Experimental public administration from 1992 to 2014

Purpose – Based on previous inventories, the purpose of this paper is to extend the knowledge on public administration experiments by focusing on their experimental type, design, sample type and realism levels and external validity. The aim is to provide an overview of experimental public administration and formulate potential ways forward. Design/methodology/approach – The authors examine the current state of experimental public administration, by looking at a systematic selection of ISI ranked experimental publications in major public administration journals (1992-2014) and recommend ways forward based on this review. Findings – The review indicates a rise in experimentation in public administration in recent years, this can be attributed mostly to some subfields of public administration. Furthermore, most experiments in public administration tend to have relatively simple designs, high experimental realism and a focus on external validity. Experimental public administration can be strengthened by increasing diversification in terms of samples, experimental designs, experimental types and substantive scope. Finally, the authors recommend to better utilize experiments to generate usable knowledge for practitioners and to replicate experiments to improve scientific rigour. Originality/value – This paper contributes to experimental public administration by drawing on a systematic selection of papers and assessing them in depth. By means of a transparent and systematic selection of publications, various venues or ways forward are presented.

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How does a business family manage its wealth? A family office perspective

Journal of Family Business Management ◽

10.1108/jfbm-03-2020-0021 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Elena Rivo-López ◽

Mónica Villanueva-Villar ◽

Guillermo Suárez-Blázquez ◽

Francisco Reyes-Santías

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Historical Context ◽

Ancient History ◽

Content Type ◽

Family Wealth ◽

Current State ◽

The Family ◽

Privacy And Confidentiality ◽

Conceptual Link ◽

Selection Of

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to find throughout history examples of wealth management of a family or business families that can be assimilated into the current concept of family offices (FOs). In such examples, the study identifies characteristics associated with the different dimensions of the concept of socioemotional wealth (SEW).Design/methodology/approachDrawing on the socioemotional perspective, this paper relates significant examples of FOs based on historical stages (ancient history, the middle ages, modern history, the contemporary period and the actual world). Each case is discussed with an effort to identify the dimensions of the SEW that fit and help in understanding the organization studied.FindingsMainly, FOs allow the management of the family legacy, philanthropy, promotion of entrepreneurship and family wealth preservation for future generations. Autonomy in decision-making, privacy and confidentiality and the achievement of more intangible goals make the FO preferable to other institutions. Through the study of historical cases, the FO constitutes a structure with objectives and activities that have remained consistent from Rome to the present, regardless of historical, political or social context. The results also identify four out of five FIBER dimensions of SEW.Originality/valueIn addition to contributing to the scarce literature on FOs, this paper uses various examples of historical periods to better understand its origin, evolution and current state. A selection of examples at different times allows us to verify that FOs undergo a series of changes throughout history but maintain their characteristics regardless of the historical context. This paper is the first to explore the origin and development of the FO as organization. Building on the findings, the authors present a conceptual SEW framework to deepen in the knowledge of FO. This framework could help researchers and practitioners in future researches providing a conceptual link that demonstrates the components of the SEW perspective best fit the objectives pursued by business families when establishing a family office.

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Focus groups and prime ministers’ chiefs of staff

Journal of Organizational Ethnography ◽

10.1108/joe-06-2014-0015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 208-222 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Roderick A.W. Rhodes ◽

Anne Tiernan

Keyword(s):

Focus Groups ◽

Public Administration ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Political Elites ◽

Content Type ◽

Prime Ministers ◽

Current State ◽

Being There ◽

Administrative Elites

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the current state of political and administrative ethnography in political science and public administration before suggesting that focus groups are a useful tool in the study of governing elites. They provide an alternative way of “being there” when the rules about secrecy and access prevent participant observation. Briefly, it describes the job of Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff before explaining the research design, the preparations for the focus group sessions, and the strategies used to manage the dynamics of a diverse group that included former political enemies and factional rivals. Design/methodology/approach – It outlines the approach to analysis and interpretation before reviewing the strengths and weaknesses of focus groups for research into political and administrative elites. Findings – It concludes that focus groups are a valuable tool for making tacit knowledge explicit, especially when all participants work in a shared governmental tradition. Originality/value – It is the first project to use focus groups to study the political elites of Westminster systems, let alone Australian government.

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Barriers to inclusion and successful engagement of parents in mainstream services: evidence and research

Journal of Children s Services ◽

10.1108/jcs-05-2014-0027 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 220-234 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Vincent La Placa ◽

Judy Corlyon

Keyword(s):

Evidence Base ◽

Current Evidence ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Content Type ◽

Potential Barriers ◽

Service Culture ◽

Current Evidence Base ◽

Systematic Selection ◽

Late Modern ◽

Selection Of

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the current evidence base on barriers to inclusion and successful engagement of parents in mainstream preventive services. Design/methodology/approach – Evidence was generated using a narrative review which uses different primary studies from which conclusions are produced into holistic interpretations. It provides an interpretative synthesis of findings based upon an exhaustive inclusion and exclusion criteria and systematic selection of literature. Findings – The paper identifies barriers to successful engagement as: structural; social and cultural; and suspicion and stigma. In terms of successful engagement, it identifies personal relations between staff and service users, practical issues, service culture, consultation, information and targeting, service delivery, and community development and co-production approaches. Research limitations/implications – The paper demonstrates that the evidence base is limited and not adequately theoretically grounded. It argues for more research based within a pragmatic approach, which is more theoretically and epistemologically informed. Practical implications – The paper demonstrates that more theoretically and epistemologically informed research needs to be addressed in order to design mainstream services on behalf of service practitioners and researchers. Originality/value – Such an approach would assist policy makers and practitioners to develop interventions to reduce potential barriers and facilitate successful engagement and is grounded within users’ experiences. It would also reflect the complexity of working within a late modern environment, attend to the multiple needs of users, and address the complex layers intrinsic to the construction and reproduction of services, as well as widening the current evidence base.

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Systematic selection of shift plans for continuous production with the aid of work-physiological criteria

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e573782012-004 ◽

1976 ◽

Author(s):

Peter Knauth ◽

Walter Rohmert ◽

Joseph Rutenfranz

Keyword(s):

Continuous Production ◽

Systematic Selection ◽

Selection Of

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GREEN OPEN ACCESS IN KENYA: A REVIEW OF THE CONTENT, POLICIES AND USAGE OF INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES

Mousaion ◽

10.25159/0027-2639/198 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 33 (3) ◽

pp. 25-54

Author(s):

Wanyenda Leonard Chilimo

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Open Access ◽

Descriptive Study ◽

Google Scholar ◽

Research Institutions ◽

Journal Articles ◽

Content Type ◽

Institutional Repositories ◽

Current State ◽

Theses And Dissertations

Â There is scant research-based evidence on the development and adoption of open access (OA) and institutional repositories (IRs) in Africa, and in Kenya in particular. This article reports on a study that attempted to fill that gap and provide feedback on the various OA projects and advocacy work currently underway in universities and research institutions in Kenya and in other developing countries. The article presents the findings of a descriptive study that set out to evaluate the current state of IRs in Kenya. Webometric approaches and interviews with IR managers were used to collect the data for the study. The findings showed that Kenya has made some progress in adopting OA with a total of 12 IRs currently listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and five mandatory self-archiving policies listed in the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies (ROARMAP). Most of the IRs are owned by universities where theses and dissertations constitute the majority of the content type followed by journal articles. The results on the usage and impact of materials deposited in Kenyan IRs indicated that the most viewed publications in the repositories also received citations in Google Scholar, thereby signifying their impact and importance. The results also showed that there was a considerable interest in Swahili language publications among users of the repositories in Kenya.

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Digitalization in the system of anti-corruption measures

Public Administration ◽

10.22394/2070-8378-2020-22-5-51-55 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 22 (5) ◽

pp. 51-55

Author(s):

OLEG N. KORCHAGIN ◽

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ANASTASIA V. LYADSKAYA ◽

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Public Administration ◽

Network Architecture ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Current State ◽

Foreign Countries ◽

Separate Area ◽

Private Business Sector ◽

The Given

The article is devoted to the current state of digitalization aimed at solving urgent problems of combating corruption in the field of public administration and private business sector. The work considers the experience of foreign countries and the influence of digital technologies on the fight against corruption. It is noted that the digitalization of public administration is becoming one of the decisive factors for increasing the efficiency of the anti-corruption system and improving management mechanisms. Big Data, if integrated and structured according to the given parameters, allows the implementation of legislative, law enforcement, control and supervisory and law enforcement activities reliably and transparently. Big Data tools allow us to analyze processes, identify dependencies and predict corruption risks. The author describes the most significant problems that complicate the transfer of offline technologies into the online environment. The paper analyzes promising directions for the development of digital technologies that would lead to solving the arising problems, as well as to implement tasks that previously seemed unreachable. The article also describes current developments in the field of collecting and managing large amounts of data, the “Internet of Things”, modern network architecture, and other advances in the field of IT; the work provides applied examples of their potential use in the field of combating corruption. The study gives reasons that, in the context of combating corruption, digitalization should be allocated in a separate area of activity that is controlled and regulated by the state.

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PROMETHEE-based ranking of project managers based on the five personality traits

Kybernetes ◽

10.1108/k-10-2018-0551 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 49 (4) ◽

pp. 1083-1102

Author(s):

Georgios N. Aretoulis ◽

Jason Papathanasiou ◽

Fani Antoniou

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Questionnaire Survey ◽

Multicriteria Decision Making ◽

Project Managers ◽

Preference Ranking ◽

Infrastructure Projects ◽

Public Infrastructure ◽

Content Type ◽

The One ◽

Selection Of

Purpose This paper aims to rank and identify the most efficient project managers (PMs) based on personality traits, using Preference Ranking Organization METHod for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE) methodology. Design/methodology/approach The proposed methodology relies on the five personality traits. These were used as the selection criteria. A questionnaire survey among 82 experienced engineers was used to estimate the required weights per personality trait. A second two-part questionnaire survey aimed at recording the PMs profile and assess the performance of personality traits per PM. PMs with the most years of experience are selected to be ranked through Visual PROMETHEE. Findings The findings suggest that a competent PM is the one that scores low on the “Neuroticism” trait and high especially on the “Conscientiousness” trait. Research limitations/implications The research applied a psychometric test specifically designed for Greek people. Furthermore, the proposed methodology is based on the personality characteristics to rank the PMs and does not consider the technical skills. Furthermore, the type of project is not considered in the process of ranking PMs. Practical implications The findings could contribute in the selection of the best PM that maximizes the project team’s performance. Social implications Improved project team communication and collaboration leading to improved project performance through better communication and collaboration. This is an additional benefit for the society, especially in the delivery of public infrastructure projects. A lot of public infrastructure projects deviate largely as far as cost and schedule is concerned and this is an additional burden for public and society. Proper project management through efficient PMs would save people’s money and time. Originality/value Identification of the best PMbased on a combination of multicriteria decision-making and psychometric tests, which focus on personality traits.

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Biomarkers of Angiogenesis and Neuroplasticity as Promising Clinical Tools for Stroke Recovery Evaluation

International Journal of Molecular Sciences ◽

10.3390/ijms22083949 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (8) ◽

pp. 3949

Author(s):

Lidia Wlodarczyk ◽

Rafal Szelenberger ◽

Natalia Cichon ◽

Joanna Saluk-Bijak ◽

Michal Bijak ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Clinical Practice ◽

Stroke Recovery ◽

Clinical Scales ◽

Recovery Processes ◽

Recovery Potential ◽

Current State ◽

Standard Procedures ◽

Key Issues ◽

Clinical Tools ◽

Selection Of

Several key issues impact the clinical practice of stroke rehabilitation including a patient’s medical history, stroke experience, the potential for recovery, and the selection of the most effective type of therapy. Until clinicians have answers to these concerns, the treatment and rehabilitation are rather intuitive, with standard procedures carried out based on subjective estimations using clinical scales. Therefore, there is a need to find biomarkers that could predict brain recovery potential in stroke patients. This review aims to present the current state-of-the-art stroke recovery biomarkers that could be used in clinical practice. The revision of biochemical biomarkers has been developed based on stroke recovery processes: angiogenesis and neuroplasticity. This paper provides an overview of the biomarkers that are considered to be ready-to-use in clinical practice and others, considered as future tools. Furthermore, this review shows the utility of biomarkers in the development of the concept of personalized medicine. Enhancing brain neuroplasticity and rehabilitation facilitation are crucial concerns not only after stroke, but in all central nervous system diseases.

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