Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2021, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (6): 82-90.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.011

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The Micro-logic for Institutional Environment to Motivate Grassroots-level Public Servants' Entrepreneurship in the New Era

TAN Xinyu1, WU Weixu2   

  1. (1. School of Social and Public Administration, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China; 2. School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China)
  • Published:2021-11-18
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Abstract: The central government and various provinces or municipalities have continuously introduced institutional arrangement to motivate grassroots-level public servants' entrepreneurship. How does institutional environment in the new era motivate grassroots-level public servants' entrepreneurship? It is essential to investigate the incentive logic and boundary effects of the new era institutional environment on grassroots-level public servants' entrepreneurship. Based on a survey of 635 grassroots-level public servants from 173 government organizations in 4 provinces, it is found that institutional environment in the new era motivates grassroots-level public servants' entrepreneurship in the forms of regulatory pressure, normative pressure, and cognitive pressure. Meanwhile, PSM moderates the incentive effects of institutional environment on grassroots-level public servants in the new era. As a result, self-determination theory is extended to provide a valid interpretation for the joint incentive effect of institutional environment and public service motivation on grassroots-level public servants' entrepreneurship.

Key words: institutional environment; public service motivation; entrepreneurship; grassroots-level public servants

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