This chapter reviews a study concerned with how Swedish government agencies used IT during the period of 1985-1999–to centralize or to decentralize? Purchase this chapter to continue reading all 20 pages >doi:10.4018/978-1-930708-19-8.ch015Multimedia IS...
Thus, the municipal government can carry out unified planning within its jurisdiction, which reduces local protectionism and friction between government agencies in various administrative units and greatly reduces market segmentation (Li and Du, 2021). Furthermore, the reduction of market segmentation ...
Promoting public cooperation in government: key drivers, regulation, and barriers of the e-collaboration movement in Kazakhstan The primary goal of the article is to understand the political and socio-economic incentives for government agencies to adopt various collaborative strategies in promoting current...
2 By way of contrast, the centralization of the purchase of goods and services through the introduction of dedicated national or sub-national agencies, such as Central Purchasing Bodies (CPBs), calls for a more direct form of affecting public expenditure and, for this reason, it has been ...
To determine the degree of conflict or cooperation is a matter of empirical investigation. As Mayntz (2007) states, agencies at different territorial levels (e.g., in the field of RE installations) are sometimes only related by the fact that they are directed at the same economic sector, ...
Making it easy for citizens and businesses to engage with government increases the uptake of cost-effective and more sustainable digital services. Currently, however, many governments do not yet share service data, missing out on the one-government experience and preventing them deriving actionable ins...
With these stringent measures often comes an increase in the cost of compliance for exchanges and other crypto service providers. Privacy concerns are another issue amid the swath of information being provided to government agencies. However, this strict regulatory climate has done little to dampen th...
This paper estimates the impact of corruption on the incentives of procurers to maintain honest competition in tenders. Customers, who procure for themselves, and Agencies, who procure for the customers in their region are considered. Basing on a large dataset of open auctions conducted by Russian...
That’s the plan of the 911 Centralization Committee, a group representing Washington County and Marietta emergency agencies and government representatives who met Monday to update status reports and to more clearly define some of the elements involved in their countywide goal. ...
(p ) of decisions increases. ... To show that decentralization may still play a role, let us examine an extreme scenario in which the decisions made by different agencies are aggregated to produce a unique global outcome that applies to all ...