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Overview

Sergio Fernandez is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences, with a particular focus on business, management, and accounting. The main fields of study include Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting, with subfields emphasizing Public Administration, Strategy and Management, Political Science and International Relations, Gender Studies, and Communication.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics centered on public policy and administration research, including public procurement and policy, e-government and public services, knowledge management and sharing, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, local government finance and decentralization, as well as fiscal policy and economic growth.

Frequent publication venues for Fernandez include:

  • Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration
  • Public Personnel Management
  • Public Administration
  • Public Administration Review
  • Administration & Society

Key recent publications by Sergio Fernandez include:

  • "Conditions for open innovation in public organizations: evidence from Challenge.gov" (2020, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration)
  • "An Overlooked Cost of Contracting Out: Evidence From Employee Turnover Intention in U.S. Federal Agencies" (2020, Public Personnel Management)
  • "Who should we pay more? Exploring the influence of pay for elected officials and bureaucrats on organizational performance in South African local government" (2022, Public Administration)
  • "Job Vacancy and Organizational Performance: Are Senior Managers or Street-Level Bureaucrats Missed Most?" (2022, Public Administration Review)
  • "To what extent does corruption erode trust? evidence of reputational spillovers from ten countries in the Southern African development community" (2023, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration)

Fernandez collaborates frequently with other researchers in the field, including Taha Hameduddin, Mehmet Akif Demircioğlu, Gyeo Reh Lee, Shinwoo Lee, and Onkgopotse Senatla Madumo.

Best Publications

  • Managing Successful Organizational Change in the Public Sector

    Sergio Fernandez;Hal G. Rainey

  • Using Employee Empowerment to Encourage Innovative Behavior in the Public Sector

    Sergio Fernandez;Tima Moldogaziev

  • Employee Empowerment, Employee Attitudes, and Performance: Testing a Causal Model

    Sergio Fernandez;Tima Moldogaziev

  • Exploring the link between integrated leadership and public sector performance

    Sergio Fernandez;Yoon Jik Cho;James L. Perry

  • Exploring and Explaining Contracting Out: Patterns among the American States

    Jeffrey L. Brudney;Sergio Fernandez;Jay Eungha Ryu;Deil S. Wright

  • Performance Regimes Amidst Governance Complexity

    Donald P. Moynihan;Sergio Fernandez;Soonhee Kim;Kelly M. LeRoux

  • Developing and Testing an Integrative Framework of Public Sector Leadership: Evidence from the Public Education Arena

    Sergio Fernandez

  • Empowering Public Sector Employees to Improve Performance: Does It Work?

    Sergio Fernandez;Tima Moldogaziev

  • Will More Black Cops Matter? Officer Race and Police‐Involved Homicides of Black Citizens

    Sean Nicholson-Crotty;Jill Nicholson-Crotty;Sergio Fernandez;Sergio Fernandez

  • So Hard to Say Goodbye? Turnover Intention among U.S. Federal Employees

    David Pitts;John Marvel;Sergio Fernandez

  • Examining the Effects of Leadership Behavior on Employee Perceptions of Performance and Job Satisfaction

    Sergio Fernandez

  • Assessing the Past and Promise of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey for Public Management Research: A Research Synthesis

    Sergio Fernandez;William G. Resh;Tima Moldogaziev;Zachary W. Oberfield

  • Do Leadership Training and Development Make a Difference in the Public Sector? A Panel Study

    Brett Seidle;Sergio Fernandez;Sergio Fernandez;James L. Perry;James L. Perry

  • WHAT WORKS BEST WHEN CONTRACTING FOR SERVICES? AN ANALYSIS OF CONTRACTING PERFORMANCE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL IN THE US

    Sergio Fernandez

  • Understanding Employee Motivation to Innovate: Evidence from Front Line Employees in United States Federal Agencies

    Sergio Fernandez;David W. Pitts

  • Understanding Contracting Performance An Empirical Analysis

    Sergio Fernandez

  • Employee Empowerment and Turnover Intention in the U.S. Federal Bureaucracy

    Sun Young Kim;Sergio Fernandez;Sergio Fernandez

  • AN EXPLORATION OF WHY PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS ‘INGEST’ INNOVATIONS

    Sergio Fernández;Lois R. Wise

  • Government Contracts With Private Organizations Are There Differences Between Nonprofits and For-profits?

    Eva M. Witesman;Sergio Fernandez

  • Employee Empowerment and Job Satisfaction in the U.S. Federal Bureaucracy: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective

    Sergio Fernandez;Tima Moldogaziev

  • Exploring Variations in Contracting for Services Among American Local Governments: Do Politics Still Matter?

    Sergio Fernandez;Jay Eungha Ryu;Jeffrey L. Brudney

  • Employment, privatization, and managerial choice: Does contracting out reduce public sector employment?

    Sergio Fernandez;Craig R. Smith;Jeffrey B. Wenger

  • Under What Conditions do Public Managers Favor and Pursue Organizational Change

    Sergio Fernandez;David W. Pitts

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Pitts
David W. Pitts Urban Institute
Donald P. Moynihan
Donald P. Moynihan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeffrey L. Brudney
Jeffrey L. Brudney University of North Carolina Wilmington
Bradley E. Wright
Bradley E. Wright University of Georgia
James L. Perry
James L. Perry Indiana University
Kaifeng Yang
Kaifeng Yang Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sean Nicholson-Crotty
Sean Nicholson-Crotty Indiana University
Kelly LeRoux
Kelly LeRoux University of Illinois at Chicago

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