{"title":"Assessing the determinants of Myanmar government employees’ job satisfaction through Herzberg’s two-factor theory","authors":"Z. Thant","doi":"10.1177/15396754221137193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221137193","url":null,"abstract":"Studies on Myanmar public employees’ job satisfaction are very limited. To understand which factors affect these employees’ job satisfaction, this study adopted Herzberg’s two-factor theory and tested its applicability in assessing self-administered survey data (N = 1,225). Results showed that Herzberg’s original sets of motivators and hygiene factors can measure government employees’ job satisfaction and that both motivators and factors are important in explaining job satisfaction. Specifically, public service motivation and religiosity contribute to job satisfaction, and family orientation’s negative effect on job satisfaction is statistically significant. Formulating flexible work schedules and dependent care programs can reduce employees’ work-family conflicts.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"27 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47744693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The correlation between the Big Five personality traits and political information exposure","authors":"Yang Zhao","doi":"10.1177/15396754221129707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221129707","url":null,"abstract":"In the era of media convergence, Internet users’ levels of access to current political information are diverse. Based on selective exposure theory, this study employed K-means clustering and multinomial logistic regression and 2017 Chinese National Survey Data Archive data to study the correlation between the Big Five personality traits and political information exposure. The results showed that Internet users can be divided into three types, according to the frequency of their access: comprehensive, domestic modern, and apathetic. Netizens with high extroversion were correlated with regular browsing of current political information from comprehensive accesses. Those with high agreeableness were correlated with a preference for current political information as relayed by domestic modern media. Those with high levels of neuroticism were correlated with paying little attention to current political information.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"39 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48581226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of government subsidies on firms’ innovation inputs and outputs in the early stage of the wind industry development","authors":"Xue Gao","doi":"10.1177/15396754221130470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221130470","url":null,"abstract":"Government subsidies are necessary to stimulate firms’ private investments and innovation activities. Although many studies have examined the relationship between government subsidies and innovations in developed countries, only a few studies focus on emerging industries in developing countries. This study aims at estimating the impact of government subsidies on firms’ investments and innovation in the early stage of the Chinese wind industry using propensity score matching. The results show that government subsidies have no statistically significant impacts on firms’ innovation outcomes and R&D investments in the early stage of the industry, while both estimates are positive. These policy outcomes might result from the non-R&D use of government subsidies, the uncertainty of market demand, and the insufficient amount and the uncertainty of the durability of government subsidies in 2007. This study provides implications for the design of government subsidy policies to build domestic renewable energy industries in the early development stage.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"15 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43665370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Explore the role of nonprofits in local health departments’ contracting out decision","authors":"Tianshu Zhao","doi":"10.1177/15396754221130505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221130505","url":null,"abstract":"Although government contracting has been growing fast for many public services, local health departments still maintain most service delivery in house. This study analyzes the outsourcing data from the 2016 National Profile of Local Health Department Study. Through tobit and two-factor model analysis, this study investigates the role of nonprofits in affecting the contracting out decision in local health departments (LHDs). The findings demonstrate different mechanisms in the two-step outsourcing decisions: (1) the make-or-buy decision is influenced by the extent of market competition and (2) the buy-more-or-less decision is impacted by the rate of health care nonprofits as well as the extent of market competition. Meanwhile, LHDs would keep service delivery in house to provide health care safety net for those vulnerable population. These results provide implications for how local health department directors should tailor their contracting out decisions to meeting public health service needs.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"3 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42325655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Network governance and effectiveness on renewable energy integration: A comparative case study on power transmission networks in the United States","authors":"T. Tang, Wenhui Li, Guimin Zheng","doi":"10.1177/15396754221128882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221128882","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how network structure and coordinating mechanisms in the US power transmission system affect the integration of wind energy through comparative case studies. The two transmission network cases represent two major transmission network governance models in the US power sector. Using archival data from all network participants and interviews with key stakeholders, we find that a centralized transmission network coordinated by an independent network administrative organization (NAO) is more effective in integrating wind power than a less centralized structure. Particularly, the concentration of decision-making authorities is a more substantial determinant than the structural centrality of the core agency. The two cases also highlight that hierarchy, collaboration, and market mechanisms coexist in a transmission network to manage the tension between stability and flexibility. When the network operates in a turbulent environment with great uncertainties, different coordinating mechanisms complement each other to improve system resilience.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"195 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41746878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Policy gaps under the energy and infrastructure projects: Commercial capacity development in an economically struggling regime","authors":"Yung-Pin Lu, M. A. Rana","doi":"10.1177/15396754221124220","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221124220","url":null,"abstract":"The policy gaps could easily appear in national projects of developing regimes when they lack local policy evidence during the decision and implementation stages toward economic development. We have identified collaborative governance (CG) literature and models as a strategy to bridge the policy gaps during the development of commercial capacities in Pakistan. Although frameworks exist to investigate CG practice for a national endeavor, the emerging nature of CG in a developing regime requires a specific theoretical framework to test the local implications. Therefore, we attempted to establish a new theoretical framework for CG. We have assigned collaboration elements that are more compatible to find out grassroots policy evidence in relation to economic measures from relevant stakeholders. Commercial capacity development depends upon the successful execution of energy and infrastructure portfolios in the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The local Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) organizations gave their policy perspectives about the viability and gaps in the existing CPEC policies. The findings depict that collaboration structures are not advanced at all administrative levels in developing countries compared to the developed regimes. Marginalized representation is instrumental in conceptualizing the CG for developing contexts. It could also save the transactional cost and limitations of political and legal nature while exercising the CG in any national project of a developing regime, especially for long-run goals.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"211 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43694356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can coproduction change the perceived outcome of rural public services? Evidence from the “New Socialist Countryside” initiative in China","authors":"Liyi Zheng","doi":"10.1177/15396754221116714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221116714","url":null,"abstract":"The recent research on citizen participation in the provision of public services represented by coproduction has become a hot topic in public management. Coproduction studies propose that citizens can directly or indirectly participate in the process of public services to help improve the quality and legitimacy of public services. Very little, however, has been written in the existing coproduction literature on the outcome of public services provision. Based on the “One-Hundred Villages” Survey in 2020, this article analyzes and evaluates the impact of coproduction on the perceived outcome of public service in rural China. A series of statistical analysis results show that both co-planning and co-delivery have significant and positive impacts on how one views the outcome of rural public service provision. This research provides new evidence in rural China that citizen participation plays a crucial role in the state-led “New Socialist Countryside” campaign.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"137 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45893599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emerging from disruptions and ambiguities: Understanding local government innovative responses during the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Laura Keyes, H. Jang, Lisa A. Dicke, Yu Shi","doi":"10.1177/15396754221115803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221115803","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the utility of an integrated approach which combines the Incident Command System (ICS) model and the Disruption-Ambiguity-Innovation-Challenge model, for understanding local government homeless service responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. A case study in the City of Dallas, Texas is used to understand how three functional areas of the ICS (authority, operations, and finances), were influential in creating disruptions, ambiguities, innovations, and challenges for local government and its nonprofit partners. By using an integrated approach, we identify challenges, learning outcomes, and action strategies useful for consideration for local governments’ strategies for crisis management.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"252 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43918806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The trend and characteristics of China studies published in SSCI public administration journals: A bibliometric analysis","authors":"Daan Wang, C. Hsieh","doi":"10.1177/15396754221112142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221112142","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars of China studies have been keen to publish in SSCI journals since mainland Chinese universities started to embrace international academic standards in the early 1990s. The widespread assumption is that publishing in SSCI journals contributes to not only the promising career of an individual scholar but also knowledge accumulation and development in the Chinese public administration field. However, it remains unanswered concerning which topic of China studies is more likely to arouse interest from journal editors and reviewers. As SSCI publications become increasingly desirable yet challenging for Chinese scholars, this study attempts to offer recommendations by exploring the trend and characteristics of China studies published in SSCI public administration journals, which are included in the Web of Science (WoS) database. This study uses bibliometric analysis to conduct a systematic review on 584 articles of China studies published in 47 SSCI public administration journals. It aims to generate various quantitative results, including journal ranking, title and keywords co-occurrences network, citation analysis, co-citation network, co-authorship network, bibliographic coupling network, and so on. In this way, this paper will reveal the latest trend and characteristics of China studies published in SSCI public administration journals. Consequently, it will help scholars enhance the quality and quantity of China studies, advance their chances of success in SSCI public administration journals, and broaden and deepen their contribution to the global academic community.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"239 - 251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44823151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ruling with a velvet glove: The catalyzing role of humble leadership in transforming employees’ empowerment role identity into proactivity","authors":"Bo Wen, Shenghao Guo, Qianqian Hu, Jinhan Wan","doi":"10.1177/15396754221108441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15396754221108441","url":null,"abstract":"Employees have always striven for a sense of empowerment while employers endeavor to forge a more proactive workforce that will strengthen organizations. However, the possible link between empowerment and proactivity, as well as the influence of other factors, has seldom been explored. This study fills this gap by examining how humble leadership can help employees with empowerment role identity to further strengthen their vitality and ultimately elicit proactive behavior. Using data collected from a sample of 326 employee-supervisor dyads in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry in China, we argue that employees’ vitality mediates the positive correlation between their empowerment role identity and proactive behavior. In light of the Johnson-Neyman technique, this study further indicates that the relationship between empowerment role identity and employee vitality is significantly positive when humble leadership is rated above 5.195 on a 7-point Likert scale; however, this relationship turns negative when humble leadership drops below 1.429. Thus, humble leadership moderates the mediating role that vitality plays in helping employees with empowerment needs to achieve greater proactivity. These findings deepen our understanding of how subordinates with relatively high power demands and enthusiasm can be effectively motivated in the workplace.","PeriodicalId":41625,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Public Administration Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"178 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46614402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}