About

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the research groups Politics & Public Governance (PPG, Departement of Political Sciences) and Computational Linguistics & Psycholinguistics (CLiPS, Departement of Linguistics) at the University of Antwerp. In 2019, I was awarded a senior postdoc grant from the Flemish Research Council to work on the project “Reputation and Structural Reforms of Public Organizations: Explaining Temporal Dynamics”. I also teach at the Antwerp Management School and University of Antwerp, and previously taught at Tilburg University.

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Interests

  • Strategic management and reputation
  • Organizational change, learning and innovation
  • Machine learning and artificial intelligence

Education

  • PhD in Public Management, 2016

    University of Antwerp

  • Master in Business Communication, 2012

    University of Ghent

  • Master in Political Communication, 2011

    University of Antwerp

Research interests

Strategic management and reputation

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Organizational change, learning and innovation

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Machine learning and artifical intelligence

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Publications

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Jan Boon, Jan Wynen, Bjorn Kleizen . What happens when the going gets tough? Linking change scepticism, organizational identification, and turnover intentions. In Public Management Review, 2020.

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Jan Boon, Heidi Salomonsen . Public Sector Organizations and Reputation. In Handbook of Public Sector Communication, 2019.

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Jan Boon, Koen Verhoest, Jan Wynen . What determines the audiences that public service organisations target for reputation management?. In Policy & Politics, 2019.

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Jan Boon, Steven Bauwens, Wannes Beets, Eva Wolf . Evaluatie participatietraject Werkgemeenschap. 2019.

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Jan Boon, Heidi Salomonsen, Koen Verhoest . A reputation for what, to whom, and in which task environment: A commentary. In Regulation & Governance, 2019.

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Jan Wynen, Jan Boon, Bjorn Kleizen, Koen Verhoest . How Multiple Organizational Changes Shape Managerial Support for Innovative Work Behavior: Evidence From the Australian Public Service. In Review of Public Personnel Administration, 2019.

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Tobias Bach, Jan Boon, Stefan Boye, Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen, Koen Verhoest, Kai Wegrich . In the Line of Fire: European Financial Regulators before, during, and after the Crisis. In der moderne staat, 2019.

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Jan Boon, Heidi Salomonsen, Koen Verhoest . The effects of organisational features on media attention for public organisations. In Policy & Politics, 2018.

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Jan Boon, Heidi Salomonsen, Koen Verhoest, Mette Østergaard Pedersen . Media and bureaucratic reputation: Exploring media biases in the coverage of public agencies. In The Blind Spots of Public Bureaucracy and the Politics of Non‐Coordination, 2018.

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Joachim Vandergraesen, Astrid Molenveld, Koen Verhoest, Jan Boon . Wendbare overheid. Aftoetsing, onderbouwing en verrijking van de Vlaamse hervormingspraktijk. Steunpunt Bestuurlijke Vernieuwing, 2018.

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Jan Boon . Moving the governance of shared service centres (SSCs) forward: juxtaposing agency theory and stewardship theory. In Public Money & Management, 2018.

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Jan Boon, Koen Verhoest, Bruno De Borger . Hiving off the non-essential: analysing which public organizations outsource administrative overhead. In International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2017.

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Jan Boon . Verantwoording en aansturing : de spanning tussen vertrouwen en prestatiemetingen. In Het tijdschrift voor de politie, 2017.

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Jan Boon, Koen Verhoest . On the Dynamics of Reform Resistance: Why and How Bureaucratic Organizations Resist Shared Service Center Reforms. In International Public Management Journal, 2017.

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Jan Boon, Jan Wynen . On the Bureaucracy of Bureaucracies: Analysing the Size and Organization of Overhead in Public Organizations. In Public Administration, 2017.

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Jan Boon, Koen Verhoest . By Design or by Drift: How, Where, and Why HRM Activities Are Organized in the Public Sector. In Review of Public Personnel Administration, 2016.

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Jan Boon, Koen Verhoest . On a Diet: Explaining Differences in Overhead among Public Agencies in the Era of Austerity. In Public Performance & Management Review, 2015.

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Koen Verhoest, Jan Boon, Inger De Wilde . Welke organisatievormen voor de samenwerking tussen gemeente en OCMW op het vlak van ondersteunende diensten?. In Vlaams Tijdschrift voor Overheidsmanagement, 2015.

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Koen Verhoest, Jan Rommel, Jan Boon . How Organizational Reputation and Trust May Affect the Autonomy of Independent Regulators: The Case of the Flemish Energy Regulator. In Organizational Reputation in the Public Sector, 2014.

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Astrid Molenveld, Jan Boon, Koen Verhoest . De doorwerking en effecten van besparingsmaatregelen in de Vlaamse administratie: enkele eerste beschrijvende en vergelijkende inzichten. In Vlaams Tijdschrift voor Overheidsmanagement, 2014.

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Teaching experience

Antwerp Management School

University of Antwerp

Tilburg University (NL)

Blogs

Last updated on May 20, 2020 6 min read

Why do some public agencies attract more media attention than others?

Many would agree that, at least in Western democracies, we live in what is referred to as “mediatised societies”. These are generally understood to be societies in which the media somehow penetrate and affect the way central institutions of our societies function. This includes the public agencies responsible for service delivery, regulation, policy formulation or providing subsidies. Not unlike their political counterparts which have been more intensely studied, many of the media departments of public agencies have witnessed a substantial professionalisation in recent years.

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