Abstract
Drawing on the literature on public service motivation, we investigate the relationship between public service motivation and defensive decision-making. Further, we explore risk propensity and risk perception as potential antecedents of defensive decision-making. Based on survey data from 144 German public financial managers of municipalities and federal agencies, we find no significant direct relationship between public service motivation and defensive decision-making. However, we can show that risk propensity fully mediates the relationship between public service motivation and defensive decision-making. Our findings also indicate that beyond the public service motivation and individual risk propensity of public financial managers, their risk perception does influence their decision making.
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