Namhoon Ki
Biographic Data
| ID | 2423698 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Namhoon Ki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Namhoon |
| FAMILY NAME | Ki |
| SIGNATURE | KI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7311-7195 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conflicting Signals and Bias in Public Performance Evaluation
Performance evaluation in public administration plays a critical role in improving public sector accountability and effectiveness, yet it is often vulnerable to systematic biases. This study examines how leniency and centrality biases affect program evaluation, particularly when evaluators face incongruent performance signals. Drawing on 1414 cases from Korean central government program evaluations and using heteroskedastic regression techniques,…
Do not ask for job information from your close friends or from strangers
How perceived risks in interorganizational collaboration shape disaster response strategies
Interorganizational collaboration is a means, through which governments to effectively respond to disasters. However, the extent to which collaboration risks embedded in interorganizational relationships shape such collaborative arrangements largely remains unanswered. This study examined the impact of collaboration risks as perceived by organizational representatives with regard to emergency management (EM). To this end, we conducted an EM surve…
Benefit and hidden cost of organizational support for telework amid the Covid‐19 pandemic on public employees' job satisfaction and retention intention
This study examines the impact of crisis‐induced telework during the COVID‐19 pandemic 2020 on public sector employees' job satisfaction (JS) and retention intention (RI). Analyses of the 2020 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey data reveal a negative association between the amount of COVID‐induced telework and the federal employees' JS and RI. However, this negative effect is mitigated by offering adequate organizational telework support for manda…
Untangling the Association Between Goal Clarity and Public Service Motivation With the Moderating Role of Value Congruence
Drawing on the socialization aspect of public service motivation (PSM) and the internalization process of organizational values, this study empirically tests the argument that goal clarity leads to higher PSM, with a specific focus on the moderating role of value congruence between them. Using data from 4,133 Korean public employees in the 2021 Public Employee Perception Survey, the current study finds that individuals’ perception of goal clarity…
Competition and Local Government's Choice Between Informal and Formal Collaborative Mechanisms
Informal and formal collaborative mechanisms are distinctive self-governing strategies that local governments use to mitigate intergovernmental collaboration risks. Studies on local governance have long argued that both mechanisms tend to co-occur and appear mutually complementary. However, extant research drawing on the transaction cost perspective provides a more nuanced and different explanation that as intergovernmental competition increases,…
The Effectiveness of Monetary and Promotion Rewards in the Public Sector and the Moderating Effect of PSM (PSM-Reward Fit or PSM Crowding Out)
To what extent does public service motivation (PSM) affect how monetary rewards and promotion opportunities motivate government officials? This study offers an answer to this question through a survey experiment conducted with a sample of city government officials in Florida. The experimental results demonstrate that both monetary and promotion reward treatments positively motivate officials with low PSM. However, as the level of PSM increases, t…
Public service motivation and government officials’ willingness to learn in public sector benchmarking process
Benchmarking between local governments has become an important topic in public administration. In benchmarking practice, local government officials play important roles in deciding what they learn, who they learn from, and how to adopt, and adapt to the lessons. However, less attention has been paid to why local government officials to willingly take lessons from their peer governments. Focusing on a particular type of motivational basis, public …
When Would a Democratic Governor Increase Social Welfare Funding? The Joint Moderation of a State's Economy and a Governor's Budgetary Authority
The partisanship of a policy maker is often noted as correlated with a state government's support for social welfare. However, less attention has been paid to how a governor is able to steer the budget in a manner that reflects her political views. This study assesses how changes in the economy and level of budgetary authority of the governor can jointly condition the effect of a governor's partisanship on the change in social welfare spending. U…
Has the fiscal decentralization of social welfare programs helped effectively reduce poverty across U.S. states
This paper looks at whether fiscal decentralization of welfare programs made state governments effective at alleviating poverty. We make use of the National Association of State Budget Officers’ (NASBO) State Expenditure Report which publishes expenditure data in different areas by state and federal government. Using this data, we constructed expenditure ratios to demonstrate the moment when state governments took on more responsibility in fundin…
Testing structural and relational embeddedness in collaboration risk
The study investigates the effect of embeddedness, defined as a property of interdependent relations in which organizations are integrated in a network, on collaboration risk emerging from relational uncertainty. Despite efforts to understand the structural effects of network governance, embedded relationships and their influence on collaboration remain relatively unexplored. A case of intergovernmental collaboration for emergency management is u…
Strength of Strong Ties in Intercity Government Information Sharing and County Jurisdictional Boundaries
Studies have found that information sharing between city governments can be easily observed within the same county jurisdiction, but less attention has been paid to the reasons why the jurisdictional boundary matters. This article fills this lacuna, drawing on the insight of the “strength of strong ties” argument that “people help their friends first.” The analysis reveals that city governments in the Orlando, Florida, metropolitan area are more …
Strength of Strong Ties in Intercity Government Information Sharing and County Jurisdictional Boundaries
Studies have found that information sharing between city governments can be easily observed within the same county jurisdiction, but less attention has been paid to the reasons why the jurisdictional boundary matters. This article fills this lacuna, drawing on the insight of the “strength of strong ties” argument that “people help their friends first.” The analysis reveals that city governments in the Orlando, Florida, metropolitan area are more …
Competition and Local Government's Choice Between Informal and Formal Collaborative Mechanisms
Informal and formal collaborative mechanisms are distinctive self-governing strategies that local governments use to mitigate intergovernmental collaboration risks. Studies on local governance have long argued that both mechanisms tend to co-occur and appear mutually complementary. However, extant research drawing on the transaction cost perspective provides a more nuanced and different explanation that as intergovernmental competition increases,…
Has the fiscal decentralization of social welfare programs helped effectively reduce poverty across U.S. states
This paper looks at whether fiscal decentralization of welfare programs made state governments effective at alleviating poverty. We make use of the National Association of State Budget Officers’ (NASBO) State Expenditure Report which publishes expenditure data in different areas by state and federal government. Using this data, we constructed expenditure ratios to demonstrate the moment when state governments took on more responsibility in fundin…
Testing structural and relational embeddedness in collaboration risk
The study investigates the effect of embeddedness, defined as a property of interdependent relations in which organizations are integrated in a network, on collaboration risk emerging from relational uncertainty. Despite efforts to understand the structural effects of network governance, embedded relationships and their influence on collaboration remain relatively unexplored. A case of intergovernmental collaboration for emergency management is u…
Strength of Strong Ties in Intercity Government Information Sharing and County Jurisdictional Boundaries
Studies have found that information sharing between city governments can be easily observed within the same county jurisdiction, but less attention has been paid to the reasons why the jurisdictional boundary matters. This article fills this lacuna, drawing on the insight of the “strength of strong ties” argument that “people help their friends first.” The analysis reveals that city governments in the Orlando, Florida, metropolitan area are more …
When Would a Democratic Governor Increase Social Welfare Funding? The Joint Moderation of a State's Economy and a Governor's Budgetary Authority
The partisanship of a policy maker is often noted as correlated with a state government's support for social welfare. However, less attention has been paid to how a governor is able to steer the budget in a manner that reflects her political views. This study assesses how changes in the economy and level of budgetary authority of the governor can jointly condition the effect of a governor's partisanship on the change in social welfare spending. U…
Has the fiscal decentralization of social welfare programs helped effectively reduce poverty across U.S. states
This paper looks at whether fiscal decentralization of welfare programs made state governments effective at alleviating poverty. We make use of the National Association of State Budget Officers’ (NASBO) State Expenditure Report which publishes expenditure data in different areas by state and federal government. Using this data, we constructed expenditure ratios to demonstrate the moment when state governments took on more responsibility in fundin…
Testing structural and relational embeddedness in collaboration risk
The study investigates the effect of embeddedness, defined as a property of interdependent relations in which organizations are integrated in a network, on collaboration risk emerging from relational uncertainty. Despite efforts to understand the structural effects of network governance, embedded relationships and their influence on collaboration remain relatively unexplored. A case of intergovernmental collaboration for emergency management is u…
Public service motivation and government officials’ willingness to learn in public sector benchmarking process
Benchmarking between local governments has become an important topic in public administration. In benchmarking practice, local government officials play important roles in deciding what they learn, who they learn from, and how to adopt, and adapt to the lessons. However, less attention has been paid to why local government officials to willingly take lessons from their peer governments. Focusing on a particular type of motivational basis, public …
The Effectiveness of Monetary and Promotion Rewards in the Public Sector and the Moderating Effect of PSM (PSM-Reward Fit or PSM Crowding Out)
To what extent does public service motivation (PSM) affect how monetary rewards and promotion opportunities motivate government officials? This study offers an answer to this question through a survey experiment conducted with a sample of city government officials in Florida. The experimental results demonstrate that both monetary and promotion reward treatments positively motivate officials with low PSM. However, as the level of PSM increases, t…
Untangling the Association Between Goal Clarity and Public Service Motivation With the Moderating Role of Value Congruence
Drawing on the socialization aspect of public service motivation (PSM) and the internalization process of organizational values, this study empirically tests the argument that goal clarity leads to higher PSM, with a specific focus on the moderating role of value congruence between them. Using data from 4,133 Korean public employees in the 2021 Public Employee Perception Survey, the current study finds that individuals’ perception of goal clarity…
Competition and Local Government's Choice Between Informal and Formal Collaborative Mechanisms
Informal and formal collaborative mechanisms are distinctive self-governing strategies that local governments use to mitigate intergovernmental collaboration risks. Studies on local governance have long argued that both mechanisms tend to co-occur and appear mutually complementary. However, extant research drawing on the transaction cost perspective provides a more nuanced and different explanation that as intergovernmental competition increases,…
Do not ask for job information from your close friends or from strangers
How perceived risks in interorganizational collaboration shape disaster response strategies
Interorganizational collaboration is a means, through which governments to effectively respond to disasters. However, the extent to which collaboration risks embedded in interorganizational relationships shape such collaborative arrangements largely remains unanswered. This study examined the impact of collaboration risks as perceived by organizational representatives with regard to emergency management (EM). To this end, we conducted an EM surve…
Benefit and hidden cost of organizational support for telework amid the Covid‐19 pandemic on public employees' job satisfaction and retention intention
This study examines the impact of crisis‐induced telework during the COVID‐19 pandemic 2020 on public sector employees' job satisfaction (JS) and retention intention (RI). Analyses of the 2020 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey data reveal a negative association between the amount of COVID‐induced telework and the federal employees' JS and RI. However, this negative effect is mitigated by offering adequate organizational telework support for manda…
Conflicting Signals and Bias in Public Performance Evaluation
Performance evaluation in public administration plays a critical role in improving public sector accountability and effectiveness, yet it is often vulnerable to systematic biases. This study examines how leniency and centrality biases affect program evaluation, particularly when evaluators face incongruent performance signals. Drawing on 1414 cases from Korean central government program evaluations and using heteroskedastic regression techniques,…
Political science (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (7 works) · Government (linguistics (5 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Public sector (4 works)