dr. C. Fischer (Caroline)

Dr. Caroline Fischer is an Assistant Professor in the section Public Administration (PA) within the Faculty of Behavioral, Management & Social Sciences (BMS). In general, 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.

From 2023 on 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+, the German Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, and the European Academy of Management.

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

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Public Administration (PA)

Resilience, crises, error, and risk management

Digitalization and new technologies in public organizations
Human resource management in the public sector
Transformations in the Healthcare Sector
Experimental public administration research

Schott, C. , & Fischer, C. (2023). How to turn workplace boredom into something positive: A theoretical framework of the ‘bright sides’ of boredom. Human resource management review, 33(2), [100952]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2022.100952

Fischer, C., Hirsbrunner, S. D., & Teckentrup, V. (2022). Producing Open Data. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 8, [e86384]. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e86384

van Sintemaartensdijk, I. , Haandrikman, M. , Kip, H. , Fischer, C. , & Torenvlied, R. (2022). AI binnen 3RO: Toepassing en toekomst. Kwaliteit Forensische Zorg. https://kfz.nl/projecten/ai-binnen-3ro-toepassing-en-toekomst

Fischer, C., Proeller, I., Siegel, J., & Drathschmidt, N. (2022). Virtuelle Teams und Homeoffice. In T. Klenk, F. Nullmeier, & G. Wewer (Eds.), Handbuch Digitalisierung in Staat und Verwaltung (pp. 1-13). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23669-4_88-1

Fischer, C. (2022). Motivated to share? Development and validation of a domain-specific scale to measure knowledge-sharing motives. VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems. https://doi.org/10.1108/vjikms-09-2021-0200

Fischer, C., Siegel, J., & Proeller, I. (2022). Resilience through digitalisation: How individual and organisational resources affect public employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public management review. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2022.2037014

Fischer, C., & Döring, M. (2022). Thank you for sharing! How knowledge sharing and information availability affect public employees’ job satisfaction. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 35(1), 76-93. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPSM-10-2020-0290

Fischer, C., & Schott, C. (2022). Why people enter and stay in public service careers: the role of parental socialization and an interest in politics. International review of administrative sciences, 88(1), 59-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852319886913

Fischer, C., & Kraus, S. (2022). Digitale Transparenz. In T. Klenk, F. Nullmeier, & G. Wewer (Eds.), Handbuch Digitalisierung in Staat und Verwaltung (pp. 1-13). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23669-4_14-2

Fischer, C. (2022). Incentives Can’t Buy Me Knowledge: The Missing Effects of Appreciation and Aligned Performance Appraisals on Knowledge Sharing of Public Employees. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 42(2), 368-389. https://doi.org/https://osf.io/u8hfy/, https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X20986839

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