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Public Management Review Volume 22, 2020 - Issue 7: Special issue: Public Service Motivation: Beyond the Boundary of Public Management. Guest editor: Neil Boyd
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Public service motivation and prosocial motivation: two sides of the same coin?

Adrian Ritza KPM Center for Public Management, University of Bern, Bern, SwitzerlandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Carina Schottb Utrecht University School of Governance, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NetherlandsORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3297-8607View further author information
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Christian Nitzlc Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, University of German Armed Forces Munich, Forces, Munich, GermanyView further author information
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Kerstin Alfesd Chair in Organization and Human Resource Management, ESCP Europe Berlin, Berlin, GermanyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6567-970XView further author information
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Pages 974-998 | Published online: 02 Apr 2020

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