How pre‐ and postrecruitment factors shape role perceptions of European Commission officials
研究欧盟委员会临时官员的角色认知，发现教育背景等招聘前因素影响政府间和知识型角色认知，而任职时长等招聘后因素驱动超国家和部门角色认知。
Individuals' role perceptions are central guides to their behavior and choices as members of an organization. Understanding organizational dynamics thus requires knowledge about the determinants of such role perceptions, as well as whether—and when—organizations can influence them. This article brings forward a theoretical framework allowing for both prerecruitment ( extra organizational) and post‐recruitment ( intra organizational) determinants of individuals' role perceptions, and examines its empirical implications using a large‐ N data set of temporary officials in the European Commission. We find that intergovernmental and epistemic role perceptions are strongly linked to pre‐recruitment factors (such as educational and professional background), whereas postrecruitment factors (such as length of affiliation and embeddedness within the Commission) are the main driving force behind supranational and departmental role perceptions. This heterogeneity in the importance of pre‐ and postrecruitment factors for distinct role perceptions has important consequences for conceptualizing organizational change.