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Contrary to popular belief which sees the governments as reactive and resistant to change, the increasing emergence of innovative ideas particularly in the field of local services yielded a wide range of interactions. This was due to address new policy challenges, improve productivity, better...
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While green purchasing policies have the potential to significantly reduce carbon impacts across the globe, most U.S. cities have either struggled to implement them or do not have one at all. Consequently, these policies have not reached their potential to help local governments mitigate their...
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Purpose: This study aims to analyze major concerns facing the Palestinian local governments in order to increase efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency in managing local governments.Methodology: A special questionnaire was developed to collect the perception of the municipalities'...
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Large retailers have significant positive spillovers on nearby businesses, and both private and public mechanisms exist to attract them. We estimate these externalities using detailed geographic establishment data and exogenous variation from national chain bankruptcies. We show that local...
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The lack of extensive research with regard to personnel management of local government units (LGUs) prompted the authors to undertake analyses, the purpose of which was to give the voice to the respondents, according to the assumptions of the constructivist paradigm.The purpose of the study was...
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The local government system in both the developed and developing world aims at developing the remote areas of their nations. For examples, the English committee system of local government management emphasizes the importance of elected representatives as a way of increasing efficiency, and...
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This study aims to examine the perception of government employees about the association of the culture of compliance in information technology (IT) on the service quality, accountability, and transparency through effective IT governance (ITG) as an intervening variable. This study was carried...
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Purpose - The aim of this paper is to focus on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by local authorities (LAs) in order to understand to which extent, they impact the value chain of local public services. The value creation in this article concerns not only economic...
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