Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration

An Exploration of Entrepreneurial Orientation andOrganizational Commitment: A Focus on the Role ofPublic Service Motivation

8/9/2017

Reginald Ugaddan, Hyun-Gyu Oh and Sung-Min Park
Sungkyunkwan University

Entrepreneurship has been a core interest in public administration theory
and practice. The focus on entrepreneurial practices is important because
it may address the increasing demand to effectively and efficiently
enhance government performance. Some perceive that shifting
organizational strategies towards innovation may encourage or
undermine individual motivation and behavior. While various studies
evaluated the consequences of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in the
organization, the process through which they influence employees’ public
service motivation (PSM) and organizational commitment (OC) has
received less attention. To address this gap, the study examines the
relationship of entrepreneurial leadership, entrepreneurial orientation,
PSM, and OC in a dataset of Korean civil servants. Results suggest that
EO is associated with PSM and OC. PSM partially mediated the
relationship of EO and OC. Finally, the article points out the study’s
theoretical, empirical, and practical implications and directions for future
research.

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The Effects of Political Factors on Public ServiceMotivation: Evidence from the Lebanese Civil Service

8/9/2017

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Elias A. Shahda
University of Gloucestershire

The widespread infusion of pro-market and business management
principles into the public sector has impeded the behavior of civil servants
who are motivated by intrinsic motives, not external ones. Besides, the
infusion of such principles caused great threats to basic values of the civil
service, like equity, fairness, justice, accountability, impartiality, political
neutrality, public welfare, and other values related to the public sector.
From here, public service motivation (PSM) emanates as a reaction
against these principles/techniques in the civil service. PSM has been
studied in different developed countries; however, it was almost ignored in
developing countries, especially Arab states. This study focuses on two
significant under-theorized areas: the conceptualization of PSM in the
Lebanese civil service, and the identification of an external dimension
(political factors) and its role in facilitating or obstructing the
development of this construct.

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Linking Service Contracting to CollaborativeGovernance: Evidence from Shanghai

8/9/2017

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YiJia Jing
Fudan University
and
YeFeu Hu
Tsinghua University

Collaborative governance (CG) with nonprofits has been sought around
the world by governments looking for innovative ways to deal with
complex public and social issues. Yet, it has been a generic difficulty for
governments to promote and forge CG, especially in contexts without a
strong nonprofit tradition. This article, by using field studies in Shanghai
of China, argues that multiple mechanisms may arise from service
contracting and induce collaborative governance through an unintended
learning process. Service contracting helps cultivate mutual trust between
governments and nonprofits, enhances organizational development in
nonprofits, and gives them an opportunity to engage in community
governance networks. These spontaneous mechanisms create nonprofit
collaborators that make public decisions, enforce regulatory functions,
and influence community governance. Public managers may make
conscious policy and management efforts to consolidate the enabling and
facilitating elements of contracting in order to maximize its potential to
forge collaborative governance.

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Left Front Government, Rural Development andGovernance in India’s West Bengal: Lessons from a NewExperiment

8/9/2017

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Prabhat Datta
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata

Borne out of the prevailing socio-economic context in 20th century India
and the growing disenchantment in electoral politics by the middle class,
the Left Front Government (LFG) in West Bengal emerged to become one
of the longest-surviving leftist regimes in the world, spanning over three
decades in existence. The landless and marginalized, which became the
focus of LFG for its rural development policies, initially constituted a
strong electoral base. However, support for the LFG waned in recent
years, following crises in leadership at the local level and internal
weaknesses in the democratic processes and institutions that LFG
established in the villages. Using the liberalist pluralist framework of
democratic decentralization as its analytic lens, this article discusses the
challenges faced by the LFG, and how social, political, and institutional
factors eventually led to its decline in the recent years.

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The Development of Modern Public Administration as aDiscipline in India

8/9/2017

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Prabhat Datta
Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
and
Pan-Suk Kim
Yonsei University

After the Second World War, developing countries came under the
influence of American scholarship through exchange programs, funding of
public administration institutions, and direct consulting by American
development experts. As other developing countries established similar
institutions, India’s then-Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru,
established the Indian Institute of Public Administration in March 1954
based on the recommendations of a survey carried out in 1953 by
American scholar, Paul H. Appleby, then Dean of the Maxwell School of
Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in the USA. Since
then, Indian public administration has developed significantly in both
quality and quantity of research and professional education. However,
there are many issues to consider for further development. Accordingly,
this article tackles such matters in reviewing the spread of American
influence in India and the status of public administration as a discipline,
and, then, discusses the neo-liberal and technological phase and its
administrative implications.

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An Exploration of Entrepreneurial Orientation andOrganizational Commitment: A Focus on the Role ofPublic Service Motivation

The Effects of Political Factors on Public ServiceMotivation: Evidence from the Lebanese Civil Service

Linking Service Contracting to CollaborativeGovernance: Evidence from Shanghai

Left Front Government, Rural Development andGovernance in India’s West Bengal: Lessons from a NewExperiment

The Development of Modern Public Administration as aDiscipline in India

ARPA 2016VOLUME 27, NO. 1 & 2

ARPA 2016
VOLUME 27, NO. 1 & 2