Mehmet Akif Demircioglu

Mehmet Akif Demircioglu is an assistant professor at the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) at Carleton University in Canada. He is also an Executive Education Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS), an adjunct senior research fellow at the Asia Competitiveness Institute at NUS, a joint researcher at The Institute for Future Government at Yonsei University, a research fellow at the Institute for Development Strategies at Indiana University, and a fellow at the Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD) at Arizona State University.

He holds MPA and PhD degrees from Indiana University’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Bloomington. Before joining the SPPA, he was an assistant professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, for five years. His expertise is in public sector innovation, entrepreneurship, and social media from an international and comparative perspective. His work has been published in Research Policy, Journal of Technology Transfer, Governance, Small Business Economics, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, The American Review of Public Administration, Public Management Review, Government Information Quarterly, Public Performance & Management Review, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Policy & Society, and Industrial and Corporate Change, among others.

He is an associate editor for the Australian Journal of Public Administration and the International Journal of Public Administration. He received three research excellence awards (2018, 2019, 2020) from LKY School and the best teaching award (2015) from the O’Neill School of Public Affairs (2015). Previously, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Canberra (2015), Yonsei University (2016), Sciences Po (2018), Leiden University (2018), and German University of Administrative Sciences (2019), and visiting professor at Nazarbayev University’s the Graduate School of Public Policy (2018, 2022).

He was also trained at the International Winter School on Public Policy in France, the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR) at Syracuse University, CIDE in Mexico, the University of Bologna in Italy, the Hertie School of Governance in Germany, and the École Nationale d’Administration in France. During his graduate studies at Indiana University, he worked at the Indiana Business Research Center, the Urban Institute, the Wilson Center, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, and Turkey’s Office of Personnel Management.

• Hyesong Ha, Aarthi Raghavan*, and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2022. COVID-19 and Employee Productivity in the Public Sector. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Administration.
• Emre Cinar, Christopher Simms, Paul Trott, and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2022. Public Sector Innovation in Context: A Comparative Study of Innovation Types. Public Management Review
• Kim Moloney, Pablo Sanabria Pulido, and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2022. Interrogating Hegemonic Embraces: Representative Bureaucracy, Methodological Whiteness, and Non-West Exclusions. Public Administration Review. 
• Roberto Vivona*, Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, and David Audretsch. 2022. Costs of Intersectoral Collaborations. Journal of Technology Transfer.
• Lin Zhu* and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2022. National Approaches for Citizen Data Management in Response to COVID-19: An Overview and Implications of Contact Tracing Apps in 21 countries. Information Polity. 
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and Zeger van der Wal. 2022. Leadership and Innovation: What’s the Story? The Relationship between Leadership Support Level and Innovation Target. Public Management Review 24(8): 1289-1311.
• Faizus Sazzad*, V Priya Rajan*, and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2021. The Role of Leadership in Public Sector Innovation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Management of COVID-19 in Asian Countries. Frontiers in Public Health. 
• Aarthi Raghavan*, Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, and Serik Orazgaliyev. COVID-19 and the New Normal of Public Service: Understanding the meso and micro level changes. Sustainability 13(21), 11942
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2021. The Effects of Innovation Climate on Employee Job Satisfaction and Affective Commitment: Findings from Public Organizations. Review of Public Personnel Administration. 
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and Roberto Vivona*. 2021. The Relationship between Procedural Tools and Public Sector Innovation: Evidence from Public Procurement in Europe. Policy & Society. 40(3): 379-396.
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, Taha Hameduddin, and Colin Knox. 2021. Innovative Work Behaviors and Networking across Government. International Review of Administrative Sciences.
• Kohei Suzuki and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2021. Is Impartiality Enough? Government Impartiality and Citizens’ Perceptions of Public Service Quality. Governance 34(3):727-764.
• Aarthi Raghavan*, Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, and Araz Taeihagh. 2021. Public Health Innovation through Cloud Adoption: A Comparative Analysis of Drivers and Barriers in Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(1), 334
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and Roberto Vivona*. 2021. Depoliticizing the European Immigration Debate: How to Employ Public Sector Innovation to Integrate Migrants. Research Policy. 50 (2), 104150.
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2021. Sources of Innovation, Autonomy, and Employee Job Satisfaction in Public Organizations. Public Performance & Management Review 44(1): 155-186.
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and Farzana Chowdhury. 2021. Entrepreneurship in Public Organizations: The Role of Leadership Behavior. Small Business Economics 57(3): 1107-1123.
• Albert Meijer, C. William R. Webster, Frank Bannister, Colin J. Bennett, Kaiping Chen, Heungsuk Choi, J. Ignacio Criado, Maria Alexandra Cunha, Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, Mila Gasco-Hernandez, Paul Henman, Douglas Kimemia, Veiko Lember, Karl Löfgren, Luis F. Luna-Reyes, Ines Mergel, David Murakami Wood, Giorgia Nesti, Erico Przeybilovicz, Aarthi Raghavan*, Ola Svenonius, Rosamunde van Brakel, and Mete Yildiz. 2020. The COVID-19-crisis and the information polity: An Overview of Responses and Discussions in Twenty-One Countries from Six Continents. Information Polity. 
• Taha Hameduddin, Sergio Fernandez, and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2020. Conditions for Open Innovation in Public Organizations: Evidence from Challenge.gov. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Administration.
• Zeger Van der Wal and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2020. Special Issue: Public Sector Innovation in the Asia Pacific –Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities, Australian Journal of Public Administration. 79(3): 271-278.
• Zeger van der Wal and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2020. The Effects of Ethical Climate and Ethical Leadership on Realized Innovation. The Australian Journal of Public Administration. 79(3): 386-404
• Tommy H. Clausen, Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, and Gry A. Alsos. 2020. Intensity of Innovation in Public Sector Organizations: The Role of Push and Pull Factors. Public Administration, 98(1): 159-176.
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and David Audretsch. 2020. Conditions for Complex Innovations: Evidence from Public Organizations. Journal of Technology Transfer 45(3): 820–843 h
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2019. How Does Innovation in Government Persist? The Case of the Australian Government. Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Administration, 41(4): 217-229.
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2019. Public Sector Innovation: The Effects of Organizational and Demographic Context. Public Management Review, 22(12): 1852-1875
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, David B. Audretsch, and Timothy F. Slaper. 2019. Sources of Innovation and Innovation Type: Firm-Level Evidence from the United States. Industrial and Corporate Change. 28(6): 1365-1379
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and Chung-An Chen. 2019. Public Employees’ Use of Social Media: Its Impact on Need Satisfaction and Intrinsic Work Motivation. Government Information Quarterly, 36(1): 51-60;
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and David Audretsch. 2019. Public Sector Innovation: The Effects of Universities. Journal of Technology Transfer, 44(2): 596-614. 
• Kohei Suzuki and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2019. The Association between Administrative Characteristics and National-Level Innovative Activity: Findings from a Cross-National Study. Public Performance & Management Review, 42(4): 755-782.
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and Evan Berman. 2019. The Effects of Innovation Climate on Turnover Intention: Evidence from the Australian Public Service. The American Review of Public Administration Review, 49(5): 614-628.
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2018. Examining the Effects of Social Media Use on Job Satisfaction in the Australian Public Service: Testing Self-Determination Theory. Public Performance & Management Review, 41(2): 300-327.
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2018. The Effects of Empowerment Practices on Barriers to Innovation: Evidence from the Australian Public Service. International Journal of Public Administration, 41(15): 1302-1313 (Scopus)
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu and David Audretsch. 2017. Conditions for Innovation in Public Sector Organizations. Research Policy, 46(9): 1681-1691.
• Mete Yildiz, Cenay Babaoglu, and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2016. E-Government Education in Turkish Public Administration Graduate Programs: Past, Present, and Future. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 22(2): 287-302.
• Serkan Akilli, Cenay Babaoglu, and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2013. Current Developments of E-Government Education for the Insights of Researchers and Undergraduate Students. Akdeniz University IIBF. (Turkish).
• Mete Yildiz, Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, and Cenay Babaoglu. 2011. Teaching Public Policy to Undergraduate Students: Issues, Experiences, and Lessons in Turkey. Journal of Public Affairs Education, 17(3): 343-365.

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• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, Farzana Chowdhury, and Roberto Vivona*. 2020. Public Sector Entrepreneurship. Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Springer. Edited by Ali Farazmand.
• Roberto Vivona*, Mehmet Akif Demircioglu, and Aarthi Raghavan*. 2020. Innovative Skills for the Public Servant of the Future: What, Why, How, Where, and When? The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant. Edited by Helen Sullivan and Helen Dickinson.
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2019. David Audretsch: A Great Mind, An Outstanding Researcher, and A Humble Individual, (Festschrift for Prof. David Audretsch) From Industrial Organization to Entrepreneurship. Edited by Erik E. Lehmann & Max Keilbach. Springer, 439-442.
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2017. Organizational Innovation. Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Springer. Edited by Ali Farazmand, section editor: Nancy S. Lind.
• Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2016. Power and Empowerment. Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Springer. Edited by Ali Farazmand, section editors: Tansu Demir, Carla Flink and Chris Reddick.
• Yousueng Han and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2016. Accountability, Politics, and Power. Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, Springer. Edited by Ali Farazmand, section editors: Tansu Demir, Carla Flink and Chris Reddick.
• Cenay Babaoglu and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu. 2012. E-government Courses in the Curriculums of Turkish Public Administration Departments. Book Chapter on E-Government (Turkish).