The effects of legal versus business education on decision making in public administrations with a Weberian tradition

Rosengart, Tim; Hirsch, Bernhard; Nitzl, Christian

doi:10.1007/s40685-018-0081-3

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“…Professions provide sources of collective knowledge that stimulate innovation (Rashman, Withers, and Hartley ; Walker ), and professional associations have been found to promote the adoption of innovations in the United States (Balla ; Berry ). There have been empirical studies on the impacts of economic versus legal education on decision‐making in the education literature, but few have examined the influence of university education on public officials’ decision‐making in public management (Rosengart, Hirsch, and Nitzl ).…”

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Politicization, Bureaucratic Legalism, and Innovative Attitudes in the Public Sector

Lapuente

Suzuki

2020

Public Administration Review

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Previous studies have identified institutional, organizational, and individual factors that promote innovation in public organizations. Yet they have overlooked how the type of public administration-and the type of administrators-is associated with innovative attitudes. Using two large, unique comparative data sets on public bureaucracies and public managers, this article examines how bureaucratic politicization and legalistic features are associated with senior public managers' attitudes toward innovation in 19 European countries. Results of multilevel analysis indicate that the bureaucratic politicization of an administration and the law background of public managers matter. Public managers working in politicized administrations and those whose education includes a law degree exhibit lower pro-innovation attitudes (i.e., receptiveness to new ideas and creative solutions and change orientation). Evidence for Practice• Senior public managers' attitudes toward innovation vary significantly across countries.• The results of this study indicate that the features of a national bureaucracy and the educational background of public managers matter for pro-innovation attitudes. • Senior managers working in more politicized bureaucracies and those with a legal education background show lower tolerance for new ideas and creative solutions, and they are less willing to take actions that might upset the status quo. • Policy makers should consider personnel systems and the individual educational background of civil servants as significant factors that encourage favorable attitudes toward innovation.

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Politicization, Bureaucratic Legalism, and Innovative Attitudes in the Public Sector

Lapuente

Suzuki

2020

Public Administration Review

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“…For creating this measurement, we ranked the choices according the profit. The adjusted decision cases (Rosengart et al 2019) are displayed in the appendix (Tables 5, 6, 7) of this text.…”

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“…In line with Lüthje (2008), Cipriani et al (2009), Brosig et al (2010) and Rosengart et al (2019), we use a questionnaire design that incorporates our decision cases to generate a dataset that allows us to empirically test the research hypotheses of this study. To control for externalities and to increase the comparability of our student samples, we decided to distribute our questionnaire only among students from the faculties of law and business of one German university with a long history in teaching law but also business administration.…”

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“…Their academic discipline teaches them also strong social skills (e.g. argumentation; interviewing; negotiation) but it neglects to acquaint its students with microeconomic theory and/or the concept of economic efficiency (Rosengart et al 2019;Korioth 2006). In contrast with legal education, business education faces much less regulation (see also Table 1).…”

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“…Of course, we were not able to ask all of them to participate in our study. We therefore decided to ask law and business students of one of the biggest state-owned university in Germany to participate in our study.4 We used the same student sample as inRosengart et al (2019).…”

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Self-selection and socialisation effects of business and legal studies

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To explore the effect of business and legal studies on the resolution of trade-offs between efficiency considerations and fairness concerns, we distributed a survey with three decision cases to freshman and senior business and law students. Our results show that business students, in direct comparison with subjects who study law, make decisions more in accordance with economic theory. Studying business administration leads to decisions that are based more on efficiency criteria, while legal education appears to lead individuals making decisions that are more based on social criteria. Our findings reveal the impact of self-selection and socialization effects on decision making. For business ethics education, this result matters because moral decision making can be influenced during studies.

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To innovate or not—Exploring individual antecedents of innovative thinking among Indian bureaucrats

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Kakani,

Danish

2023

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One way for a developing country to quickly meet the socio‐economic standards of the developed world is to seamlessly integrate science and technology in prudent public policymaking that enables such standards. We study the antecedents of innovative thinking among public administrators through the ordered logit model. Data was collected from 218 public administrative leaders. Innovative thinking as a competency is not gendered. Age and the education background seem to affect innovative thinking marginally. We contribute to cementing our understanding of the individual‐level antecedents affecting innovation as a competency for a complex context like India. Practical and policy implications of our findings include recruiting relatively young officers into service and providing foundational training or courses to officers from arts and law backgrounds, as they seemed to have slightly lower levels of innovative thinking.

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The effects of legal versus business education on decision making in public administrations with a Weberian tradition

Cited by 11 publications

References 66 publications

Politicization, Bureaucratic Legalism, and Innovative Attitudes in the Public Sector

Politicization, Bureaucratic Legalism, and Innovative Attitudes in the Public Sector

Self-selection and socialisation effects of business and legal studies

To innovate or not—Exploring individual antecedents of innovative thinking among Indian bureaucrats

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