Scholars in the field of public administration are operating in an increasingly globalising world in which people and polities enjoy an unprecedented degree of connectivity irrespective of their geographical location. The enormity of the global spread of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has brought this into clear focus. The purpose of this article is to highlight three trajectories for globalising public administration research and theory. The first trajectory is to build generalisable theories to enhance global applicability. The second is to be more inclusive of diverse perspectives in the mainstream of public administration scholarship. The final trajectory is to scale up the lens of inquiry beyond the nation-state to include global governance actors and organisations. Research efforts that test a universal measurement scale of public service motivation demonstrate progress in the direction of generalisable theory. The broad and diverse body of research on electronic government typifies a decisively inclusive research area. At the same time, the expansion of research on policy networks to the global governance context provides an example along the scaling-up trajectory. The three-trajectory approach outlined in this article provides for a more comprehensive understanding of what it means for public administration research and theory to globalise.

公共管理领域的学者正在一个日益全球化的世界中运作，在这个世界中，无论其地理位置如何，人们和政界都享有前所未有的连通性。2020年COVID-19大流行在全球范围内的巨大蔓延使这一点成为重点。本文的目的是突出全球化行政管理研究和理论全球化的三个轨迹。第一条轨迹是建立可推广的理论以增强全球适用性。第二是在公共行政奖学金的主流中更加包容各种观点。最终的轨迹是将调查范围扩大到民族国家以外，以包括全球治理参与者和组织。测试公共服务动机的通用衡量尺度的研究工作证明了可推广理论的发展。电子政务的广泛而多样的研究代表了决定性的包容性研究领域。同时，关于政策网络的研究扩展到全球治理环境提供了沿扩大轨迹的示例。本文概述的三轨方法使人们对公共行政研究和理论全球化的含义有了更全面的了解。将政策网络的研究扩展到全球治理环境提供了一个沿扩大轨迹的例子。本文概述的三轨方法使人们对公共行政研究和理论全球化的含义有了更全面的了解。将政策网络的研究扩展到全球治理环境提供了一个沿扩大轨迹的例子。本文概述的三轨方法使人们对公共行政研究和理论全球化的含义有了更全面的了解。