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Social and Health Risks of Female Genital Mutilation for Medication and Braveness

Ibrahim, Abdurahman Hamza; Belay, Degwale Gebeyehu; … - In: International Journal of Risk and Contingency … 7 (2018) 1, pp. 20-36

of FGM, to explore its drivers, to assess documentation and tracking practices, and political will and synergy of actors … a sign of braveness. The political will and synergy different actors in the study Woredas, were found to be weak. …

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Does Bureaucracy Stifle Moral Agency?

Adewale, Adeyinka - In: International Journal of Public Administration in the … 4 (2017) 2, pp. 1-13

Bureaucracy has been around us since the earliest human societies and has been the cornerstone of ancient and modern … bureaucracy is at the foundations of our modern societies, its role in this trend cannot be ignored hence the purpose of this … wars to our modern capitalist society is presented. Second, bureaucracy is conceptualised with a clear focus on Weber …

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Informating Public Governance: Towards a Basis for a Digital Ecosystem

Paulin, Alois A. - In: International Journal of Public Administration in the … 4 (2017) 2, pp. 14-32

This treatise explores the possibilities and constraints to informate public governance. Informating as used in this context refers to the ability to technically control / steer the core provision of public governance by means of information technology, rather than steering public governance...

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Public Participation Distribution and Marketing: An Inseparable Duality

Kabst, Rüdiger; Weber, Patrick; Wagner, Sascha Alexander - In: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social … 3 (2016) 4, pp. 1-13

The distribution of public participation in Western political environments has become an important topic in recent years. Low participation rates combined with low levels of trust toward government officials has resulted in low efficiency of public participation projects. Whereas prior research...

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Exploring Digitally Enabled Service Transformation in the Public Sector: Would Institutional and Structuration Theory Concepts Keep the Research Talking?

Weerakkody, Vishanth; Omar, Amizan; El-Haddadeh, Ramzi - In: International Journal of Electronic Government Research … 12 (2016) 4, pp. 1-14

Institutional and Structuration. Institutional Theory provides a way of viewing and explaining why and how institutions emerge in a … certain way within a given context. The theory however is being criticized for its structural biasness, as it avoids … explanations situated at individual or same level of analysis. Such gap is filled with the adoption of Structuration Theory, which …

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Digital City Projects: Information and Public Services Offered by Chicago (USA) and Curitiba (Brazil)

Rezende, Denis Alcides - In: International Journal of Knowledge Society Research (IJKSR) 7 (2016) 3, pp. 16-30

Offering full information and efficient public services is a permanent challenge for cities concerned with citizens' quality of life and effective municipal management. The objective of this study is to describe and assess the digital city projects in Chicago (USA) and Curitiba (Brazil), using...

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Governments' Need for Digitization Skills: Understanding and Shaping Vocational Training in the Public Sector

Ogonek, Nadine; Hofmann, Sara - In: International Journal of Public Administration in the … 5 (2018) 4, pp. 61-75

this, implications for theory and practice for the digitization future and vocational trainings in government are derived. …

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Effects of Peer Monitoring and Contract Choice on Repayment Rates Under Group Liability Lending: A Laboratory Microfinance Experiment From Australia

Razzaque, Shahid - In: International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics … 7 (2018) 3, pp. 1-33

This article addresses the issue of peer monitoring and choice of contracts on the repayment behaviour of the subjects. The authors conducted a laboratory experiment using student subjects from the University of Sydney, Australia by employing profit sharing (PS) and conventional interest based...

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Academic Entrepreneurship for Scaling Innovation

Baporikar, Neeta - In: International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and … 6 (2016) 2, pp. 21-39

Academic Entrepreneurship in the last three decades has risen to greater heights. There are various reasons too. Indian's education sector has been undergoing sea changes in these decades. Every state has been opening up and there has been a plethora of institutions established. In the process,...

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Holistic Approach for Balanced Scorecard as Managerial Decision Making Tool

Baporikar, Neeta - In: International Journal of System Dynamics Applications … 5 (2016) 1, pp. 31-42

theory approach, this paper examines some theoretical and methodological issues of BSC to develop a holistic perspective when …

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