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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

Introduction to the special issue ‘Towards a Multi-Level Understanding of Agile in Government: Macro, Meso and Micro Perspectives’, 123-136. Fischer, C. & Neumann, O.https://doi.org/10.3233/ip-249007Navigating Uncertainty: Risk Governance in Complex OrganizationsIn Reference Module in Social Sciences. 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. Fischer, C. & Döring, M.https://doi.org/10.60733/PMGR.2024.05Disentangling Risk Management and Error Management in the Public Sector: A Theoretical Framework, 540-554 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Tangsgaard, E. R. & Fischer, C.https://doi.org/10.1177/02750740241229996New technologies in the public sector and related citizens’ expectations (Germany and Austria). 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, 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, 808-835. Fischer, C., Siegel, J. & Proeller, I.https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2022.2037014Behavioural approaches to public management and governanceIn Public Management and Governance: Fourth Edition (pp. 66-76). Routledge. Kalucza, J. & Fischer, C.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003282839-7Change Agents & Public Sector Digitalization: The Role of Social Support and Leading from the Bottom. Fischer, C., Breaugh, J. & Jakob, K.https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.17877abstract

2022

Producing Open Data, Article e86384. Fischer, C., Hirsbrunner, S. D. & Teckentrup, V.https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e86384

Research profiles

Courses academic year 2023/2024

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