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Defining the impact of public administration programmes for public sector organizations KU Leuven
© The Author(s) 2014. In times of financial and economic crises, public organizations seem to cut their budgets for training and education, especially when the impact of a programme is questioned. Therefore, PA programmes need to clarify what impact can be expected and what individual and organizational processes are influencing the impact of a PA programme on the public sector. The fact that PA programmes are future- and organization-oriented ...
New Public Management, Public Service Bargains and the Challenges of Interdepartmental Coordination. A Comparative Analysis of Top Civil Servants in State Administration KU Leuven
In this article we are interested in how the coordinating role of top civil servants is related to the argument that country level differences in the adoption of NPM significantly alter the PSBs of top civil servants and consequently their capacity to accomplish interdepartmental coordination. A managerial PSB limits top civil servants’ role in interdepartmental coordination, as their focus will be on achieving goals set for their specific ...
Toward a public administration theory of public service motivation KU Leuven
Het onderzoek gaat op zoek naar de oorsprong engevolgen van wat in de bestuurskundige literatuur public service motivationwordt genoemd. Dit concept verwijst naar de motivatie van personen om zich inte zetten voor het algemeen belang en op die manier in te gaan tegen huneigenbelang. Dit type van motivatie functioneert er als arbeidsmotivatie naastander, meer klassieke motivatoren, zoals loon en werkzekerheid, en oefent eenpositieve invloed uit ...
The Economic and Legal Perspectives of Cloud Computing in Italian Public Administration and a Roadmap to the Adoption of g-Cloud in Italy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Cloud computing has reached a high level of adoption worldwide. In Italy, the adoption of Cloud Computing for the Public Administration is still far from the European and American best practices due to infrastructural, economic, legal and organisational culture reasons. The Italian Public Administration is facing enormous challenges in order to build a long term strategy capable of delivering the benefits required from the government and ...
We know the Yin but where is the Yang? Toward a balanced approach on common source bias in public administration scholarship Ghent University
Making public administration teaching and theory relevant KU Leuven
The academic field of Public Administration is quite diverse in Europe, ranging from applications of basic public law on the one hand to analyses of the hollow state on the other (where it is difficult to find any clear-cut public organisation). Nonetheless, in the light of societal changes towards late modernity, post-modern conditions and globalisation, there are some common challenges that sooner or later may knock at the door of all ...
Public administration meets information system research: analysing failure of intergovermental information systems via IS success models KU Leuven
When comparing success rates of information systems in the public and private sector, governments generally lag behind. Information system failure received limited coverage in public administration: not much research has examined whether private sector IS success models can be applied in a public sector context. This paper aims to contribute to this research gap. We investigate if two IS success models can be applied to study the causes of ...