Kwangseon Hwang

• PhD. Public administration, Public management, Policy analysis, Public accountabiltiy
• Professor (Associate) at Gachon University

Little research has explored the dark side of accountability systems in terms of their negative effects on public employee well-being. This study uses Job Demand-Resource theory to provide an integrated understanding of how accountability systems reflecting the paradigms of traditional bureaucracy, new public management, and public governance impac...

This paper examines the current state of Policy Capacity (PC) in South Korea, focusing on government officials and public researchers, and proposes strategies for enhancement. Despite significant progress, including the establishment of specialized agencies like the Korea Development Institute (KDI) and the National Research Council for Economics,...

Institutional thinking, a concept that underscores the importance of internal perspectives and the enduring purposes of institutions, plays a critical role in maintaining societal stability and ethical governance. This paper explores the dual nature of institutional thinking, highlighting its positive aspects and inherent dangers. Through an examin...

This study investigates the impact of decision-making participation on communication within public organizations, with a particular focus on how the clarity of organizational goals moderates this relationship. Using data from the 2022 Public Service Life Survey conducted by the Korea Institute of Public Administration, the research examines communi...

This study developed an analytical framework enabling a better understanding of the relationship between accountability and public trust through the moderation effect of public participation. To test the relationship empirically, a cross‐sectional survey was conducted in three local governments of two provinces in Nepal. The results demonstrated th...

This study aims to examine the impact of transformational leadership (TL) on employees’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). It further aims to examine the mediating effect of organizational commitment (OC), and the moderating effect of organizational justice (OJ) and public service motivation (PSM), as perceived by Nasser Social Bank employe...

This essay reviews the literature and discusses the utility of neo-institutionalism for organizational change in public administration. Neo-institutionalism theory has been characterized as focusing on the similarities of organizations (isomorphism) and the stability of organizational arrangements in a field of organizations. However, in the past t...

This study empirically examines the relationship between several accountability aspects and perceived work performance in the specific context of child-welfare services in the State of Virginia. The results show mixed evidence. For example, legal and ethical accountabilities positively affect performance, but each type of accountability (formal and...

This study empirically examines the relationship between several accountability aspects and perceived work performance in the specific context of child-welfare services in the State of Virginia. The results show mixed evidence. For example, legal and ethical accountabilities positively affect performance, but each type of accountability (formal and...

This article decouples accountability and performance to highlight the cognitive gap in the ability to discern between accountability and performance at the street level. A qualitative content analysis of interviews from child welfare caseworkers provides several noteworthy findings. While these terms share certain common key themes, they also have...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the complexity of administrative reform and its implications. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on an extensive review of the literature. Findings The most conspicuous fashion might be new public management (NPM) and its successor, post-NPM. However, recent reforms which involve complexity created...

Public employees are required to manage multiple accountability requirements by investing in the relationship with those who demand accountability, making a commitment to the given tasks and anticipating what might happen. The purpose of the study is to explore how social caseworkers manage multiple accountability requirements compared to public ma...

This study examines factors affecting the performance of basic research in South Korea. Creative Research Program (CRP), which is one of the major basic research programmes, is a study target. The survey of N = 120 researchers from universities and research institutes was conducted in 2010. Basic research performance which is the dependent variable...

The goal of this paper is to deliver a concise form of discussion on the use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in environmental policy formulation in the scholarships. There have been several critiques from environmental/legal economists and even from economists who are in favor of the use of CBA. The critiques of CBA can be reduced to one statement:...

The literature on child welfare caseworkers’ accountability practices is fairly scant. This article observes and unravels accountability in child welfare practices using interview data. Findings show that child welfare caseworkers (frontline workers) face multiple and conflicting goals and mandates imposed upon them by their organizations, systemic...

The purpose of the paper is to explore the dynamics of accountability and to observe the politicisation of crisis management in the post-crisis within a Korean context. Also it explores whether the politicisation of crisis helps or hinders crisis management. By looking at changes and gaps in accountability demands in the Chenonan case in 2010, this...

The institutional economics is one of the approaches to explain the utility of contracting of local public service provision. This paper described and critiqued the assumptions underlying institutional economics as it is used in organization theories. It also explains whether and why these assumptions hold in public sector organizations. Finally, i...

There have been several arguments from scholars on the question of how we can attain sustainable development (SD). The aim of the article is to explore realistic policies and programmes for achieving sustainable auto manufacturing with a question of ‘how do we manufacture vehicles in a way that is sustainable?’ To discuss how we can achieve sustain...

This article examines the utilities of and challenges of policy design theory as a policy process theory. While there has been increasing attention to the democracy in policy process throughout the world, the discussion of policy design theory will encourage the theoretical debate and yield an insight for a practical direction of policy design. Whi...