Eran Vigoda-Gadot

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at University of Haifa

This study investigates the effect of organizational social capital (OSC) in non-profit organizations on communal social capital (CSC) in the communities where these organizations operate. The study has two goals: First, to theoretically establish rational for the relationship between internal organizational social capital (IOSC) and external organ...

This study theoretically and empirically tests a Publicness Perceptions Scale (PPS). Our goal is to understand the dimensions of publicness as interpreted by individuals working within different types of organizations, and the extent to which these perceptions vary across sectors. A two-study design with independent samples is used. Based on a lite...

Purpose This study investigates how compulsory citizenship behaviors (CCB) affect employees’ energy and motivation to engage in other voluntary behaviors, such as service-oriented citizenship behavior and creativity. Specifically, we explore how employees’ perceptions of job overload mediate this relationship, based on their generational difference...

Intelligence is a concept that occurs in multiple contexts and has various meanings. It refers to the ability of human beings and other entities to think and understand the world around us. It represents a set of skills directed at problem-solving and targeted at producing effective results. Thus, intelligence and governance are an odd couple. We e...

The COVID-19 pandemic extended interest in the relationships between citizens and governments in turbulent times of crises and emergencies. While the pandemic generated a critical existential threat to the lives of many, it also had a significant effect on the quality of life and on the wellbeing of even larger populations. This paper deals with th...

The intensity and impact of emergencies on communities and societies are on the rise. They call for better preparedness, responses, and coping strategies by all those who are involved, especially citizens and the government. This paper introduces the concept of emergency-oriented civic engagement (EOCE), which includes citizens’ attitudes and behav...

This article investigates the importance of civic engagement during emergencies. We consider various individual-level factors such as trust, risk cognition, fears about the emergency and cost–benefit analyses of engagement as factors that motivate citizens to become engaged. We argue that governments should recognise the value of community initiati...

The abstract of this article is located on pages 23-24 of the book of abstract attached.

Responsible research and innovation (RRI) has recently emerged as a policy framework to align technological innovation with broader social values. It helps regions focus on their strengths and boost their innovation, growth, and prosperity through partnerships between business, public entities, and knowledge institutions. However, the study of RRI...

The fiscal decentralization literature explores the efficient structure of local governments. However, little consideration has been given to the efficient structure of rural local governments. In this study we show that a dual-tier local government structure in rural areas is more efficient than the prevalent unitary structure. Specifically, we de...

Unlabelled: This paper investigated citizens' reactions to global crises using the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment. Theories in this field are controversial and thus knowledge on such reactions, their evolution, drivers, and consequences is limited. Building on several socio-psychological foundations such as trust building theories, the...

When and why do citizens comply with government policies and restrictions during emergencies? We investigate possible answers to this question. We propose a mediation model where trust in government and emergency organizations as well as perceived government effectiveness mediate the relationships between participation in decision making and the wi...

Internal auditing systems are aimed to provide independent and objective assessments regarding decisions, processes, and procedures and to identify barriers to organizational effectiveness. While research has shown that such systems indeed achieve their goals, it is unclear whether such effective auditing systems and also efficient. The current stu...

We present three studies that examine the relationship between perceptions about public personnel management and social resilience during a crisis among frontline public healthcare servants who battled the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on theories of public personnel management, crisis management, trust, and resilience, we suggest a model and hypotheses...

Institutional emergency management has become an integral part of public management practice and research. This paper investigates the factors related to people’s willingness to contribute to institutional emergency preparedness. We explore the relationships between this willingness and people’s perceptions about the likelihood of government handli...

The meaning of Publicness for organizations and for individuals has received growing attention in the public administration literature in recent years. We adopt a perceived publicness perspective to expand our understanding of the publicness concept and operationalize this perception as a means to predict employees’ formal and prosocial behaviors a...

What is the impact of work values and academic training on public service motivation over time? We present findings from a three‐phase longitudinal study on the evolvement public service motivation of Israeli students who gradually enter the job market. A cohort of 2799 students was surveyed in late 2012 and a surviving final cohort of 558 responde...

The COVID-19 pandemic clearly highlighted the importance of effective emergency management (Boin et al., 2020), as well as its connection with the legitimacy that the public accords to the government and their willingness to cooperate with it in such turbulent times (Christensen and Laegreid, 2020). More importantly, it made clear that trust betwee...

The Covid‐19 pandemic clearly highlighted the importance of effective crisis management and its relationship with citizens’ willingness to cooperate with the government in such turbulent times. We develop a theory and hypotheses about the impact of citizens’ experiences on their perceptions of the government's effectiveness during times of crisis....

In the realm of new localism and collaboration, local educational policymakers are called upon for responsible community leadership. Given the conceptual continuum between new localism and transformational leadership, this study examines the relationship between the leadership style of local educational policymakers and the involvement of local aut...

This paper explains the antecedents of trust in the judiciary. We question both the contention that procedural justice is a main explanation of trust in the judiciary and outcome-based theories that emphasize the role of distributive justice and court decisions in explaining that trust. Using arguments from the public management literature regardin...

Alternative provision of public health care: the role of citizens’ satisfaction with public services and the social responsibility of government – ERRATUM - N. Cohen, S. Mizrahi, E. Vigoda-Gadot

This paper explores the factors that influence citizens’ attitudes toward the alternative provision of healthcare services, leading them to be willing to make extra, informal payments within the public healthcare system. We question whether these attitudes depend primarily on inherent normative preferences, such as beliefs about the government’s re...

This article investigates the complex relationships between citizens' perceptions about the government’s social responsibility, their satisfaction with public services and their trust in government institutions. It uses data from a national survey of citizens in Israel and focuses on satisfaction with health care. We build on previous bureaucratic...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine hostility as a mediator of the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics (POP) and counterproductive work behavior (CWB). Design/methodology/approach The authors’ examined the mediation model using a sample of 171 full-time employees studying in an evening MBA program. The authors’...

The public administration literature has demonstrated the valuable impact of employees' engagement on public service. However, studies conventionally deal with engagement as a unidimensional construct, with few explanations for its evolution. To promote knowledge in this arena, the authors propose public sector engagement (PSE) as a multidimensiona...

This paper explores the factors that influence public trust in public organizations responsible for providing services before, during and after emergencies. We develop a research framework and test it using a survey distributed among a representative sample of the Israeli population. The analysis develops the concept of an emergency network and exp...

Retirement is a field of growing interest in both the public and the private sectors. Given the aging workforce in Western countries, understanding the factors that contribute to an employee’s decision to retire is an area of increasing interest to political, economic, social, and organizational scholars. Most retirement studies concentrate on a na...

Long-term unemployed workers are individuals who have been unemployed continuously for six or more months. Evidence shows that this form of unemployment is particularly deleterious, necessitating inquiry into factors that influence the duration of unemployment for these workers and their readjustment to work. Embeddedness theory sheds new light on...

Excellent public services build on excellent civil servants who are both emotionally intelligent and engaged in their work. This article proposes a conceptual framework for a better understanding of the relationship between public employees and their complex workplaces. We focus on the engagement of civil servants, the role of managers’ and employe...

La présente étude porte sur la nécessité de futures réformes managériales (NFRM – Need for future Managerial Reforms ) au sein de l’administration, telle qu’elle est perçue par des professeurs d’université du monde entier. Nous étudions et validons une nouvelle échelle mesurant la NFRM sur la base des principes traditionnels de la doctrine de la no...

Since the late 1980s, performance management has become a bon ton in central and local government research and practice. Its emergence is largely a result of neo-liberal ideas and the reforms of New Public Management. The goal of this study is to examine the relationship between performance management at the local level and citizens’ satisfaction w...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the views of authors in regard to the provenance and future of PM and the advantages of using management science in administrative science. The authors point to the meaning of both sciences for government studies and to the use that both theoreticians and practitioners may gain from adequately balanci...

This chapter builds on previous research that conceptualized organizational politics as an organizational stressor. After reviewing the studies that integrated the occupational stress literature with the organizational politics literature, it discusses the negative implications of the use of intimidation and pressure by supervisors, implications th...

This article examines the relative impact of internal and external factors on the financial decline of local Arab municipalities in Israel. We employ a unique case study to demonstrate that the negative relationship between local management policies and local financial crises is stronger than any other relationship; in addition, this relationship i...

We investigate the role of emotions in the public sector and their relation with work outcomes typical of public arenas. We focus on the emotional intelligence of public healthcare staff and its potential impact on public service motivation, job satisfaction, affective commitment and the quality of service to citizens. Using data from 200 nurses in...

This research examines local authority involvement in education as a function of local policymakers’ perceptions of education as a public service – namely, whether public education is for the benefit of society as a whole, or for individual students and parents. Perceptions of education and involvement in education were assessed through 107 questio...

This study deals with the Need for Future Managerial Reforms (NFMR) in public administration as perceived by university professors from around the globe. We explore and validate a new NFMR scale based on traditional principles of the New Public Management (NPM) doctrine (e.g. downsizing government, debureaucratization, decentralization, manageriali...

To the full paper please see: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09585192.2016.1180312?journalCode=rijh20 Research interest in the new concept of employee engagement has grown dramatically in recent years. Employee engagement represents a work-related state of mind characterized by feelings of vigor, fulfillment, enthusiasm, absorption an...

Contemporary careers and labor markets are dynamic and less stable than in the past. Employees are more self-reliant and innovative in order to advance their own career paths. People tend to employ adaptive schemes in order to move from job to job or from occupation to occupation. Adaptation is indicated by success, satisfaction, and development. C...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to examine the relationship between image, service satisfaction and public opinion towards reforms in public organizations and postulate a more detailed relationship among them. The concept “New Public Management” (NPM) was initially suggested in the literature sometime around the early 1990s (Aucoin, 1990; H...

Local governments explore alternative delivery strategies for their service portfolios by engaging both private markets of for-profit firms and public markets of intergovernmental agreements. This study investigates the critical role of professionally structured local governments in selecting between these alternative markets. The analysis of natio...

Link to the full study: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/D2YTzzdFxftnAIpcCTpB/full

Given the conceptual continuum between new localism and transformational leadership, this study examined the relationship between the leadership style of educational policy makers in local authorities and the involvement of the local authorities in issues pertaining to education within their jurisdictions. Leadership style and involvement in educat...

Since the 1970s, the literature on privatization has tried to find the right balance between the public interest and the neoliberal spirit of modern economies. This paper examines the implications of one such process – the privatizing of policy formation. Using examples from Israel, we maintain that allowing private interests to formulate public po...

Public administration scholars utilize transaction cost theory to explain the contracting dichotomy between make or buy. However, recent theoretical developments point to a mixed position, “make and buy,” as a strategic management choice. We draw insights from the private sector management literature on what it terms “concurrent sourcing” to build...

We propose a model that explains the complex phenomenon of successful career at work, and focuses on the antecedents of professional vitality at the workplace. The model sheds light on the role of professional vitality as an essential ingredient for successful careers. Using a survey design, we tested our model with a sample of 545 managers and pro...

Towards the end of our journey we try to synthesize the general ideas and rationales, models and findings, we used to present case for better governance in modern democracies. We focused on the need to maintain some balance between the quest for professional, quality-based management of the public sector and the aspiration to safeguard the essentia...

One of the old challenges in the management of states and society relates to the relationship between politics and administration or between those who represent collective goals and those who have expertise and knowledge about good management. Plato describes this dilemma, concluding that philosophers who represent the truth and knowledge should al...

This chapter focuses on the threats to the democratic order. We submit that such threats come not only from external enemies that share anti-democratic ideologies such as fundamentalist Islam, right-wing fascist parties and extremist right social groups, or neo-anarchist groups. An even more insidious threat may come from the lack of systematic man...

Can democracies, especially in times of stress and uncertainty, be managed effectively? If so, with what tools and at what price? This chapter will deal with the core dilemmas of managing modern democracies. We will review the relevant transformations of the modern democratic state that have created such difficult challenges for politicians and pol...

This chapter reviews current epistemological knowledge about bureaucracy and democracy and develops the argument for a paradox that characterizes their interaction. We will present conceptual approaches to the understanding of bureaucracy and democracy, explain the paradox, and lead the reader through the theoretical thinking that allows the transf...

In the previous chapter we discussed the models of democracy and the prospects of bureaucracy as well as the nexus, some say the paradox, between them. In this chapter we try to draw the lines connecting between those segments of bureaucracy and democracy using a theoretical model and based on an empirical analysis of some of the relationships. Fir...

February 2011 will be remembered in the history of modern nations as the doomsday of Arab regimes in many places across the Middle East. Revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and other Muslim countries reflected the deep crisis of citizens’ mistrust in old political arrangements, authoritarian institutions, and corrupt dictatorships....

Purpose – This study aims to examine the relationship between perceived organizational politics and emotional intelligence, and their interplay in the context of work attitudes/behaviors. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 368 employees was used to test a mediation effect of perceived organizational politics on the relationship between emot...

Organizational innovativeness (OI) is a central concept in academic research and managerial practice. In many cases, OI has been operationalized as the number of innovations organizations adopt. In contrast, this paper conceptualizes OI as a five-dimensional construct (creativity, openness, future orientation, risk-taking, and proactiveness) repres...

The aim of the current study is to explore whether the ecological footprint is an appropriate tool for encouraging ecological behaviors in students. In the quasi-experimental research that we conducted, four classes from one of the public high schools in the city of Haifa (N = 130) participated in an environmental education (EE) program (interventi...

This book discusses some of the main challenges that arise in the management of modern democracies, with a focus on the role of citizens and their perceptions of government. A theoretical and practical framework is suggested for dealing with some of the most urgent problems that governments face today: the balance between bureaucracy and democracy...

Performance in the third sector: A micro level theory...

This study examined the relationship between public-sector performance (PSP) and several aspects of citizenship involvement as perceived by 260 households in a large Israeli city. Participants reported their perceptions of local municipality operation(e.g., human quality of public servants, initiation and creativity, morality, and ethical standards...

Link to the full paper: http://arp.sagepub.com/content/43/5/518.short This article deals with the emerging concept of Employee Engagement (EE) and its meaning for public administration research and theory. Generically, EE reflects a positive, fulfilling, affective-motivational, work-related state of mind characterized by vigor, dedication, and abs...

We study a simple Markov chain, known as the Glauber dynamics, for generating a random k-coloring of an n-vertex graph with maximum degree Δ. We prove that, for every ε > 0, the dynamics converges to a random coloring within O(nlog n) steps assuming k ≥ k 0 (ε) and either: (i) k/Δ > α* + ε where α*≈≈ 1.763 and the girth g ≥ 5, or (ii) k/Δ >β * + ε...

Our world is changing rapidly, and organizations are at the core of that change. Organizations are playing a more central role in our life, in world economy, and in social and political transformations, affecting each individual in multiple ways. This is a recipe for larger and more severe crises in the years to come. Organizational scholars share...

This study examines multiple organizational climates and their relationship with politics and performance in public organizations. We argue that four types of climates (participative, innovative, leadership and service) impact employees' performance and public service outcomes, and that perceptions of organizational politics mediate these relations...

Ethics in public administration has been a subject of growing interest for both researchers and practitioners interested in the future of governance. This study examined the relationship between ethics and performance in local governance. We tested the effects over time of an ethics program on employees’ perceptions (awareness of the code of ethics...

In the face of global challenges and changes – some may even say because of them – one major dilemma looms large for citizens and leaders worldwide: how can we ensure that our countries address these challenges successfully? This book demonstrates that the answer can be found in a better match between the nature of modern bureaucracy and the spirit...

Examines employees' perceptions of organizational politics in the public sector and suggests that it mediates the relationship between job congruence (e.g., person–organization fit and level of met-expectations) and employee performance (e.g., organizational citizenship behavior [OCB] and in-role performance). A survey was conducted among 303 indiv...

This study examined trust that public servants have in citizens. We build on the reciprocal nature of trust and applied Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to test both the antecedents to public servants’ trust in citizens (e.g., job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational politics, public sector motivation and generalized trust) and...

The current volume turns into account the most representative papers accepted and presented at the Permanent Study Group «Public and Nonprofit Marketing» of the 33rd Annual Conference of the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA), which was held in Bucharest during 7-10 September 2011 and was organized by the National School of Political S...

Local government scholars are giving increasing attention to market solutions to urban service delivery. Intermunicipal contracting and privatization are two market approaches to reaching economies of scale. Using national data on over one thousand municipalities from across the United States for the 1992–2007 period, we explore the differences bet...

One way in which institutions can implement the idea of sustainability is through the use of ecological indicators that will characterize the current situation and help determine where to focus efforts in order to achieve the goal of sustainability. The use of the ‘Ecological Footprint Analysis’ (EFA) represents an innovative attitude to calculate...

Using a well-grounded theory of organizational citizenship behavior, this study attempts to extend the meaning of the good soldier syndrome beyond its common boundaries of the business sector. We follow Bettencourt's (2004) conceptualization and model of change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) to explain why and how public employe...

Most previous within-discipline research on innovativeness as an organizational trait does not account for cross-disciplinary perspectives, leading to incomplete findings. This paper develops an integrative model of organizational innovativeness, based on research in several disciplines to identify antecedents to, characteristics of, and outcomes o...

We propose a career model that focuses on the antecedents of career success for managers and professionals within organizations. The model includes constructs rarely represented in the literature, and is based on conservation of resources theory. Testing our model with a sample of 545 managers, we found significant effect of positive and negative s...

Education is widely acknowledged to be a means for advancing environmental sustainability. Many schools have recently introduced the idea of sustainability into their educational agenda and curriculum. This study uses an innovative method of communicating the principle of sustainability, the ‘Ecological Footprint’ Analysis, which illustrates the im...

This article examines the professional and organizational factors that promote or impede the adoption of a market orientation among social workers in social service organizations. We argue that market orientation is important, as it can strengthen the social workers' relationships with citizens as clients, resulting in the development of better ser...

This study has a twofold goal. First, we examined perceptions of organizational politics as viewed by the academic staff in a public university. Second, we tested the potential mediating effect of perceptions of politics on the relationship between social capital and work outcomes. We surveyed 142 junior and senior faculty members of a large public...

We examined the prospects of successful career transition from the defense forces and into the dynamic and turbulent civilian career, focusing on possible antecedents for success in the second career. Based on a sample of 202 high level retirees from military and civilian defense organizations in Israel, our results indicate that preparations for r...

This paper is part of an international project assessing the quality of public sector management and public sector as well as public trust and satisfaction with the public sector and the degree to which the public is involved in decision making in the public sector. The results are based on an initial and exploratory sample of 1,104 citizens who re...

This paper is part of an international project assessing the quality of public sector management and public sector performance as well as public trust and satisfaction with the public sector and the degree to which the public is involved in decision making in the public sector. The results are based on an initial and exploratory sample of 1,104 cit...