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作者：Kim, Sangmook; Vandenabeele, Wouter
作者单位：Utrecht University; KU Leuven
摘要：As public service motivation research grows qualitatively and quantitatively, some scholars question its appropriateness for international applications. This essay sets out a strategy of convergence for international research and measurement approaches. Studies that assess commonalities in public service motivation content internationally are analyzed in order to develop a broader conceptual and more operational definition as well as consequently a more universal public service motivation cons...
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作者：Paarlberg, Laurie E.; Lavigna, Bob
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Wilmington
摘要：Despite growing evidence about prosocial motivations and their effects on employee behavior, how can new public service motivation research translate into more effective management practices-which, so far, regrettably remain underdeveloped? Increasingly, public service motivation studies have moved from understanding what motivates public servants to exploring how public service motives influence performance. Similarly, greater attention is now paid to the practices of transformational leaders...
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作者：Seibel, Wolfgang
作者单位：University of Konstanz
摘要：The political role of public administration holds an ambiguous status in public administration theory. The dominant paradigms of the discipline offer more or less negative perspectives. Max Weber's notion of bureaucracy conceives public administration as the apolitical tool of government, while the public choice school conceives it as the realm of individual selfishness and rent seeking at taxpayers' expense. In this unfavorable epistemological environment, positive concepts of what makes publ...
