Over the past two decades, research on public service motivation has seen rapid growth.
Despite the relatively large number of publications to date, no systematic research overview …

While public service motivation (PSM) research has recently become more internationalised,
over 80% of all scholarship is still being conducted in Europe and the United States. In this …

The literature on public accountability is extensive but overwhelmingly focuses on
accountability of organizations. Yet, accountability mechanisms can function properly only …

I finished writing this book during a five-week research leave in New York. The apartment we
stayed in was located in a 'not so gentrified'part of Brooklyn. Being confronted with the raw …

We add new data to the long-standing debate about the interface between politics and
administration, deploying theory and evidence indicating that it varies. It can be either a …

This article assesses the validity of normative claims on how civil servant values in East
Asian and Western European administrations differ. By triangulating quantitative and …

Most Western studies into motivation suggest that public servants are prosocial. Moreover,
scholars suggest that a desire for external rewards, like pay and job security, may crowd out …

Although it is argued that organizational leaders' perceptions of external shocks determine
organizations' willingness to prepare for future shocks, insights on the sensemaking …

This study expands our knowledge about public service motivation in the context of politics
as a concept defined by self‐interested and other‐interested motives. Current research …

Does relative performance information (PI) still impact politicians' attitudes when the
potential for external blame or credit is limited? And, if not, is the active disclosure of PI about …