617 research outputs found
L’ E-procurement nella sanità italiana: alcuni spunti di riflessione
No full textPremessa. – Parte Prima: I. Sistemi Sanitari Regionali e processi di acquisto (G. Ferrara-S. Pozzoli). – II. La gestione degli approvvigionamenti nell’esperienza delle aziende private (D. Mancini). – III. I sistemi sanitari regionali (A. Scaletti). – IV. L’ E-procurement nella sanità italiana: alcuni spunti di riflessione (V. Mele). – Parte Seconda: I. Il governo interaziendale della funzione di acquisto nella sanità della Regione Toscana (M. Braganti-T. Di Grezia). – II. Il governo interaziendale della funzione di acquisto nella sanità della Regione Lombardia (T. Di Grezia). – III. La funzione d’acquisto di beni e servizi nella sanità della Regione Emilia Romagna (T. Di Grezia). – Bibliografia
Mixed methods in public administration: advantages and challenges
No full textUnderstanding when and how mixed methods (MMs) have been and should be employed in public administration research has recently attracted scholarly attention (Hendren et al., 2018; Honig, 2019; Mele and Belardinelli, 2019). These methodological stock-taking exer-cises conclude that the public administration literature has been increasingly receptive to the adoption of MMs and that scholars in our field are familiar with the vast repertoire of mixed methods designs available. A systematic review conducted by Mele and Belardinelli (2019) indicates that, out of the 104 primary studies included in the review: 38 per cent of the studies adopted a sequential explanatory design, 31 per cent a parallel design, 29 per cent a sequential exploratory design, and the remaining 4 per cent a hybrid combination of MMs. While this variety signals maturity in the selection of methods, the study also argues that mixed methods in public administration could further unleash their potential if scholars were more precise and explicit in their combination of methods. Furthermore, issues that are still considered quite problematic include the adequate comparison or integration of the results obtained through the separate research processes and the fact that some works relegate to the background some of the evidence collected. This is often the fate of the data resulting from interviews, the method most frequently combined with another. In a similar vein, Hendren et al. (2018, p.912) call for a “dedicated effort to improve the qualitative component of mixed methods studies, and greater attention to integrating the qualitative and quantitative components of mixed methods studies”. The purpose of this chapter is to stimulate the debate on MMs in our field and to nail down the advantages and challenges of this approach. After framing MMs as a research approach that serves the purpose of a pragmatic discipline, we offer a classification of MM designs, identifying some challenges as well as their specific advantages. We then provide examples and guidance through the analysis of three illustrative studies
Programmes for change in italy (1993-2003). Issues, entrepreneurs and routines
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Paradigmi e progetti di E-Government: l'impatto delle ICT sul settore pubblico
No full textSviluppo di un framework per l'analisi e la valutazione dei modelli e dei progetti di governo elettronic
Electronic Government in Italy: a longitudinal analysis of three policy cycles
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Il Ruolo del Governo nella Società dell'Informazione
No full textLe strategie di informatizzazione delle amministrazioni pubbliche e il cambiamento che le nuove tecnologie dell'informazione e comunicazione inducono nei processi tipici di govern
Actors, institutions and signals: explaining a decade of change in the italian public management domain
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Innovation Policy in Italy (1993-2002): Understanding the Invention and Persistence of a Public Management Reform
No full textThe literature on the politics of public management reform in Italy broadly contends that the country's legalistic administrative tradition suppresses reform. This article questions and qualifies this line of argument on the basis of a newly reported case of public management reform that endured for more than 10 years. The study tracks and explains the emergence of the policy issue of " government innovation" and its persistence on the specialized policy agenda of the Ministry for Public Administration. The initial emergence of the government innovation policy in Italy and its directional stability is explained by applying event-centric approaches to historical analysis, together with the institutional concept of policy subsystems. The article shows the need for modifying central arguments-both substantive and theoretical-about the politics of public management reform in Italy. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc
Explaining programmes for change: electronic government policy in Italy (1993-2003)
No full textThis paper examines Electronic Government (E-Government) policy in Italy (1993 – 2003) as an instance of Programme for change, defined as explicit and intentional efforts of central agencies to introduce, spread and sustain government-wide innovative practices.
Literature on both public management reform and on innovation management has left Programmes for change an area that is
under explored. Understanding why they start, how they operate, how they interact with the context - institutions, political actors,
bureaucrats’ behaviour and beliefs - and what role is played by individual policy entrepreneurs needs to be further examined.
This paper addresses these questions by analysing recent experiences of E-Government policy in Italy from an institutional processualist approach. It does so in a country where such a complex Programme came into existence and became a mainstay of the modernization issue despite a tumultuous political context
Le carte sanitarie: l'esperienza di alcuni paesi europei
No full textDopo una descrizione delle caratteristiche e delle funzioni delle smart card in sanità l'articolo analizza alcune esperienze internazionali di successo
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