A Vacancy Chain Model of Local Managers' Career Advancement

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Yi, Hongtao; Chen, Catherine
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1053-1858
• DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muab039
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 524-542
• 关键词: city-managers; turnover intention; EMPLOYEE TURNOVER; job mobility; diffusion; ORGANIZATIONS; INNOVATION; diversity; voluntary; networks

摘要

Local public managers are mobile in their career trajectories. While the extant public administration literature has predominantly examined this topic from a leadership turnover perspective, few studies have approached the career trajectories of local managers from a holistic, system-level angle. This article draws upon the vacancy chain literature and frames local managers' interconnected career trajectories within a nationwide professional job market, which we term leadership turnover chains. We examine factors influencing the formation of such leadership turnover chains among cities. With a dataset containing information from the resumes of 517 US local managers across 28 years, we employ panel dyadic logistic regressions to analyze the leadership turnover chains among cities. Our findings suggest that managers are more likely to move among dyads of cities that are geographically close and with similar levels of economic prosperity, population size, racial diversity, and political climate. A promotion intercity turnover tends to take place from a populous city to a less populous city, while a demotion intercity turnover exhibits an opposite pattern. This study contributes to the theory of leadership turnover of local managers, highlighting a macro vacancy chain perspective on their career trajectories.