Wouter Vandenabeele

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Wouter Vandenabeele is a scholar working on Public Administration, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wouter Vandenabeele has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Public Administration, 17 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Wouter Vandenabeele's work include Public Policy and Administration Research (39 papers), Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (16 papers) and Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (15 papers). Wouter Vandenabeele is often cited by papers focused on Public Policy and Administration Research (39 papers), Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (16 papers) and Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (15 papers). Wouter Vandenabeele collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and United States. Wouter Vandenabeele's co-authors include Sangmook Kim, James L. Perry, Peter Leisink, Nina van Loon, Adrian Ritz, Annie Hondeghem, Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Gene A. Brewer, Francesco Paolo Cerase and Jolanta Palidauskaitė and has published in prestigious journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, Public Administration Review and The International Journal of Human Resource Management.

In The Last Decade

Wouter Vandenabeele

45 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Toward a public administration theory of public service motivation

2007 494 citations Wouter Vandenabeele Public Management Review profile →
Investigating the Structure and Meaning of Public Service Motivation across Populations: Developing an International Instrument and Addressing Issues of Measurement Invariance

2012 439 citations Sangmook Kim, Wouter Vandenabeele et al. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wouter Vandenabeele Belgium	22	2.1k	1.8k	1.4k	441	358	53	3.3k
Lotte Bøgh Andersen Denmark	31	1.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.8×	456 1.0×	388 1.1×	116	3.5k
Adrian Ritz Switzerland	22	1.5k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	336 0.8×	241 0.7×	67	2.6k
Lois Recascino Wise United States	13	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	562 1.3×	369 1.0×	23	3.4k
Bradley E. Wright United States	28	2.4k 1.2×	2.5k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	480 1.1×	456 1.3×	47	4.5k
Sally Coleman Selden United States	26	1.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	794 1.8×	470 1.3×	47	3.9k
Annie Hondeghem Belgium	19	1.2k 0.6×	989 0.6×	812 0.6×	435 1.0×	265 0.7×	140	2.5k
Robert K. Christensen United States	23	1.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	409 0.9×	162 0.5×	99	2.7k
Sergio Fernández United States	27	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	871 0.6×	596 1.4×	401 1.1×	45	3.3k
Jeannette Taylor Australia	22	1.1k 0.5×	903 0.5×	673 0.5×	307 0.7×	282 0.8×	46	2.0k
Julian Gould‐Williams United Kingdom	25	752 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	717 0.5×	189 0.4×	338 0.9×	34	3.0k

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Daniëls, Ellen, et al.. (2024). Towards a new conceptualisation of evidence-based human resource management. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness People and Performance. 12(3). 559–584.

Vandenabeele, Wouter & Jessica Breaugh. (2024). It takes two to tango: concepts and evidence of further integration of public service motivation theory and self-determination theory. International Public Management Journal. 28(1). 133–152. 5 indexed citations

Hernández, Enrique, et al.. (2023). ‘It’s a match!’: a discrete choice experiment on job attractiveness for public service jobs. Public Management Review. 27(1). 183–217. 7 indexed citations

Leisink, Peter, Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Gene A. Brewer, et al.. (2021). Introduction: Managing for public service performance: How people and values make a difference. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University).

Vandenabeele, Wouter, et al.. (2020). Government Calling Revisited: A Survey-Experiment on the Moderating Role of Public Service Motivation in Assessing Employer Attractiveness. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 559011–559011. 13 indexed citations

Loon, Nina van, Anne Mette Kjeldsen, Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Wouter Vandenabeele, & Peter Leisink. (2016). Only When the Societal Impact Potential Is High? A Panel Study of the Relationship Between Public Service Motivation and Perceived Performance. Review of Public Personnel Administration. 38(2). 139–166. 79 indexed citations

Loon, Nina van, Wouter Vandenabeele, & Peter Leisink. (2015). Clarifying the Relationship Between Public Service Motivation and In-Role and Extra-Role Behaviors: The Relative Contributions of Person-Job and Person-Organization Fit. The American Review of Public Administration. 47(6). 699–713. 69 indexed citations

Vandenabeele, Wouter. (2014). Explaining Public Service Motivation. Review of Public Personnel Administration. 34(2). 153–173. 94 indexed citations

Vandenabeele, Wouter, Gene A. Brewer, & Adrian Ritz. (2014). PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF PUBLIC SERVICE MOTIVATION RESEARCH. Public Administration. 92(4). 779–789. 96 indexed citations

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Loon, Nina van, Peter Leisink, & Wouter Vandenabeele. (2013). Talking the Talk of Public Service Motivation: How Public Organization Logics Matter for Employees' Expressions of PSM. International Journal of Public Administration. 36(14). 1007–1019. 36 indexed citations

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Kim, Sangmook, Wouter Vandenabeele, Bradley E. Wright, et al.. (2012). Investigating the Structure and Meaning of Public Service Motivation across Populations: Developing an International Instrument and Addressing Issues of Measurement Invariance. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 23(1). 79–102. 439 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vandenabeele, Wouter & Anne Mette Kjeldsen. (2011). The relationship between public service motivation and whistle-blowing intention: Interplay of individual and structural elements. 1 indexed citations

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Vandenabeele, Wouter. (2007). Toward a public administration theory of public service motivation. Public Management Review. 9(4). 545–556. 494 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vandenabeele, Wouter & Steven Van de Walle. (2007). International differences in public service motivation. 5 indexed citations

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Vandenabeele, Wouter. (2007). Leadership promotion of public values : public service motivation as a leadership strategy in the public sector. Lirias (KU Leuven). 2 indexed citations

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Vandenabeele, Wouter, et al.. (2006). Public service motivation in Nederland, Frankrijk, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Duitsland : gevalstudies gebaseerd op een comparatief literatuuronderzoek. Lirias (KU Leuven).

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Vandenabeele, Wouter, et al.. (2005). The Motivational Patterns of Civil Servants. Public Policy and Administration. 1(13). 52–63. 10 indexed citations

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Hondeghem, Annie & Wouter Vandenabeele. (2005). Values and Motivation in Public Administration: Public Service Motivation (PSM) in an International Comparative Perspective. 115(3). 463–479. 7 indexed citations

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Hondeghem, Annie, et al.. (2003). Management van topambtenaren in de Vlaamse overheid. Lirias (KU Leuven).

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Vandenabeele, Wouter & Annie Hondeghem. (2003). Government's calling : public service motivation as a decisive factor for government employment in a NPM era. 1 indexed citations

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