Public Organization Adaptation to Extreme Events: Mediating Role of Risk Perception

Zhang, Fengxiu; Welch, Eric W.; Miao, Qing

doi:10.1093/jopart/muy004

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“…In this study, institutional anticorruption is presumed not only to imprint directly on citizens' whistleblowing, but also to produce indirect dynamics via situational settings. With wide applicability in extant literature (Van Ryzin, ; Zhang, Welch, & Miao, ), SEM proves to be a great fit for exploring multiple dynamics that institutional anticorruption had on whistleblowing. Citizens were embedded in prefectural cities, necessitating the use of clustered standard errors (Woodridge, ).…”

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Why so few acting whistleblowers? Impacts of institutional anticorruption

2019

Governance

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Despite strong whistleblowing intention, very few truly act to blow the whistle. Building on a random sample of local citizens with citywide anticorruption performance indicators, this study investigated the linkages between institutional anticorruption and citizens' whistleblowing acts, both directly and indirectly via situational settings (i.e., corruption incidence and corruptive climate). The findings confirmed the impacts of varying anticorruption practices and detected both direct and indirect trajectories. More judicial convictions against senior officials directly reduced citizens' subsequent whistleblowing acts, but also indirectly invited more as they signaled more ensuing corruption incidence, with overall effects toward reduced whistleblowing. More citywide public whistleblowing incentivized more individual whistleblowing subsequently; yet, such effects were canceled out as such practices also deterred ensuing corruption incidence and indirectly reduced citizens' acts. The total effects explained why there were so few acting whistleblowers. The study concludes with discussion of research findings and potential policy implications.

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Why so few acting whistleblowers? Impacts of institutional anticorruption

2019

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“…Gelfand et al (2011) have illustrated that the looseness–tightness cultural orientation can impact individuals’ adherence to social norms and subsequently influence their perception of responsibility in state–citizen interactions (Gelfand et al, 2011; Trnka & Trundle, 2014). As suggested by behavioral public administration studies (Tummers, 2019; F. Zhang et al, 2018), the adoption of policy measures across different countries by and large depends on the public’s attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and willingness to cooperate in regard to containing the pandemic (X.…”

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Why Do Countries Respond Differently to COVID-19? A Comparative Study of Sweden, China, France, and Japan

Yan

Zhang

et al. 2020

The American Review of Public Administration

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Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are important public health tools to fight against COVID-19. Governments around the world have instituted a variety of NPIs to modify individuals’ behavior, giving rise to four distinct pandemic response strategies: nudge, mandate, decree, and boost. To better understand the different policy choices involved in these strategies, four countries including Sweden, China, France, and Japan were compared to identify the critical institutional and cultural determinants of national response strategy. The finding shows that various responses regarding same threat are dependent on the distinctive institutional arrangements and cultural orientation of each country, and thus, there is no One-Size-Fits-All strategy.

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“…Regulatory policies are tailored to avoid mounting interdependence, with improved channels for providing economic assistance to citizens and businesses. As highlighted by previous research in the field of crisis management, an organization's risk perception positively mediates the effects of its experience with extreme events on its adaptive capacity building (Zhang et al, 2018). This makes the role of public administration research all the more important to make sense of the patterns of the challenges and provide policy makers with the cognitive understanding that longerterm investment in capacity is necessary for enhanced resilience.…”

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Public Administration and Creeping Crises: Insights From COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

Mascio

Natalini

Cacciatore³

2020

The American Review of Public Administration

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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that a new and unforeseen threat easily outmatched political-administrative systems currently in place. Our commentary on the Italian case contributes to the call for public administration scholars to incorporate crisis management into the main research agendas of the field. We focus on regulatory capacity that is needed to tackle the effects of COVID-19. Under crisis conditions of radical urgency and uncertainty, the Italian regulatory policy has been based on temporary, fast-track procedures. The latter have been regularly applied when Italian governments confront with natural disasters and prompt action is ensured by a repertoire of extraordinary measures running in parallel to burdensome ordinary procedures. We discuss the implications of this “two-track” approach for governance capacity and legitimacy. We also extrapolate existing trends and engage with projection of future developments.

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Public Organization Adaptation to Extreme Events: Mediating Role of Risk Perception

Cited by 87 publications

References 85 publications

Why so few acting whistleblowers? Impacts of institutional anticorruption

Why so few acting whistleblowers? Impacts of institutional anticorruption

Why Do Countries Respond Differently to COVID-19? A Comparative Study of Sweden, China, France, and Japan

Public Administration and Creeping Crises: Insights From COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

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