforms - Public Policy, Management and Accountability
• F102-From SARS and Ebola to MERS: Multi-level Management of Infectious Disease Epidemics in a Globalized World
• F103-Fusion Education: East Meets West-Homogeneous or Heterogeneous Strategies to Meet Contemporary Challenges in Global Education
• F104-Panel on Teaching and Education in Public Management
• F105-Emergency Services Management: The Case for Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide
• F106-Healthcare Governance and Performance Management - Comparative Perspectives
• F107-Wicked Problems in Public Policy - Theory and Practice
• F108-Healthcare Management (promoted by the SIG-HCM)
• G. Resources, Accountability, Technology and Financial Management
• G101- Accounting and Accountability SIG Panel: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Accounting and Performance Measurement in the Globalized Post-NPM World
• G102-Policy Issues in Public Budgeting and Financial (Fiscal) Management: Managing Public Resources under Fiscal Distress
• G103-Innovative Financial Instruments Reinventing the Public Sector: Strategic Trends and Development in Government
• G104-Public Management in Times of Austerity

H. PMRA

• H101-PMRA-Sponsored Panel: Management and Organizational Performance

I. Open

• I101-Open Panel