Tobin Im

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.

Tobin Im[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Born (1961-01-07) January 7, 1961
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

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.

References
  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 Cost 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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