27 research outputs found
A Strategic Orientation Model for the Turkish Local e-Governments
Increased environmental uncertainty and complexity along with budget constraints
requires public organizations to manage strategically as never before. The
environments of public organizations have become increasingly turbulent and more
firmly interconnected. During the past two decades, governments have innovated
new management tools such as strategic planning, outsourcing, and performance
measurement to deal with complex governance and networks to provide their
public services. Meanwhile, the drive to implement e-government has resulted in
the formulation of many e-government visions and strategies, driven by their own
sets of political, economic, and social factors and requirements. With this regard,
recent developments in e-service provision of Turkish Local e-Governments
deserve empirical and well-structured research. Building on the recent literature,
this study draws a strategic orientation framework and tests it by analyzing the
contents of strategic documents of 114 Turkish Local e-Governments
A Comparison of the Industrialization Paths for Asian Services Outsourcing Industries, and Implications for Poverty Alleviation
Global political system's perspective to climate-society interactions
The purpose of this paper is to suggest some of the principal elements that might be useful in the development of a general theory of the climate-society interaction, to point out some of the pathways and linkages among political components involved in coping with climatic impacts, and to identify some obstacles, strategies, and incentives that apply to making policy choices related to climate
Scenario of the impact of a future climate change on world food production
In order to study implications of a future CO/sub 2/-induced climatic change, plausible long-term changes of patterns of temperature and rainfall must be devised. One such scenario is presented, showing regions that may be wetter or drier than now in a future warmer climate. This information was combined with data on world food productivity to show some crops that could be affected by climate-induced changes in soil moisture. Assumptions made when preparing the map of possible changes in soil moisture are discussed. (JGB
Anthropogenic climate change: assessing the responsibility of developed and developing countries
If the international community of nations is ever to assess responsibility for carbon dioxide production and changed distributions of climate, calculations must be extended backward and forward to encompass a range of reasonable scenarios of fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions. The preliminary calculations presented here indicate that developed countries might have to bear the brunt of responsibility for new climatic regimes, as suppliers of fuel to the world, as major consumers, and as the major overall cumulative contributions of CO/sub 2/ to the atmosphere through the next century