Research

1.  Baek, J. (forthcoming). Motivated to exhaustion? Public service motivation, curvilinear strain, and the buffer of collaborative culture. International Public Management Journal.

2. Baek, J., & Han, Y. (2026). The double edge of public service motivation: Promoting and preventing unethical pro-organizational behavior through organizational identification and ethical leadership. Review of Public Personnel Administration, online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X261438161

3. Park, J. W., Baek, J., & Cho, Y. J. (2025). Does performance rating discrepancy mediate the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and job satisfaction? A comparative study of public and private sectors. Public Personnel Management, 55(2), 224-253. https://doi.org/10.1177/00910260251369528

4. Baek, J., & Cho, Y. J. (2024). How do perceptions of government justice affect social inclusion? Focusing on the mediating effects of trust in government and trust in society. The Korean Journal of Public Administration, 33(1): 1-32.

5. Baek, J., & Cho, Y. J. (2023). Determinants of innovative behaviors of public officials in South Korea. Korean Public Administration Review, 57(4): 29-65.

6. Baek, J., & Cho, Y. J. (2023). Does citizenship pressure sustainably promote organizational citizenship behavior? Focusing on the mediating role of job exhaustion. Korean Public Personnel Administration Review, 22(4): 99-127. 

Journal Manuscripts

1. Baek, J., & Hong, S. Designing for performance: How goal clarity and autonomy interact across public and private organizations. Under review at Public Personnel Management.

2. Baek, J., & O’Halloran, J., III. When values are translated: A Foucauldian account of algorithmic governance and the Minnowbrook tradition. Under review at Perspectives on Public Management and Governance.

Conference Proceedings Manuscripts

All manuscripts listed below are under review for inclusion in the Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).

1. Baek, J., & Lee, J. Routinized use of shared data: Evidence from government officials in Korea.

2. Baek, J., O’Halloran, J., III, & Chen, Y.-C. No perfect rule: Value pluralism, bounded rationality, and the dynamics of AI governance failure.

3. O’Halloran, J., III, Baek, J., Choi, S., Burk, A., Chen, Y.-C., & Lee, J. Scale-of-model does not fix scale-of-place: A closed-book LLM knowledge audit of U.S. municipalities.

4. O’Halloran, J., III, Burk, A., Choi, S., Baek, J., Chen, Y.-C., & Lee, J. The platform is the unit of convergence: Vendor form-isomorphism in municipal web governance.

5. O’Halloran, J., III, Baek, J., Choi, S., Burk, A., Chen, Y.-C., & Lee, J. Posted, legible, known: One scale-stratification of the digital municipal state. 

1. Sung, W., Baek, J., & Lee, J. The effects of telework, Supervisory Control, and Flexibility-oriented Culture on Task Performance in Government Organizations: Evidence from Korean Civil Servants. Manuscript in preparation for submission to Public Administration Review.

2. O’Halloran, J., III, & Baek, J. Information structure and the tail of crisis response: A multi-domain typology. Manuscript in preparation for submission to Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

3. Baek, J., & Jo, G. Uneven realization of administrative e-participation opportunities: Digital inclusion across PC and mobile platforms in Korea. Manuscript in preparation for submission to Information Technology for Development.

4. Jong, J., Baek, J., Lee, J., & Rho, E. Preparing Public HRM for AI: Age-cohort and managerial differences in concerns, expectations, and skill priorities. Manuscript in preparation for submission to Public Personnel Management.

5. Baek, J., & Lee, J. Who understands algorithmic decisions? Citizen-side algorithmic legibility and the cognitive foundations of accountability. Manuscript in progress.

6. Baek, J. When do local governments formalize AI policy? Institutional pressures and perceived organizational benefits of AI. Manuscript available upon request.

7. Baek, J., & Moon, M. J. Navigating the shift: Exploring governmental and bureaucratic characteristics shaping public service delivery preferences. Manuscript available upon request.

8. Baek, J. Revisiting public leadership in the age of AI: E-leadership, public value, and algorithmic governance. Interview protocol finalized; data collection pending.

9. Baek, J. Constructing multi-dimensional accountability in AI-assisted decision making: A qualitative study of local government officials. Interview protocol finalized; data collection pending.

10. Baek, J. Public service motivation, network structures, and the widespread adoption of AI in public organizations. Research design in progress.