dr. C. Fischer (Caroline)

Assistant Professor Public Administration and Digital Transformation
BMS-HIB-PA
Capitool 15 114
c.fischer@utwente.nl
+31534894546
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Dr. Caroline Fischer is an Assistant Professor in the Public Administration section within the Faculty of Behavioral, Management & Social Sciences. Her work often employs a micro-level perspective on public administration with an emphasis on the motivation, values, attitudes, and behavior of public servants as well as citizens. She is particularly interested in topics related to error, risk, crisis and learning, human resource management in the public sector as well technological development in government.

Caroline is also engaged in interdisciplinary research, especially in the THT community, working on digital transformation in the healthcare sector. She is also the consortium leader of the Interreg-project BRIDGE, which studies cross-border resource pooling in the healthcare sector.

Since 2023, Caroline is a member of the Young Academy at the University of Twente.

Before joining BMS, she was a researcher at the Chair for Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Caroline obtained her summa cum laude Ph.D. with a dissertation on public sector knowledge management.

Caroline was a fellow of the program “Freies Wissen” (Free Knowledge) of Wikimedia Germany, the German Stifterverband and Volkswagen Foundation. For her work, she obtained third-party funding, among others, from Erasmus+, Interreg, the European Academy of Management, the German Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, and the German Friedrich-Naumann Stiftung.

Caroline is a scholar engaged in Open Science. She regularly shares her code and data.

Expertise

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

    • Public Sector
    • Workforce
    • Knowledge

  • Social Sciences

    • Public Utilities
    • Technological Change
    • Employees
    • Organizations

  • Computer Science

    • Knowledge-Sharing

Organisations

  • Resilience, crises, error, and risk management
  • Digitalization and new technologies in public organizations
  • Human resource management in the public sector
  • Collaboration and cooperation in public service delivery
  • Transformations in the Healthcare Sector
  • Experimental public administration research

Publications

2024

What Determines Civil Servants’ Error Response? Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment (2024)American review of public administration (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Fischer, C. & Weißmüller, K. S.https://doi.org/10.1177/02750740241267941Disentangling Risk Management and Error Management in the Public Sector: A Theoretical Framework (2024)American review of public administration, 54(6), 540-554. Tangsgaard, E. R. & Fischer, C.https://doi.org/10.1177/02750740241229996Introduction to the special issue ‘Towards a Multi-Level Understanding of Agile in Government: Macro, Meso and Micro Perspectives’ (2024)Information polity, 123-136. Fischer, C. & Neumann, O.https://doi.org/10.3233/ip-249007Motivated to share? Development and validation of a domain-specific scale to measure knowledge-sharing motives (2024)VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems, 54(4), 861-895. Fischer, C.https://doi.org/10.1108/vjikms-09-2021-0200Navigating Uncertainty: Risk Governance in Complex Organizations (2024)In International Encyclopedia of Business Management. Elsevier. Fischer, C. & Weißmüller, K. S.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-13701-3.00318-2The (next) savior has arrived? New technologies in the public sector and related citizens’ expectations (2024)Public Management and Governance Review, 1(1). Fischer, C. & Döring, M.https://doi.org/10.60733/PMGR.2024.05Behavioral approaches to social policy implementation (2024)[Working paper › Preprint]. Fischer, C. & Woo, S. Y.New technologies in the public sector and related citizens’ expectations (Germany and Austria) (2024)[Other contribution › Other contribution]. Fischer, C., Döring, M. & Willems, J.https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25594932

2023

How to turn workplace boredom into something positive: A theoretical framework of the ‘bright sides’ of boredom (2023)Human resource management review, 33(2). Article 100952. Schott, C. & Fischer, C.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2022.100952Resilience through digitalisation: How individual and organisational resources affect public employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)Public management review, 25(4), 808-835. Fischer, C., Siegel, J. & Proeller, I.https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2022.2037014

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University of Twente

Capitool 15 (building no. 78), room 114
Capitool 15
7521 PL Enschede
Netherlands

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