Nationality Korean Name Tobin Im | Alma mater Sciences Po Fields Public administration | |
Born January 7, 1961 (age 63) ( 1961-01-07 ) Institutions Seoul National UniversityGeorge Washington Universityl'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de ParisIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Known for Government Competitiveness | ||
Tobin Im(born Jan 7, 1961) is a scholar of public administration and a professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University. He specializes in public management, organization theory, and comparative administration.
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Career
Im received his B.A. and M.P.A. from Seoul National University in 1983 and 1985. He completed his Ph.D. at the l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), earning his sociology doctorate in 1993. He joined the Seoul National Univ. faculty in 1999. He was a visiting professor at the George Washington University (2000), Chinese Young Men’s College (2001), University of Otago (2002), l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (2005), Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (2006). and George Mason University(2012). He is a member of Korean Association of Public Administration, for which he serves as president in 2015. The American Review of Public Administration confered its annual Best ARPA Article award to Alfred Tat-Kei Ho and Tobin Im for “Challenges in Building Effective and Competitive Government in Developing Countries: An Institutional Logics Perspective." in 2016.
Research interest
Im is currently studying government competitiveness, winning research grant by Korea Research Foundation. He creates a new concept, government competitiveness, which has been interchangeably used with a host of similar concepts, such as national competitiveness, government efficiency, and government effectiveness. Im serves as director of Center for Government Competitiveness developing a GC indicator which makes cross-national analyses available.