Public Management and Policy Transfer in Southeast Asia. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001. eScholarID:189356
Richard Common, Norman Flynn, Elizabeth Mellon. Managing Public Services. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann, 1992. eScholarID:189358
Book contribution
"Leadership in the Sultanate of Oman." In Leadership Development in the Middle East, ed. B. Metcalfe and F. Mimouni, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011. eScholarID:133048
Richard Common and Beatriz Acevedo. "Governance, Networks and Policy Change." In The New Public Governance, ed. Stephen Osborne, 394-412. London: Routledge, 2009. eScholarID:75648
Common, Richard. "Beyond the Horizon: Policy Learning and Development." In International development governance, CRC Press, 2006. eScholarID:3g28
Journal article
Richard Common. "From London to Beijing: Training and Development as an Agent of Policy Learning in Public Management." International Journal of Public Administration 35, no. 10(2012) : 677-683. eScholarID:168003 | DOI:10.1080/01900692.2012.688086
Richard Common. "Barriers to Developing 'Leadership' in the Sultanate of Oman." International Journal of Leadership Studies 6, no. 2(2011) : 13. eScholarID:125787
Richard Common. "International Trends in HRM in the Public Sector: Reform Attempts in the Republic of Georgia." International Journal of Public Sector Management 24, no. 5(2011) : 13. eScholarID:125791 | DOI:10.1108/09513551111147150
John Dixon, Richard Common. "Symposium Edition: Public Sector Reform in Central Asia." International Journal of Public Administration 34, no. 9(2011) : 2. eScholarID:136620 | DOI:10.1080/01900692.2011.586883
Common, Richard. "Administrative change in the Gulf: modernization in Bahrain and Oman." International Review of Administrative Sciences 74, no. 2(2008) : 177-193. eScholarID:1g273 | DOI:10.1177/0020852308089902
Common, R., Getachew Mengesha. "Public Sector Capacity Reform in Ethiopia: A Tale of Success in Two Ministries." Public Administration and Development 27(5)(2007) : 367-380. eScholarID:1b10318 | DOI:10.1002/pad.456
Common, R., Acevedo, B. "Governance and the Management of Networks in the Public Sector: UK Drugs Policy since 1995." Public Management Review 8(3)(2006) : 395-414. eScholarID:1b10319 | DOI:10.1080/14719030600853188
Common, R. "Administrative Change in the Asia Pacific: Applying the Political Nexus Triad." International Public Management Journal 7(2)(2004) : 347-364. eScholarID:1b10320
Common, R. "Organisational learning in a political environment: Improving policy making in the UK government." Policy Studies 21(1)(2004) : 35-50. eScholarID:1b10321 | DOI:10.1080/0144287042000208224
"The Competition State in China: does it fit the global trend?" Public Administration and Policy: A Hong Kong and Asia-Pacific Journal 9, no. 2(2000) : 27-36. eScholarID:189365
"Accounting for administrative change in three Asia-Pacific states: the utility of policy transfer analysis." Public Management 1, no. 3(1999) : 9. eScholarID:189369
