Professor George Boyne

Professor George Boyne
Professor George Boyne
Professor George Boyne

Principal & Vice-Chancellor

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boyne@abdn.ac.uk
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Principal's Office, University Office
Old Aberdeen Campus
Regent Walk
AB24 3FX

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Biography

Professor George Boyne became Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen on 1 August 2018.

Professor Boyne led the creation of the University’s Aberdeen 2040 strategy which was launched in February 2020 to mark the 525th anniversary of the foundation of Kings College in Old Aberdeen. Aberdeen 2040, which builds directly on the university’s foundational purpose to be open to all and dedicated to the pursuit of truth in the service of others, won the Higher Education Strategic Planners Association award for University strategy of the year in 2021.

Professor Boyne is Chair of the University Senate, a member of the University Court and a member of the Board of the University’s Development Trust. His external roles include Chair of Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), Convenor of Universities Scotland Funding Policy Group, member of the Board of Opportunity North East, and member of the Aberdeen City Deal Joint Committee.

Professor Boyne has published extensively on the performance of public sector organisations and has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2010.

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Research

Funding and Grants

 

Housing Grant Policies: An Evaluation (1988-89, £21,000 Welsh Office, with A.Millington).

Local Government in Wales: Its Role and Functions (1990-91, £15,500, Joseph Rowntree Foundation).

Local Government Reform in Scotland and Wales (1993-94, £45,000, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with Grant Jordan, University of Aberdeen).

Spatial Equity and Local Government Finance: Who Gets What Where? (1995-97, £26,500, Leverhulme Trust, with Martin Powell, University of Bath).

Best Value in Welsh Local Government (1998-2000, £153,333, Welsh Office, with Richard Walker, Cardiff University, and Jennifer Law, University of Glamorgan).

Devolution and Regulation: Political Control of Public Bodies in Scotland and Wales (1999-2000, £44,000, ESRC, with Arthur Midwinter, University of Strathclyde, and Richard Walker, Cardiff University).

Strategy and Performance in Local Government (2001-2004, £163,893, ESRC, with Richard Walker, Cardiff University, and Jennifer Law, University of Glamorgan).

Long Term Evaluation of the Impact of Best Value (2001-2005, £1.1 million, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, with Steve Martin and Richard Walker, Cardiff University).

AIM Public Services Research Fellowship on Organizational Turnaround (2003-4 ESRC, £127k.)

Evaluation of Local Public Service Agreements (2003-7, £1.2 million, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; with the Office of Public Management).

Designing Outcome Measures For The Second Generation of Local Public Service Agreements (2004-6, £97k, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, with J.Law, University of Glamorgan).

Leadership Change and Public Services: Reinvigorating Performance or Reinforcing Decline? (2006-2008, £253k, ESRC, with P. John, Manchester, and O. James, Exeter)

Local Authority Size and Performance (2006-7, £56k, Department for Communities and Local Government, with R. Andrews, Cardiff University).

How Public Management Matters: Strategy, Networking and Local Service Performance (2006-2010, £750k, ESRC, with R. Walker, Hong Kong University, K. Meier, Texas A&M University, and L. O’Toole, University of Georgia).

Local Authority Form and Function: An Evaluation of the Impact of Structural Change (2008-2013, £820k, Department for Communities and Local Government; with the Office of Public Management and Price Waterhouse Coopers).

Chief Executive Succession and the Performance of Central Government Agencies (2010-2014, £216k, ESRC, with Oliver James, Exeter, and Nico Petrovsky, Kentucky).

 

Publications

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  • Market Orientation and Public Service Performance: New Public Management Gone Mad?

    Walker, R. M., Brewer, G. A., Boyne, G. A., Avellaneda, C. N.
    Public Administration Review, vol. 71, no. 5, pp. 707-717
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Strategy implementation and public service performance

    Andrews, R., Boyne, G. A., Law, J., Walker, R. M.
    Administration and Society, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 643-671
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Dimensions of publicness and organizational performance: A review of the evidence

    Andrews, R., Boyne, G. A., Walker, R. M.
    Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, vol. 21, no. Suppl. 3, pp. i301-i319
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Environmental and organizational determinants of external networking

    Andrews, R., Boyne, G. A., Meier, K. J., O'Toole, L. J., Walker, R. M.
    American Review of Public Administration, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 355-374
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Top management turnover and organizational performance: A test of a contingency model

    Boyne, G. A., James, O., John, P., Petrovsky, N.
    Public Administration Review, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 572-581
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The impact of management on administrative and survey measures of organizational performance

    Andrews, R., Boyne, G., Walker, R.
    Public Management Review, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 227-255
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Strategic management and public service performance

    Andrews, R., Boyne, G. A., Law, J., Walker, R. M.
    Palgrave Macmillan. 212 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Evidence-based modelling of strategic fit: An introduction to RCaRBS

    Beynon, M. J., Andrews, R., Boyne, G. A.
    European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 207, no. 2, pp. 886-896
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Strategic management and public service performance: The way ahead

    Boyne, G. A., Walker, R. M.
    Public Administration Review, vol. 70, no. SUPPL. 1, pp. 185-192
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Conclusion: Enriching the field

    Boyne, G. A., Brewer, G. A., Walker, R. M.
    Public Management and Performance: Research Directions. Walker, R. M., Boyne, G. A., Brewer, G. A. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 268-281, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Introduction: Public Management and Performance: Research Directions

    Walker, R. M., Boyne, G. A., Brewer, G. A.
    Public Management and Performance: Research Directions. Walker, R. M., Boyne, G. A., Brewer, G. A. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-33, 33 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Performance management: Does it work?

    Boyne, G. A.
    Public Management and Performance: Research Directions. Walker, R. M., Boyne, G. A., Brewer, G. A. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 207-226, 20 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Public management and performance: Research directions

    Walker, R. M., Boyne, G. A., Brewer, G. A.
    Cambridge University Press. 288 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • What if Public Management Reform Actually Works?

    Boyne, G., James, O., John, P., Petrovsky, N.
    Paradoxes of Modernization: Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reform. Oxford University Press
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Wakeup call: Strategic management, network alarms, and performance

    Walker, R. M., Andrews, R., Boyne, G. A., Meier, K. J., O'Toole, L. J.
    Public Administration Review, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 731-741
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Does public service performance affect top management turnover?

    Boyne, G. A., James, O., John, P., Petrovsky, N.
    Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, vol. 20, no. SUPPL. 2
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Incentives: New research on an old problem

    Boyne, G., Hood, C.
    Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, vol. 20, no. SUPPL. 2
    Contributions to Journals: Review articles
  • Capacity, leadership, and organizational performance: Testing the black box model of public management

    Andrews, R., Boyne, G. A.
    Public Administration Review, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 443-454
    Contributions to Journals: Review articles
  • Debate better public services: The moral purpose of public management research?

    Andrews, R., Boyne, G.
    Public Management Review, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 307-316
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Alignment and results: Testing the interaction effects of strategy, structure, and environment from miles and snow

    Meier, K. J., O'Toole, L. J., Boyne, G. A., Walker, R. M., Andrews, R.
    Administration and Society, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 160-192
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Assessing organizational performance: Exploring differences between internal and external measures

    Andrews, R., Boyne, G. A., Moon, M. J., Walker, R. M.
    International Public Management Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 105-129
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Does political change affect senior management turnover? An empirical analysis of top-tier local authorities in England

    Boyne, G. A., James, O., John, P., Petrovsky, N.
    Public Administration, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 136-153
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • How far has market orientation penetrated public organizations?: An empirical test on customer satisfaction

    Walker, R. M., Brewer, G. A., Boyne, G. A.
    Reasserting the Public in Public Services: New Public Management Reforms. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 63-78, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Change at the top: Connecting political and managerial transitions with performance

    Boyne, G., James, O., John, P., Petrovsky, N.
    Connecting Knowledge and Performance in Public Services: From Knowing to Doing. Cambridge University Press, pp. 128-144, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Strategy, structure and process in the public sector: A test of the miles and snow model

    Andrews, R., Boyne, G. A., Law, J., Walker, R. M.
    Public Administration, vol. 87, no. 4, pp. 732-749
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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