Publications

Conflicting Signals and Bias in Public Performance Evaluation: Leniency and Centrality in the Public Sector

Performance evaluation in public administration plays a critical role in improving public sector accountability and effectiveness, yet …
Namhoon Ki, Byung Hee Min
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Benefit and Hidden Cost of Organizational Support for Telework amid the COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Employees’ Job Satisfaction and Retention Intention

This study examines the impact of crisis-induced telework during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020 on public sector employees’ job …
Namhoon Ki, and David Lee
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Do Not Ask for Job Information from Your Close Friends or from Strangers: Strength of Moderate Ties in Finding a Satisfying Job

Drawing on Granovetter’s strength of ties concept, studies have argued that the strength of job seekers’ ties to the people through …
Namhoon Ki, Taewon Yoon, and Jeffrey Swanson
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Republican Governor, Unified Government and the U.S. States’ Death Penalty Executions

Currently, 24 states in the U.S. still permit the death penalty, along with three states temporarily suspending it. Nevertheless, there …
Gook Jin Kim, Namhoon Ki, and Na Yeon Kim
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How Perceived Risks in Interorganizational Collaboration shape Disaster Response Strategies

Interorganizational collaboration is a means, through which governments to effectively respond to disasters. However, the extent to …
Minsun Song, Joungyoon Hwang, and Namhoon Ki
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Has the Fiscal Decentralization of Social Welfare Rrograms Helped Effectively Reduce Poverty across U.S. States?

This paper looks at whether fiscal decentralization of welfare programs made state governments effective at alleviating poverty. We …
Jefferey Swanson and Namhoon Ki
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Untangling the Association between Goal Clarity and Public Service Motivation with the Moderating Role of Value Congruence

Drawing on the socialization aspect of public service motivation (PSM) and the internalization process of organizational values, this …
Gook Jin Kim, Namhoon Ki, and Taewon Yoon
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Competition and Local Government’s Choice Between Informal and Formal Collaborative Mechanisms: Measuring Dyadic Intercity Competition Through the Lens of Business Trade-offs

Informal and formal collaborative mechanisms are distinctive self-governing strategies that local governments use to mitigate …
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The Effectiveness of Monetary and Promotion Rewards in the Public Sector and the Moderating Effect of PSM (PSM-Reward Fit or PSM Crowding Out): A Survey Experiment

To what extent does public service motivation (PSM) affect how monetary rewards and promotion opportunities motivate government …
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Public Service Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and the Moderating Effect of Employment Sector: A Meta-Analysis

Public service motivation (PSM) literature suggests that PSM has a positive effect on employees’ job satisfaction. Using meta-analysis, …
Naon Min, Namhoon Ki, and Taewon Yoon
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Public Service Motivation and Local Government Officials’ Willingness to Learn in Public Sector Benchmarking Process

Benchmarking between local governments has become an important topic in public administration. In benchmarking practice, local …
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Strength of Strong Tie in Inter-City Government Information Sharing and County Jurisdictional Boundary

Studies have found that information sharing between city governments can be easily observed within the same county jurisdiction, but …
Namhoon Ki, Chang-Gyu Kwak, and Minsun Song
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Testing Structural and Relational Embeddedness in Collaboration Risk

The study investigates the effect of embeddedness, defined as a property of interdependent relations in which organizations are …
Minsun Song, Kyujin Jung, Namhoon Ki, and Richard C. Feiock
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When Would a Democratic Governor Increase Social Welfare Funding? The Joint Moderation of a State’s Economy and a Governor’s Budgetary Authority

The partisanship of a policymaker is often noted as correlated with a state government’s support for social welfare. However, less …
Jeffrey Swanson and Namhoon Ki
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Defection Vulnerability of Services and Inter-governmental Agreement for Public Service Delivery

Transaction cost approach explains that the government’s external service production mechanism is determined by two …
Namhoon Ki and Jongsun Park
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