Bio

Geiguen Shin is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include public organizational management and performance, public finance, and public sector decision-making and judgment, often addressing economic development, welfare, and innovation at state/local levels. Specifically, his research generates novel insights about organizational behavior and performance in public sectors by exercising behavioral science insights and methods. His current research seeks to understand: 1) the effect of managing diversity on organizational performance; 2) the factors that mitigate unethical behaviors of organizational actors; 3) cognitive factors that would increase public service motivation; and 4) the effects of fiscally decentralized institutions on public service delivery. Focusing on substantial policy issues, he has actively engaged in doing research on the topics in law enforcement and education policies. His work has been published in journals such as Public Administration Review, Public Policy and Administration, Economic Development Quarterly, International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Urban Affairs, Social Science Journal, Continuum, International Political Science Review, and Korea Observer. He worked as Postdoctoral Research Associate in School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark. He has also been co-investigator on grants from the National Research Foundation of Korea. He received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Missouri, Columbia.