Browsing by Author "Murdoch, Zuzana"
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How pre- and post-recruitment factors shape role perceptions of European Commission officials
Trondal, Jarle; Murdoch, Zuzana; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Individuals' role perceptions are central guides to their behavior and choices as members of an organization. Understanding organizational dynamics thus requires knowledge about the determinants of such role perceptions, ... -
Identity, Threat Aversion, and Civil Servants' Policy Preferences: Evidence from in the European Parliament
Kuehnhanss, Colin; Murdoch, Zuzana; Geys, Benny; Heyndels, Bruno (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Distinct policy options are typically characterized by a number of advantages (or ‘opportunities’) and disadvantages (or ‘threats’). The preference for one option over another depends on how individuals within an organization ... -
Institutional dynamics in international organizations: Lessons from the recruitment procedures of the European External Action Service
Murdoch, Zuzana; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article examines how organisational designs develop by proposing a novel theoretical framework that views organisational change as resulting from a dialectic process between interpretive agents. The key claim is that ... -
Instrumental calculation, cognitive role-playing, or both? Self-perceptions of seconded national experts in the European Commission
Murdoch, Zuzana; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Most work studying micro-processes of integration – i.e. how agents develop identities and decision-making behaviours within a particular institution – offers explanations based on either instrumental rationality or ... -
On Trojan Horses and revolving doors: Assessing the autonomy of national officials in the European Commission
Trondal, Jarle; Murdoch, Zuzana; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Abstract. National officials working in international bureaucracies regularly invokes the fear that member-states strategically use such officials for influencing decision-making and agenda-setting to their advantage. ... -
Representative bureaucracy and seconded national government officials in the European Commission
Murdoch, Zuzana; Trondal, Jarle; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The bureaucratic arms of modern international organizations increasingly consist of staff with ambiguous organizational affiliations. This article analyses implications of this trend from the perspective of the Representative ... -
Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics
Trondal, Jarle; Murdoch, Zuzana; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)The vast majority of existing studies on bureaucratic representation focus on bureaucracies’ permanent and internal staff. Yet, the rising sophistication of modern democracies and the technocratization of political life ...