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Portrait of Kuno Schedler
Distinguished Fellow · Public Administration

Prof Dr Kuno Schedler

Kuno Schedler is Professor of Public Management at the University of St.Gallen (HSG) and has been Director of its Institute for Systemic Management and Public Governance (IMP-HSG) since 1998.

His research covers public management and governance, multirational management, institutional organisation theory and service models in the public sector, as well as public management reform, smart government, performance measurement and public sector financial management. He was Vice President for Research and Faculty at the University of St.Gallen from 2015 to 2019 and Dean of its School of Management from 2013 to 2014. He has been a visiting scholar at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, a research fellow at the National Center for Digital Government at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a visiting professor at the University of Potsdam, where he has been an Associated Fellow of the Potsdam Center for Policy and Management since 2012. He was a founding member and later President of the International Public Management Network and co-edited the International Public Management Journal.

He received his doctorate from the University of St.Gallen.

Selected publications

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Public Administration
Public Administration
Rationality patterns in export promotion organizationswith Aline Tanno, Andreas Klasen, Simona Casasola and Vera Hauser · Global Policy 17(2), 259–273 · 2026
Public Administration
Service Models in the Public Sectorwith Ali Asker Guenduez · Yearbook of Swiss Administrative Sciences 15 · 2024
Public Finance
Business model innovation and the financial dimension of strategy in the public sectorIn C. Greve & T. Ysa (eds), Handbook on Strategic Public Management, Edward Elgar, 211–226 · 2023
Public Administration
Technological frames in public administration: what do public managers think of big data?with Ali A. Guenduez and Tobias Mettler · Government Information Quarterly 37(1), 101406 · 2020
Public Administration
How smart can government be? Exploring barriers to the adoption of smart governmentwith Ali Asker Guenduez and Ruth Frischknecht · Information Polity 24(1), 3–20 · 2019
Public Administration
Dealing with changing obstacles in trade promotionwith Andreas Klasen, Vera Hauser and Noah Stanton · lill Policy Brief PB25A · 2025
Public Administration
The six dimensions of organizational rationalitywith Aline Tanno, Franca Burkhardt, Olena Shevkova and Ruth Frischknecht · SSRN working paper · 2024