Blar i BI Open på forfatter "Murdoch, Zuzana"
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Follow the Leader? Leader Succession and Staff Attitudes in Public Sector Organizations.
Geys, Benny; Connolly, Sara Jane; Kassim, Hussein; Murdoch, Zuzana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Public sector organizations face regular turnover in top leadership positions. Yet little is known about how such changes affect staff attitudes. The authors argue that top leader succession may influence staff attitudes, ... -
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 ... -
It’s About Time! Temporal Dynamics and Longitudinal Research Designs in Public Administration
Murdoch, Zuzana; MacCarthaigh, Muiris; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We are grateful to Tobias Bach, Germà Bel, Barry Burden, Julia Fleischer, Klaus Goetz, Fabian Hattke, Per Lægreid, Ken Meier, Rune Sørensen, Jan Wynen, and Susan Webb Yackee for insightful discussions. Zuzana Murdoch is ... -
Legitimacy Crises and the Temporal Dynamics of Bureaucratic Representation
Murdoch, Zuzana; Connolly, Sara Jane; Kassim, Hussein; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The representation of specific groups and social interests within (or by) the civil service has long been a concern of public administration scholarship. Yet, much of this literature focuses on representation at a single ... -
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. ... -
Organizational Stability and Resocialization in Public Administrations: Theory and Evidence from Norwegian Civil Servants (1986-2016)
Geys, Benny; Lægreid, Per; Murdoch, Zuzana; Trondal, Jarle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The organizational theory approach to public administration emphasizes that organizational features of public bureaucracies shape civil servants' role perceptions and opinions. This study brings forward a novel refinement ... -
Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007-2019)
Geys, Benny; Murdoch, Zuzana; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Countries have widely diverging regulations regarding the eligibility of public sector employees for political office, and the stringency of such regulations remains fiercely debated. Building on a demand and supply model ... -
Public Employees as Elected Politicians: Assessing the Substantive Effects of Passive Representation
Geys, Benny; Murdoch, Zuzana; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)In many countries, public sector employees are eligible to hold political offices during their employment as civil servants. This often triggers conflict-of-interest concerns that elected public employees might sway policies ... -
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 ... -
Staff Reallocations and Employee Attitudes towards Organizational Aims: Evidence using Longitudinal Data from the European Commission
Geys, Benny; Connolly, Sara; Kassim, Hussein; Murdoch, Zuzana (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Organizational reforms often involve substantial staff reallocations, creating both winners and losers within the same organization. We argue that allocating less (more) staff to a department signals a decrease (increase) ...