从模仿到自主:中国语境下的公共服务动机研究

From Imitation to Autonomy: Research on Public Service Motivation in the Chinese Context

公共服务动机成为近年来公共管理领域的研究热点之一。国内的公共服务动机研究大体上经历了三个阶段:最初是对公共服务动机理论的介绍,主要集中在对公共服务动机的起源、概念、结构、测量方法等基本问题上;第二阶段主要集中在用西方已有的公共服务动机理论结合中国获得的数据进行验证性研究,证实了公共服务动机在中国同样是客观存在的,这成为中国公共服务动机研究的本土化尝试;第三个阶段是日益走向自主化,这主要体现在试图用中国文化语境下的概念来进行理论建构。中国语境下的公共服务动机研究正由模仿走向自主,要走向完全自主化,建构起独属于中国文化意义上的公共服务动机理论,并使这一理论能够体系化,还需要进行深入研究。

Public service motivation has become one of the research hotspots in the field of public administration. Research on public service motivation in China has gone through three stages in general. At first, it was an introduction to the theory of public service motivation, mainly focusing on the origin, concept, structure, measuring method, and other basic issues of public service motivation. The second stage mainly focused on proving that public service motivation also exists objectively in China by verifying research combining theories of public service motivation that had existed in the West and the data obtained in China, which becomes a localized attempt of research on public service motivation in China. The third stage was increasingly towards autonomization, which is mainly reflected in the attempt of theoretical construction with concepts in the context of Chinese culture. Research on public service motivation in the Chinese context is moving from imitation to autonomy. In order to move towards complete autonomization, it is necessary to construct the theory of public service motivation in the sense of Chinese culture, and to systematize it.