Public service motivation: State of the art and conceptual cleanup

Wouter Vandenabeele; Adrian Ritz; Oliver Neumann

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55269-3_13

Public service motivation: State of the art and conceptual cleanup

Wouter Vandenabeele^*, Adrian Ritz, Oliver Neumann

^*Corresponding author for this work

UU LEG Research USG Public Matters

University of Bern

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Abstract

Public service motivation is an increasingly researched and, at the same time, hotly debated concept in the field of public management and public administration. It refers to the motivation people have to contribute to society. This chapter provides an overview of what has happened so far in this field since the introduction of the concept in the 1980s and 1990s, with a particular focus on the role of the research community. In this overview, causes, consequences, and related theories are identified. The chapter also establishes gaps in the literature and issues that remain unresolved. In so doing, we carry out a conceptual cleanup by positioning the subject alongside related but different concepts such as intrinsic motivation, altruism, and prosocial motivation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	261-278
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781137552693
ISBN (Print)	9781137552686
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55269-3_13
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2017

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