...). Social implications As AI transforms society, awareness of the complexities to manage and the potential solutions is a critical frontier to investigate and disseminate to support the government in the new digital age. Given the centrality of social equity for governmental organizations, a critical...

...Ana Luiza Freire de Lorena; Ana Paula Cabral Seixas Costa Purpose This study explores how public sector risk management (RM) is implemented in 6 Brazilian state governments, given the existence of contextual factors in the settings. Design/methodology/approach The cases were selected following...

... representation of women affects policies in specific areas and overall governmental influence and competence. This reflects other studies that have shown, in different governmental contexts, that increasing the passive representation of women is related to substantive changes in policy attitudes and outputs...

..., a governmentality framework and the concept of hybrids (Miller et al., 2008) are employed to explore the role of budget speech in articulating ways in which the government managed the economic and social agenda. Findings – Previous governmentality studies have primarily been conducted on economic...

... ; Hess, 2005 ; Schuyt, 2010). The global economic downturn; the uneven increase in global wealth; ideas of new governance, the growing popularity of corporate social responsibility and the perceived demise of the welfare state have contributed to renewed governmental interest in collaborating...

... Development Australia's Tasmanian committee, and local governments. Findings – The five-stage iterative model leverages strategic conversations, analysis (through N-Vivo), comments and revisions, recommendation co-creation, and policy assessment using SERQUAL to craft more satisfying policy...

... involved in contracting for the provision of publicly funded services. This paper examines the suggestion made by a number of commentators that as a result the government has exercised influence over the way in which human resources are managed in this sector. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses...

... of a “citizen‐centred” vision for e‐government should be seen as offering possibilities for people to do “otherwise” with systems and technologies and according to their own purposes, so that they can also influence governmental action. Table I contains the detail of the presence of our patterns...

... of government services (stage 4), which requires a higher level of interoperability: furthermore, they demand a higher degree of information sharing and interactive operations among various stakeholders and governmental agencies in order to deliver more efficient and effective online public services...

...”). Means relating to the more emotive, involved issues measured < 3 in each case. Overall, the results indicate that users currently see little added value in exploiting e‐governmental portals for citizen engagement and participation in democratic decision making. Whilst the results may...

... usually faces the problem of public cynicism. Building relationships with customers is an inherent aspect of governmental activity. Citizens and businesses have a life long relationship with government, interacting with a broad range of public agencies and departments in many different circumstances...

... of the governmental processes was essential in order to achieve dramatic improvements in service delivery. Two important studies initiated by the government in the early 1990s led to the introduction of major revision in procedural matters of the business of the government. Public agencies in general have been asked...

... engage in it, often in association with governmental bodies, to create governance; sometimes without governmental authority. The promotion of good governance is widely accepted as a prerequisite for development (Sen, 1999). But defining the principles of good governance is difficult...

... an insight into the leadership role of women in social regeneration. Gender Regeneration Government United Kingdom © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 A total of 75 per cent of those active in communities are women, who organise local projects on meagre finances usually raised from...

...David Gilbert; Pierre Balestrini; Darren Littleboy This article examines the reasons individuals would choose electronic self‐service delivery methods over more traditional methods of service delivery for government services. The study investigated the factors related to decision making when people...

...Barry Thomas Two aspects of the book could perhaps have been given greater attention. The first is the rationale for the PES. The principles underlying government intervention in the labour market receive scant treatment, as do the principles which might inform the overall scale of PES activity...

... limit on the extent to which the government and public officials can exercise power and authority. After all, as Wheare (1951, p. 10) emphatically observes, “Constitutions spring from a belief in limited government”. In other words, constitutionalism imposes some limitations on governmental powers...

...Alvin G. Wint This study examines the recent efforts by the governments of two Caribbean countries to enhance the competitiveness of their economies in the context of the framework of the use of functional versus selective government interventions. In the course of the study, however...

... governmental agencies, but also by regional or local government (Subirats, 1989, p. 121). As a result of the implication of different governmental levels and institutions there exists a situation of interdependence, and it is this situation of interdependence which will give rise to intergovernmental...

... centralization of governmental authority. This was partly as a result of historical factors, inherited from the the pattern of colonial administration, with its rigid emphasis on control from the centre. On achieving self‐government, many countries retained rigid, centralized structures (United Nations, 1992, p...