Studies on Adaptation to Information Systems: Multiple Roles and Coping Strategies

Understanding individual adaptation to Information Systems (IS) has received relatively little attention in IS research. For furthering these issues, a multi-paper dissertation is adopted and studies distinct aspects of user interaction with IT related with adaptation. Thus, in order to better understand how system users adapt to IT disruptions this study examines (1) how system users who become disrupted by IS that provide them with too much information interact with these systems, (2) the influence of espoused cultural values (Srite et al. 2006) on user coping strategies of adaptation to IS, and (3) middle managers responses to the implementation of disruptive IT in public administration. These dissertation studies together help improve our knowledge on individual adaptive responses to IT disruptions

Bestact – Software for Visualization of Digitalized Family Registers and Civil Status Acts

The introduction of new IT in public administration is a prerequisite for improving its efficiency and improving the administrative services. According to the legal requirements registers of civil status acts are formed for each municipality, stored in the territorial units Directorate "General Civil Registration and Administrative Services" for 130 years, then transferred to the State Archives. The oldest family registers are from the 1893 and their physical state in most municipalities is very bad. The logical outcome of the situation is the digitalization of these records. The software BestAct, developed by the author is planned, designed and developed to automate the handling of old family registers and civil status acts. Visualization of digitalized family registers and civil status has the ability to search by criteria. Keywords: IT, digitalization, registers and civil status acts, softwar

E-Government Partnerships Across Levels of Government

E-government Partnerships across Levels of Government, is an overview of the challenges and approaches to creating a collaborative and cooperative partnership across levels of government for e-government development and implementation.E-Governance; cooperative partenership; decentralization; federalism

Impact of New Technologies on Public Organisations

ICTs impact is important on organisational structure and organisational culture.IT offers options for the design of organisational culture,the interaction by means of new modalities ,joint fonctions and objectives,faciliting the set up of working groups with a determined term,as well as communication on large areas. The use of effective IT could provide an attractive work environment ,and could motivate the employees by means of job enrichment. ICTs represent a catalyst for the public sector,in order to improve the decisions making process, efficient management of resourses,to increase productivity in the public sector.Public organisations, new technologies, e-administration

The Romanian Public Administration facing the Challenges of Integration into the European Union

The paper achieves an analysis of some issues concerning the changes in the Romanian public administration in the context of integration into the European Union. The most important processes approach Europeanization and its theoretical and practical mechanisms. Concerning the Romanian public administration, the analysis starts with the reform process, on local and national level. The paper reveals the main laws and rules as well as the principles expressed in the administrative change: actuality and continuity, openness and transparency, accountability, efficiency and effectiveness. The paper also achieves a brief analysis of the reform strategies in view of complying with the European Administrative SpaceEuropeanization, administrative system, reform, anti-corruption strategies

Privatization in Practice: Human Services

Matthew Diller moderates this panel discussion with Jacquelyn L. Boggess, Anna Burger, Liz Krueger, David V. Mastran and David R. Riemer. This panel discusses questions like, what happens to public sector workers who follow their jobs after they have been contracted out? Additionally, in the debate about privatization versus public service provision, we must be careful not to forget accountability

Public entrepreneurship as innovative management strategy in the public sector : a public choice-approach

Paper Originally Presented at the 65th Annual Conference of the Southern Economic Association , Fairmont Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, November 18-20, 1995. Bureaucratic service organisations in the public sector are increasingly loosing their previous comfortable monopoly positions in providing services to the public, due to radical structural changes in modern society. The public finance of their services by politicians ordering public services as elected representatives of the citizens-consumers is not longer guaranteed, and neither is the consumption of their services by the public. Government bureaucracy is forced to produce services under (quasi) competitive market conditions. In a competitive system of public service provision, government bureaucracies have to conquer new markets with new services (new product/market combinations). External management of their relations with funding politicians and with the service consumers is becoming vital for their survival. ''Public Entrepreneurship'' is an important element of the necessary innovation of strategic management of government bureaucracies. In this paper, the concept of public entrepreneurship is elaborated. Public entrepreneurship originally is constructed by Osborne and Gaebler as a device to ''reinvent government''. The consequences of public entrepreneurship for their relations with political superiors and sponsors on the one hand, and their contacts with consumer-clients and interest groups on the other hand, are explored from the institutional perspective of public management reform in Western Europe. Public entrepreneurship combines elements of classical market entrepreneurship and elements of modern social entrepreneurship of institutions of private initiative. Public entrepreneurship imposes new challenges for bureaucrats operating between the political leadership of their bureau and the clients of the services provided by their bureau. Public entrepreneurship also causes new problems of political-democratic control. These challenges and problems are explored and some solutions are formulated.public economics ;