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How IT Governance Practices Contribute to Inter-Municipal ICT Cooperation and Its Benefits: Indeed, “The Emperor Has No Clothes”
Dahlberg, Tomi; Helin, Ari - In: International Journal of IT/Business Alignment and … 8 (2017) 2, pp. 62-79
ICT is significant for municipal' services. Yet, they are usually operated with limited resources, which motivates cooperation. We investigated, how ICT cooperation was governed in 20 Finnish regions. As the theoretical basis, we reviewed TCE, RBV, IT governance practice and Granovetter's social...
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Suburban Development of St Petersburg: comparison of 2 subjects of Federation long-term visions
Limonov, Leonid - 2014
("sadovodstva") into regular settlements (municipalities) with all necessary infrustructure 6) development and financing a system of … Metropolitan Area, which includes a number of municipalities, located in Leningrad Oblast. …
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Tax effort and oil royalties in the Brazilian municipalities
Slaibe Postali, Fernando Antonio - In: EconomiA 16 (2015) 3, pp. 395-405
This paper estimates a stochastic production frontier, to investigate whether municipalities covered by oil royalties … variable as instruments in the inefficiency equation. The data set is composed of a panel of Brazilian municipalities from 2002 … fiscal effort by the benefiting municipalities. …
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Are more resources always the answer? A supply and demand analysis for public health services in Brazilian municipalities
Rocha, Fabiana; Duarte, Janete; de Oliveira, Plínio Portela - In: EconomiA 18 (2017) 1, pp. 98-116
manage their expenditures. Since municipalities in Brazil are very heterogeneous, we estimate their efficiency using the …
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Some of the theoretical basis of local self-government in the Czech Republic
Pospíšil, Petr; Lebiedzik, Marian - In: DANUBE: Law, Economics and Social Issues Review 8 (2017) 1, pp. 31-43
) definition of self-governing tasks of municipalities and regions in the future. …
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The significant of public asset management framework application for Indonesian local governments : Opportunities and challenges
Hanis, Muhammad Hasbi; Trigunarsyah, Bambang; … - 2010
The purpose of this paper is to emphasis the significance of public asset management in Indonesia that is by identifying opportunities and challenges of Indonesian local governments in adopting current practice of Public Asset Management System. A Case Study, in South Sulawesi Provincial...
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Developing a critical model to evaluate the appropriateness of local body climate protection policies: the case of Freiburg
Galvin, Ray - 2009
Sub-national governments are now seen as having an important role to play in climate protection. Initial research in this area sought to identify their initiatives in climate change mitigation and theorize their role in relation to national and international climate protection policies. Because...
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Climate change and tourism in Tuscany, Italy: What if heat becomes unbearable?
Cai, Mattia; Ferrise, Roberto; Moriondo, Marco; Nunes, … - 2011
a fine spatial scale analysis. In fact, we explore the use of an 8-year panel dataset of Tuscany's 254 municipalities …
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Does good local governance improve subjective well-being?
Cárcaba, Ana; Arrondo, Rubén; González Fidalgo, Eduardo - In: European Research on Management and Business Economics … 28 (2022) 2, pp. 1-10
The goal of this research is to examine the effects of good management of local governments on individual subjective well-being (SWB). We define three dimensions of good governance at the municipal level: accountability, government efficiency and control of corruption. We use a large survey of...
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Estimación del indicador 15.3.1: Proporción de tierras degradadas en comparación con la superficie total de los municipios y territorios indígenas de Bolivia
Quezada Lambertin, Carlos Eduardo; Nina Vargas, Marco … - 2023
degraded land over total land area," was estimated for 339 Municipalities and 197 Indigenous Territories in Bolivia. The … significant variability at the municipal level, where 22 municipalities exhibited high degradation rates, exceeding 20%. These … municipalities are primarily located in the Andean region, with degradation mainly due to land productivity loss. On the other hand …
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