of a keynote speech This paper discusses the concept of public value in relation to government ICT investment from three perspectives -theory foundations, assessment methods, and an application example. The discussion of theory foundations combines attention to the roots of the concept of public value in political philosophy and public administration. The origins of the concept of public value ...

People often use social media to discuss opinions, including political ones. We refer to relevant topics in these discussions as political issues, and the alternate stands towards these topics as political positions. We present a Political Issue Extraction (PIE) model that is capable of discovering political issues and positions from an unlabeled dataset of tweets. A strength of this model is t...

The present study was conducted to investigate the influence of initial sucrose concentration, pH and aeration rate on biomass and inulinase production by Kluyveromyces marxianus var. bulgaricus in a stirred batch reactor. Maximum inulinase activity (15.29 UmL) was obtained at a sucrose concentration of 10 g L, pH 5.0 and aeration rate of 1 vvm. The 20 g L sucrose concentration was suitable for...

In this paper we introduce a new coalitional value in the context of TU games with an a priori system of unions, which it is called the symmetric coalitional Banzhaf value. This value satisfies the property of symmetry in the quotient game, the quotient game property, and it is a coalitional value of Banzhaf. Several characterizations are provided and two political examples illustrate the diffe...

Using novel, high-frequency data on political strikes in Bangladesh, we examine the impact of political violence on firm-level export activity. Our data cover the universe of political strikes and export transactions in Bangladesh during 2010 to 2013. Using an event-study approach, we find that there is a 16.26 percent reduction in the baseline probability of exporting on the day of a strike. M...

Educational disadvantage is an essentially contested, political concept. At the same time there is a “phoney consensus” (O’Sullivan, 1999) surrounding the issue, i.e., policy debates on the topic often fail to reflect this contestation. This lack of awareness of the political context to the debate is evident in relation to the targets and measures set for addressing educational disadvantage. Wh...

Most research on efficacy and participation in collective action has focused on single country samples with little attention paid to the relationship between efficacy and country-level structural factors. Drawing on value expectancy theory, we theorize a link between macro-level political institutions and micro-level efficacy. To address the previous limitations in the efficacy and collective a...

The persuasive power of values-based political messages may depend on recipients having (1) shared values with the speaker (a type of personal identity match); (2) shared political party identifications with the speaker (a type of social identity match); and/or (3) expectations about values traditionally associated with different political parties (an expectancy violation/confirmation). The ind...

While nurses can and do behave as intentional political agents, claims that nurses collectively do (empiric), should (normative) or must (regulatory) act to advance political objectives lack credibility. This paper challenges the coherence and legitimacy of political demands placed upon nurses. It is not suggested that nurses ought not to contribute to political discourse and activity. That wou...

Uncertainty in the policy making process creates substantial transaction costs for firms (Williamson, 1991; Henisz andZelner, 2004). Consequently, business organisations engage in political behaviour to internalise these costs and influence the policy process in ways favourable to them. The current paper is concerned with a particular form of political strategy adopted by firms in China. A sign...