Tobin Im
South Korean scholar and professor
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Tobin Im (born Jan 7, 1961) is a scholar of public administration and a professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University. He specializes in public management, organization theory, and comparative administration.
| Born | January 7, 1961 |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | l'Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris |
| Known for | Government Competitiveness |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Public Administration |
| Institutions | Seoul National University George Washington University l'Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis |
Career
Im received his B.A. and M.P.A. from Seoul National University in 1983 and 1985. He completed his Ph.D. at the l'Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), earning his sociology doctorate in 1993. He joined the Seoul National Univ. faculty in 1999. He was a visiting professor at the George Washington University (2000), Chinese Young Men's College (2001), University of Otago (2002), l'Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (2005), Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (2006).[9] and George Mason University (2012). In 2015, he served as president of Korean Association of Public Administration,[10] for which now he is a chief editor since 2019.[11] He is also an editor of Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory[12] and Public Performance & Management Review.[13] The American Review of Public Administration conferred its annual Best ARPA Article award to Alfred Tat-Kei Ho and Tobin Im for "Challenges in Building Effective and Competitive Government in Developing Countries: An Institutional Logics Perspective." in 2016.[14] He received the Best Researcher Award in Seoul National University in 2017[15]
Tobin Im has become Dean of Graduate School of Public Administration (GSPA) at Seoul National University in 2018.[16] The Ministry of Education awarded him Outstanding Performance Award for Academic Support Project for "The Two Sides of Korean Administrative Culture: Competitiveness or Collectivism?"[17] GSPA ranks 11th in QS World University Rankings Social Policy & Administration in 2021.[18]
Research interest
Im is currently studying government competitiveness,[19] winning research grant by Korea Research Foundation. He creates a new concept, government competitiveness, which has been interchangeably used with a host of similar concepts, such as national competitiveness, government efficiency, and government effectiveness. Im serves as director of Center for Government Competitiveness developing a GC indicator which makes cross-national analyses available.
Publications
- Im, Tobin (1993). "L'administration de l'etat face a la decentralisation : l'évolution du système d'action des prefectures". Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris: 364–370.
- Im, Tobin (2003). "Bureaucratic Power and the NPM Reforms in Korea". International Review of Public Administration. 8 (1): 89–102. doi:10.1080/12294659.2003.10805020. S2CID 154306420.
- Im,Tobin (2008). "An Exploratory Study of Time Stress and Its Causes among Government Employees". Public Administration Review. 69 (1): 104–115. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2008.01944.x.
- Im,Tobin & Lee, Seung Jong (2012). "Does Management Performance Impact Citizen Satisfaction?". The American Review of Public Administration. 42 (4): 419–436. doi:10.1177/0275074011408589. S2CID 153652355.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Ho, A. & Im, T (2013a). "Challenges in Building Effective and Competitive Government in Developing Countries: An Institutional Logics Perspective". The American Review of Public Administration. first published online.
- Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen; Gregory Porumbescu; Boram Hong; Tobin Im (2013b). "The Effect of Transparency on Trust in Government: A Cross-National Comparative Experiment". Public Administration Review. 73 (4): 575–586. doi:10.1111/puar.12047. hdl:1874/302987.
- Tobin Im; Wonhyuk Cho; Greg Porumbescu; Jungho Park (2013c). "Revisiting Confucian Bureaucracy: Roots of the Korean Government's culture and competitiveness". Public Administration and Development. 33 (4): 286–296. doi:10.1002/pad.1656.
- Tobin Im, Jesse W.Campbell & Seyeong Cha (2014). "Internet, Trust in Government, and Citizen Compliance". Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 24 (3): 741–763. doi:10.1093/jopart/mus037. S2CID 73696408.