Petra van den Bekerom
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. P.E.A. van den Bekerom
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9500
- p.e.a.van.den.bekerom@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0299-5657
Petra van den Bekerom is an Assistant Professor in Public Management at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University. Her research interests include the external management of public organizations, public sector performance, and citizens’ performance perceptions of public organisations. She is particularly interested in the question to what extent public management can contribute to public service performance.
Petra van den Bekerom is an Assistant Professor in Public Management at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University. Her research interests include the external management of public organizations, public sector performance, and citizens’ performance perceptions of public organizations. She is particularly interested in the management of the external environment of public organizations and its relationship with public service performance. In today’s dynamic world, public managers are vital for the performance of public organizations. By shielding the organization from environmental changes, public managers ensure that the organization operates in an effective, efficient, and reliable manner. Most of her empirical work focuses on the context of education.
Van den Bekerom received her PhD in Public Administration from Leiden University in 2016. In her dissertation, she examined to what extent primary school principals’ networking activities mitigate the negative effects of changes in the external environment (such as budget cuts and changes in client characteristics) on school performance. To answer this question, she conducted a large-scale survey and combined these data with independently measured, longitudinal performance data. The results show that different dimensions of networking that are aimed at attaining a controllable flow of resources (such as networking with government agencies and co-producers) mitigates the negative effect of environmental turbulence. During her PhD research whe was a visiting scholar at the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University (with prof. Kenneth Meier).
Currently, Petra teaches the courses Introduction to Social Sciences in the Bachelor, and Performance Management in the Master ‘Management of the Public Sector’. Together with Joris van der Voet, she has developed a Small Private Online Course (SPOC) on Research in Public Administration.
Assistant professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Instituut Bestuurskunde
- Staalduinen D.J. van, Bekerom P.E.A. van den, Groeneveld S.M., Stiggelbout A.M. & Van den Akker-van Marle M.E. (2023), Relational coordination in value-based health care, Health Care Management Review 48(4): 334-341.
- Staalduinen D.J. van, Bekerom P.E.A. van den, Groeneveld S.M., Franx A., Stiggelbout A.M. & Akker-van Marle M.E van den (2023), Differing professional perspectives on the interprofessional collaboration in IPUs: a mixed-methods Study, International Journal of Integrated Care 23(3): 1-12.
- Staalduinen D.J. van, Bekerom P.E.A. van den, Groeneveld S.M., Kidanemariam M., Stiggelbout A.M. & Akker-van Marle M.E. van den (2022), The implementation of value-based healthcare: a scoping review, BMC Health Services Research 22: 270.
- Bekerom P. van den & Voet J. van der (2021), Disentangling the perceived performance effects of publicness and bureaucratic structure: A survey-experiment, Journal of Behavioral Public Administration 4(2): 16.
- Bekerom P. van den, Voet J. van der & Christensen J. (2020), Are Citizens More Negative About Failing Service Delivery by Public Than Private Organizations? Evidence From a Large-Scale Survey Experiment, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory : 1–22.
- Doornkamp L., Bekerom P. van den & Groeneveld S. (2019), The individual level effect of symbolic representation: An experimental study on teacher-student gender congruence and students’ perceived abilities in math, Journal of Behavioral Public Administration 2(2): 1-11.
- Bekerom P. van den, Voet J. van der & Christensen J. (2019), Prestatiepercepties van burgers over publieke en private dienstverlening. Den Haag: Universiteit Leiden.
- Bekerom P.E.A. van den, Schmidt J.E.T. & Broekema W.G. (2018), Dynamiek en crisis. In: Noort W. van, Groeneveld S., Hoek M. van der, Schalk J. & Voet J. van der (Eds.), Publiek Management. Bussum: Uitgeverij Coutinho. 131-146.
- Schalk J., Bekerom P. van den & Heijden M. van der (2018), Netwerkmanagement. In: Noort W. van, Groeneveld S., Hoek M. van der, Schalk J. & Voet J. van der (Eds.), Publiek management. Bussum: Uitgeverij Coutinho. 101-115.
- Hoek M. van der & Bekerom P. van den (2018), Prestatiemanagement. In: Noort W. van, Groeneveld S., Hoek M. van der, Schalk J. & Voet J. van der (Eds.), Publiek management. Bussum: Uitgeverij Coutinho. 227-242.
- Christensen J., Bekerom P.E.A. van den & Voet J. van der (2017), Representative Bureaucracy and Specialist Knowledge in the European Commission, Public Administration 95(2): 450–467.
- Bekerom P.E.A. van den, Schalk J. & Torenvlied R. (2017), Transforming input into output: how downward networking mediates the effect of external networking on organizational performance, Public Performance and Management Review 40(4): 625-651.
- Bekerom P.E.A. van den (8 November 2016), Networking and performance in public organizations : a study of primary schools in the Netherlands (Dissertatie. Institute of Public Administration, Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): René Torenvlied, Agnes Akkerman & Vincent Buskens.
- Bekerom P. van den, Torenvlied R. & Akkerman A. (2016), Constrained by Red Tape: How Managerial Networking Moderates the Effects of Red Tape on Public Service Performance, American Review of Public Administration 47(3): 300-322.
- Bekerom P. van den, Torenvlied R. & Akkerman A. (2015), Managing All Quarters of the Compass? How Internally Oriented Managerial Networking Moderates the Impact of Environmental Turbulence on Organizational Performance, American Review of Public Administration 46(6): 639 - 659.
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