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Tobin Im

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Born (1961-01-07) January 7, 1961 (age 63)
NationalityKorean
Alma materl'Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
Known forGovernment Competitiveness
Scientific career
FieldsPublic Administration
InstitutionsSeoul National University
George Washington University
l'Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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.

Career

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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

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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

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  • 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.

References

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  1. ^ "Domestic Politics in South Korea; Staying Power". The Economist. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  2. ^ "외국 이론만 학문인가 " [Korea has to build her own theory in public administration] (in Korean). The Joongang Ilbo. 1 February 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  3. ^ "새 총리에 바란다 ① 자기반성 ② 책임총리 ③ 사회통합 ④ 개혁전념 " [Hopes for new prime minister] (in Korean). The MK news. 16 February 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  4. ^ "[서울시장 보선 D-16]박원순 무소속 후보 공약 검증 리포트 " [A Report on the Mayor of Seoul; did he fulfill his pledge?] (in Korean). The Dong-A daily news. 10 October 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  5. ^ "Morning Wave In Busan Special Interviews: "Do we trust our government?"". Basan e-FM. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  6. ^ "국회 미래연구원 설립은 시대착오적" [Anachronistic Future institute of National Assembly] (in Korean). Daily Korea. 17 December 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  7. ^ "을미년 국회가 꼭 해야 할 일" [National Assembly's Things to be done by next year] (in Korean). The MK Opinion. 1 January 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  8. ^ "[이슈토론]해양경찰청 해체" [[Debate]Dissolution of Korean Coast Guard] (in Korean). The MK Opinion. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  9. ^ "Indianapolis, Indiana University-Purdue University".
  10. ^ "Korean Association of Public Administration".
  11. ^ "임도빈 한국행정학회 회장 당선" [Tobin Im is elected president of Korean Association for Public Administration] (in Korean). Yunhap News Agency. 15 December 2013. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  12. ^ "Editorial Board".
  13. ^ "Public Performance & Management Review Editorial Board".
  14. ^ "Facebook page of The American Review of Public Administration". Facebook.
  15. ^ "[학술연구상 수상자 시리즈5] 정부경쟁력 비교시스템 수출국 대한민국_임도빈 교수 - 뉴스 - 서울대 소식".
  16. ^ "Homepage of GSPA".
  17. ^ "학술·연구지원사업 '우수성과' 50선 발표, 성과 공유 통한 '자긍심 고취'". 16 December 2020.
  18. ^ "QS World University Rankings for Social Policy & Administration 2021".
  19. ^ "Korea lags OECD average in disaster management". The Korea Herald. 5 January 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
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