Political Actor or Policy Instrument? Governance Challenges in Australian Local Government

The Governance of Partnerships in Local Government

Partnering is often claimed to represent a solution small local government organizations (SLGOs) can resort to in order to manage innovation. However, especially when private partners are involved, resources and specialized competencies need to be allocated on the management of the partnership in order to guarantee that it will deliver a public value. SLGOs often lack such resources and this ca...

Political Participation in Local Government: Social and Institutional Contexts

for providing the survey data for this study. I would also like to thank Craig Donahue for compiling the city and county demographic measures used in the analyses.

Challenges and policy recommendations for IT governance in the University of Medical Sciences: a case study

Introduction: “Information and Communication Technology (ICT) governance” was introduced in developed countries in the late 1990s and replaced ICT management. In addition to the separation of the ICT responsibilities between different units/levels, ICT governance allowed universities to develop mechanisms for monitoring ICT decisions in line with the University's vision, mission, and strategic ...

Is Open Data Enough?: E-Governance Challenges for Open Government

The article aims to investigate how key e-Governance dimensions related to openness, such as transparency and accountability, which are a necessary condition for reaching a high maturity of e-Government, may not be sufficient for open government. For this purpose, an interpretative framework to identify country attitudes towards Open Government is proposed and it is applied to two cases drawn f...

The Application of Information System in Australian Local Government