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Public Service Motivation Research: Achievements, Challenges, and Future Directions
Author(s) -
Perry James L.,
Vandenabeele Wouter
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.12430
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , extant taxon , loyalty , corporate governance , public service motivation , public service , stock (firearms) , dimension (graph theory) , public relations , politics , political science , sociology , business , marketing , public sector , computer science , finance , mechanical engineering , evolutionary biology , pure mathematics , law , biology , programming language , engineering , mathematics
This article takes stock of public service motivation research to identify achievements, challenges, and an agenda for research to build on progress made since 1990. After enumerating achievements and challenges, the authors take stock of progress on extant proposals to strengthen research. In addition, several new proposals are offered, among them conducting more research on the disaggregated construct, developing grounded theory of public service motivation to understand contextual variations across cultures and political institutions, and improving current measures to better capture loyalty to governance regime as an institutional dimension of the public service motivation construct .