This paper will contribute to a growing body of research on the concept of public service motivation and its effects. It addresses two important though still largely unexplored questions: How stable or dynamic are prosocial attitudes, and do differences among employees or the individual changes...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to improve understanding of the use of performance information in the public sector. Design/methodology/approach – The article is based on a comparative case study in the field of German childcare administration. Two cities have been selected based on...

This paper will contribute to a growing body of research on the concept of public service motivation and its effects. It addresses two important though still largely unexplored questions: How stable or dynamic are prosocial attitudes, and do differences among employees or the individual changes...