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Diversità di genere e cultura “brogrammer” : che fare?
No full textI pregiudizi legati alla diversità di genere sono difficili da combattere a tutti i livelli, comprese le
organizzazioni high tech globali come Google e Facebook. Stanno tuttavia emergendo dalla ricerca
organizzativa percorsi di cambiamento che, partendo dalla classificazione e rilevazione dei ‘bias’
di genere, offrono strumenti operativi alle organizzazion
Taking stock of organization and performance in the public sector
Get PDFTo deepen our understanding of the publicness-performance relationship, the paper combines and integrates two conceptual models. This qualitative research seeks to cast light on two categories of organizational variables that act as performance moderators, i.e., agency-level factors and individual-level factors, by selectively reviewing academic studies on the performance of public services. It then discusses the implications of the extended model developed by the authors and suggests future research trajectorie
ICT policies, the Mediterranean tradition and the Italian diet of discontinuity
No full textThe article investigates the ICT policies of characteristically political instable Italy in the wake of the (dis)continuous flood of government reforms that began in the early 1990s. Using the case of the Italian digital agency, the research amplifies the scope of the current discussions on national e-Government trajectories, providing evidence for the interrelated dynamics between policy outcomes, implementation mechanisms and administrative landscape. The article shows that the discontinuity of Italy’s Digital Agenda is attributable to the merry-go-round nature of governments with divergent views of modernization – resulting in the digital agency’s multiple, even conflicting mandates – and to the misalignment of the ‘original agency model’ with the embedded culture of the public machinery. The article provides illustration of these arguments from the historical institutionalist perspective and maintains that insights into these phenomena are essential for contextualizing and understanding ICT policies
Italy's e-government agenda : lost in stagnation
No full textThe public sector is in trouble as the crisis and public spending cuts bite harder. The crisis has affected both advanced and developing countries since 2008. At the same time, a growing number of public decision-makers worldwide are increasingly incorporating e-government and ICT-based policies (OECD, 2011). Yet what do we really know about the link between e-government and economic development? Can e-government help power growth
Co-production and nudging: The enabling role of ICT
Get PDFCo-production and nudging reflect the new paths taken by governments in the digital transformation age. Both are behaviour-based tools of public action. Both are premised on the idea that citizen engagement in public services is essential for problem solving. Thus far, however, these topics of debate have been addressed in isolation. The aim of this explorative paper is twofold: to come to an overall assessment about the potential of co-production and nudging, analysing the links between them, and the role that ICT plays in improving citizen behaviours. Draw-ing on a service lens, the paper makes the case that co-production and nudging can be combined to support citizens in their ‘service user journey’. This tentative exercise is a conceptual one, but hopefully one that broadens the understanding of citizens’ participation mediated by digital technologies. In essence, the joint adop-tion of co-production and nudging could help design and deliver services that bet-ter meet citizen needs
Exploring the role of industrial districts to design and implement age-aware e-services and policies
Get PDFWe examine the basic issues concerning the interplay of ICT-IS with an ageing society and the ‘e-Inclusion’ strategy de-veloped by the European Union (EU). We claim that, because of their innovative traits, Italian industrial districts represent appropriate environments for the imple-mentation of public policies in support of an ageing information society. In fast growing countries, such as China, this approach could spur the development and the competitiveness of both e-services and small and medium size firms (SMEs). Present agreements between China and the EU can fuel appropriate research and ventures in relevant fields
Publicness and organizational theory building : opening the black box
No full textThe paper investigates the publicness-performance relationship, combining and integrating two conceptual models presented in recent mainstream literature. The result points to the need to set the performance management debate in a broader context, one open to the contribution of organization studies. Embracing a fresh perspective not only helps to advance our understanding of the relevant phenomena, but also to build a more convincing and informed knowledge base on public service performanc
E-services and the ageing society : an Italian perspective
No full textThe higher resources needed to provide a service portfolio that responds to the rapid growth of an ageing population is a concern for many governments in the developed countries. The paper explores the convergent insights of three conceptual frameworks to identify where age-aware eGovernment is more likely to be developed effectively. The paper shows how the social and relational capital of the Italian “industrial districts” make them ideal settings, receptive to the implementation of age-aware eGovernment services, thanks to both the innovative mindset of the business community and their rich social capita
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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