E-government has become popular in Sri Lanka with the implementation of various e-government initiatives. The public value of these e-government initiatives, however, is not clear due to a lack of rigorous assessment so far on the performance of such e-government initiatives. This paper presents an empirical study in evaluating the public value of e-government in Sri Lanka within a conceptual f...

This paper examines the effects of ownership types on firms’ R&D intensity and innovation performance, using a sample of 357,857 Chinese firms from 2005 to 2007. This study finds considerable divergence among Chinese domestic enterprises in terms of R&D intensity and innovation performance. We find that firms owned by the central government are the key drivers for firms’ R&D activities, while l...

Th e primary justifi cation for the move toward e-government, an electronic channel of service delivery that has proven tremendously successful in the private sector, ... is the belief that it holds considerable potential for positively transforming government service delivery in a manner that is consistent with recent market-centered theories of public sector reform. Th is paper examines the f...

To rationalize the size of government, Act on adjusting a part of government’s financial rules is approved and the government is obliged to assign a part of its activities through (1) services by nonpublic sector, (2) partnership with nonpublic sector, and (3) assigning the management to nonpublic sector. There are many barriers in executing this law. The present study derived from a field stud...

The purpose of this paper is to examine and evaluate the effects of government intervention on the Iranian economy over the last few decades. It is shown that public expenditures affect the value added of each economic sector not only simultaneously, but lagged over several periods. Regression results show that the value added from the agricultural sector has never been affected by government e...

Strategic alignment between business and IT is known to be important for achieving good business performance in one organization. It is not clear how strategic alignment influences the performance of a business network consisting of multiple organizations. This paper presents a method to assess inter-organizational Extended Strategic Alignment (ESA) based on the analysis of inter-organizational...

This paper investigates whether assigning control of government services provision to a politician or bureaucrat affects the cost of government services. Conceptually, bureaucratic control could reduce costs if (a) costs are hard for voters to observe, weakening the incentives for politicians to exert effort to reduce costs, or (b) bureaucrats’ implicit incentives to reduce costs are strong due...