...Tobias Polzer; Levi Gårseth-Nesbakk; Pawan Adhikari Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a global overview of the adoption status of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs) in the different contexts of developed and developing countries on central government level...

... of this paper is to explore the factors that affect the adoption and implementation of projects in the context of developing countries. Design/methodology/approach A multiple case holistic design is employed to analyze 19 select projects across several developing countries to identify and pool clusters...

.... Thus, this paper is one of the few to examine this issue using the mixed methods approach and more so from a developing country’s perspective. The paper proceeds as follows: first we review the literature on sensegiving, and then discuss the framework of Gioia and Chittipeddi (1991) . Next we focus...

... that engaging citizens through co-production, as is already being done in developed countries in the fields of care-giving, waste management, healthcare and community policing, could provide a successful strategy. The purpose of this paper is to examine how public water facilities are being managed to improve...

... matrix; q the number of indicators. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Developing Countries Emerging markets Alliances Economic growth Private sector The 18-day nationwide sit-ins at the main squares of Egyptian cities at the dawn of 2011 caught the world off guard...

... Developing countries Ghana Public sector organizations Customer satisfaction Recent developments have put public organisations under increasing competitive and financial pressures (Ghobadian and Ashworth, 1994 ; Day et al., 1998). Trends such as commercialisation, compulsory competitive...

... The study finds that the 100‐days rapid change model is partly applicable to the African public water sector, given the right conditions. Practical implications The findings compose a motive and guidance for policy makers and public sector managers in developing countries to undertake 100‐days rapid...

... and develop the competencies necessary to thrive in these competitive markets. This paper, drawing on the resource‐based view, aims to identify the pre‐reform capabilities of public sector organisations in India and similar developing country contexts that would be relevant even in the post‐reform context...

... and Barcham, 2004 , p. 18). Public administration Developing countries Employment contracts Public sector organizations Before 1990, it had become established tradition in independent Samoa that senior civil service positions were filled by Public Service Commission appointment (in theory...

.... Leadership, team‐work and continuous monitoring were the key factors that facilitated implementation of 5‐S based TQM. Practical implications The 5‐S system‐based TQM appears to be a feasible and promising system to initiate management improvement of public hospitals in developing countries...

... for low‐income developing countries such as Bangladesh who are struggling with their administrative reforms. Originality/value The value of the paper lies in clearly delineating the factors of success and failure and relating these to concrete cases on a comparative basis. More importantly, analyses...

... revolutions” may fail in a constantly changing transitional environment. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Performance measures Local government Developing countries Serbia The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 initiated the most serious social re‐engineering seen during...

...Michael O'Donnell; Mark Turner Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore the export of new public management (NPM) to developing countries and to describe and evaluate the introduction of these initiatives in very different environments from their origins. Design/methodology/approach...

... implementations. Design/methodology/approach The paper follows a case study approach for developing the concept of excellent e‐governance. It first conceptually differentiates between e‐government and e‐governance and describes the status of e‐governance in developing countries. It then differentiates between...

...Dima Jamali The concept of public private partnerships (PPPs) has attracted worldwide attention and acquired a new resonance in the context of developing countries. PPPs are increasingly heralded as an innovative policy tool for remedying the lack of dynamism in traditional public service delivery...

...Khan Shahadat Procurement by executing agencies, statutory organisations or departments in developing countries responsible for procurement against aid‐funded projects, has received little attention from academic researchers. This study found that executing agencies’ buying decisions are primarily...

...Alvin G. Wint; Densil A. Williams This study examines the efforts of many developing countries to promote their economies as sites for foreign direct investment. It develops a model of determinants of foreign direct investment flows to test the extent to which countries are able to differentially...

... 2001 Public administration Bureaucracy Developing countries Service delivery systems Urban environment Imagine a city in the developing world in which the policing is provided by a private security agency under contract, the educational facilities are maintained and operated...

... in the realization of market efficiency. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Privatization Free market Company failures Africa Developing countries Privatization as a policy instrument originated under circumstances so diverse and speculative as the lacunae it was intended to remedy (World Bank, 1995; Yarrow...

...Godwin Awio; Deryl Northcott Like a number of other developing countries in recent years, Uganda has adopted a decentralized management structure for its public sector. Along with this restructuring came the devolution of budgetary responsibilities. Presents findings from a study of the impact...