- E-mailZuzana.Murdoch@uib.no
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Zuzana Murdoch is professor in Public Administration and member of the research group "Knowledge, Politics and Organization" at the University of Bergen in Norway. She works, among other things, on the role of organizations' temporal characteristics in complex collaborative networks, the drivers of socialization and adaptation processes in (inter)national bureaucrats, as well as questions related to organizational stigma.
Professor Murdoch has published extensively in journals including Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Public Administration Review, Public Administration, Governance, Journal of European Public Policy, European Union Politics, European Journal of Political Research, and European Journal of International Relations. Her ORCID profile can be accessed here.
Main research fields: Temporality, Network Governance, Representative Bureaucracy, Socialization, European Union Politics.
Selected main publications:
Geys, B. Z. Murdoch and R. Sørensen (2023), Public Employees as Elected Politicians: Assessing Direct and Indirect Substantive Effects of Passive Representation. The Journal of Politics, forthcoming.
Geys, B., Z. Murdoch and R. J. Sørensen (2022), Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007-2019). Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 32 (2), 326-341.
Kvåle, G. and Z. Murdoch (2022). Shame On You! Unpacking the Individual and Organizational Implications of Engaging with a Stigmatized Organization. Journal of Management Studies, 59 (8), 2024-2066.
Kvåle, G. and Z. Murdoch (2022), Making Sense of Stigmatized Organizations: Labelling Contests and Power Dynamics in Social Evaluation Processes. Journal of Business Ethics, 178, 675-693.
Murdoch, Z., S. Connolly, H. Kassim and B. Geys (2022), Legitimacy Crises and the Temporal Dynamics of Bureaucratic Representation. Governance, 35 (1), 65-82.
Murdoch, Z., M. Gravier and S. Gänzle (2022), International public administration on the tip of the tongue: Language as a feature of representative bureaucracy in the Economic Community of West African States. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 88 (4), 1086-1104.
Geys, B., S. Connolly, H., Kassim and Z. Murdoch (2020), Follow the Leader? Leader Succession and Staff Attitudes in Public Sector Organizations. Public Administration Review, 80 (4), 555-564.
Murdoch, Z., Kassim, H., S. Connolly and B. Geys (2019), Socialization and Attitude Change in Intergovernmental Organizations: Evidence from a Two-wave Survey in the European Commission. European Journal of International Relations, 25(3), 852-877.
Murdoch, Z., S. Connolly and H. Kassim (2018), Administrative Legitimacy and the Democratic Deficit of the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy, 25(3), 389-408.
Murdoch, Z. (2015), Organisation Theory and the Study of EU Institutions: Lessons and Opportunities, Organization Studies, 36(12), 1675-1692.
Course development and teaching
Zuzana Murdoch is responsible for developing and teaching courses at the graduate level in Organization Theory (GOV320), Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (GOV321; GOV323, as well as a state-of-the-art course in Knowledge, Politics and Organization (GOV327). Previously, she also taught courses in EU foreign policy, the European Union Institutions and Politics, as well as Transnational Governance.
PhD Supervision
Professor Murdoch is currently co-supervisor for one PhD student, Laro Canoura Gonzalez. His work studies the role of organizations' temporal characteristics in mandated governance networks.
- (2023). Staff Reallocations and Employee Attitudes towards Organizational Aims: Evidence using Longitudinal Data from the European Commission . Public Management Review.
- (2023). Public Employees as Elected Politicians: Assessing the Substantive Effects of Passive Representation. Journal of Politics.
- (2021). Shame On You! Unpacking the Individual and Organizational Implications of Engaging with a Stigmatized Organization. Journal of Management Studies. 43 pages.
- (2021). Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007-2019). Journal of public administration research and theory. 326-341.
- (2021). Making Sense of Stigmatized Organizations: Labelling Contests and Power Dynamics in Social Evaluation Processes. Journal of Business Ethics. 19 pages.
- (2021). Legitimacy Crises and the Temporal Dynamics of Bureaucratic Representation. Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions. 65-82.
- (2021). International Public Administration on the Tip of the Tongue: Language as a Feature of Representative Bureaucracy in ECOWAS. . International Review of Administrative Sciences.
- (2020). Follow the Leader? Leader Succession and Staff Attitudes in Public Sector Organizations. Public Administration Review. 555-564.
- (2018). Lobbying cycles in Brussels: Evidence from the rotating presidency of the Council of the European union. European Union Politics. 597-616.
- (2018). How pre- and post-recruitment factors shape role perceptions of European Commission officials. Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions. 85-101.
- (2018). Do international institutions matter? Socialization and international bureaucrats. European Journal of International Relations. 852-877.
- (2018). Administrative legitimacy and the democratic deficit of the European Union. Journal of European Public Policy. 389-408.
- (2017). Identity, threat aversion, and civil servants’ policy preferences: Evidence from the European Parliament. Public Administration. 1009-1025.
- (2016). Representative bureaucracy and seconded national government officials in the European Commission. Regulation & Governance. 335-349.
- (2015). Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics. Politics and Governance. 26-36.
- (2015). Organization Theory and the Study of European Union Institutions: Lessons and Opportunities. Organization Studies. 1675-1692.
- (2015). On Trojan Horses and revolving doors: Assessing the autonomy of national officials in the European Commission. European Journal of Political Research. 249-270.
- (2014). Institutional dynamics in international organisations: Lessons from the recruitment procedures of the European External Action Service. Organization Studies. 1793-1811.
- (2014). Building foreign affairs capacity in the EU: The recruitment of member state officials to the European External Action Service (EEAS). Public Administration. 71-86.
- (2013). Contracted Government: Unveiling the European Commission's Contracted Staff. West European Politics. 1-21.
- (2012). Negotiating the European External Action Service (EEAS): Analyzing the External Effects of Internal (Dis)Agreement. Journal of Common Market Studies. 1011-1027.
- (2012). Instrumental Calculation, Cognitive Role-Playing, or Both? Self-Perceptions of Seconded National Experts in the European Commission. Journal of European Public Policy. 1357-1376.
- (2010). Measuring the 'Bridging' versus 'Bonding' Nature of Social Networks: A Proposal for Integrating Existing Measures. Sociology. 523-540.
- (2008). How to make head or tail of ‘bridging’ and ‘bonding’?: addressing the methodological ambiguity. British Journal of Sociology. 435-454.
- (2013). The Origins of Common Action Capacities. Observations on the recruitment of Member States’ diplomats and officials to the European External Action Service (EEAS). 1. 1. .
- (2021). Introduction and Q& A.
- (2021). Workshop til AORG326 - politisk organisering og flernivåstyring.
- (2017). Likestillingsbyråkratiene: Europeisering i nordisk kontekst?
- (2018). JEPP blog post: Administrative legitimacy and the democratic deficit of the European Union. JEPP Online.
- (2015). The Autonomy of National Officials in the European Commission. Politics and Policy journal blog.
- (2015). National officials working for the Commission display a surprising amount of independence from their own governments. EUROPP - European Politics and Policy.
- (2021). "The Dos and Don'ts of Engaging with a Stigmatized Organization". managementstudiesinsights.com.
- (2013). 'Making the Grade, Keeping the Gate': The recruitment of member-state diplomats to the European External Action Service (EEAS). DSEU Policy Papers.
- (2021). Leadership of organisations: Theory and evidence from the development of Norwegian scenic routes. 20 pages.
- (2019). Bureaucracy of Gender Equality: Europeanisation in Nordic Context? 19 pages.
- (2015). The temporary Commission bureaucrat. 20 pages.
- (2015). The advance of a European executive order in foreign policy? Recruitment practices in the European External Action Service. 18 pages.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
Zuzana Murdoch is a Work Package leader in the HorizonEurope "DemoTrans" project (ca. 2.7 mill EUR; 2022-2026) and principal investigator of the Norwegian Research Council project: "Longitudinal perspectives on local, central and supranational public bureaucracies" (ADM-IN-TIME; 1,070 mill. NOK; 2021-2023). Her work in the former project concentrates on the temporal characteristics of network governance members, while the latter project takes an explicitly longitudinal approach to the study of public bureaucracies.
She is currently also involved in three other research projects:
- A first project studies the roles, values, and attitudes of (inter)national civil servants. This is joint work with Hussein Kassim (University of East Anglia), Sara Connolly (Norwich Business School), Benny Geys (BI Norwegian Business School), and Susan Webb Yackee (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- A second project - joint work with Magali Gravier (Copenhagen Business School) - explores the recruitment and decision-making behaviour of public employees through the theory of Representative Bureaucracy.
- A third project - joint work with Gro Kvåle (University of Agder) - studies the social negotiation processes underlying the development and re-construction of organizational stigma.