BEHAVIOUR AND ACTION:CITIZENS VS. PUBLIC SERVICES

New entrepreneurial behaviour of public research organisations: opportunities and threats of technological services supply

Public research labs play a fundamental role in modern economies to increase, through knowledge and technology transfer, the economic growth of countries. The paper analyses new organisation of the biggest public research body in Italy, based on project management, designed with an explicit aim to transform this research institution in entrepreneurial organisation, providing technological servi...

Migration and Local Public Services

Using unique Swedish micro data we examine the impact of local public services on community choice. The choice of community is modeled as a choice between a discrete set of alternatives. The US literature has produced conflicting evidence with respect to the importance of local public services. We find a robust positive (negative) relationship between local public services (local income tax rat...

What Is Public about Public Services?

On my first visit to Prague after the 'Velvet' revolution of 1989, I spent a morning discussing the post-communist future of public services with Czech labour leaders. For a while I was perplexed: why were they so sanguine about the prospect of hospitals being privatized? They were baffled too: why would a Londoner favour state control of pubs? It soon dawned on us that we were at cross purpose...

The Public Medical Services

Web Services: SOAP vs. REST

It is unanimously believed that Web services will move the Web to its next level by facilitating application to application interaction over the Internet. However, there is no consensus on how Web services should be implemented. Software vendors promote involved tool-chains that are based on SOAP, a W3C standard, as the ideal technology, while a few, but vocal practitioners claim that a simpler...