Evaluating and planning information systems in the public sector: The case of Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-665
Author(s):  
Yong Uk Cha ◽  
Min Jae Park
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Cost Efficiency ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Public ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The Status ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
And Task

This study proposes a framework for the interim evaluation of, and subsequent planning for, information systems (IS) in the public sector. We incorporate the considerations of cost efficiency and task effectiveness, which are critical for reaping a sustained benefit from IS. We recommend this double-sided analysis as the basis for interim evaluation. We also advise that this framework of evaluation can effectively indicate which subsequent course of action should be taken: maintain the status quo, upgrade functionality, redevelop, or discontinue the IS. We applied this framework to 118 ISs within the South Korean public sector with the k-means clustering method and provided both academic and practical implications.

Public entrepreneurship and the economics of reform

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAN SCHNELLENBACH
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Status ◽  
Schumpeterian Approach

Abstract:Public entrepreneurship is commonly understood as the outcome of the activities of a Schumpeterian political innovator. However, empirical research suggests that changes to a more efficient economic policy, even if it is known and technically easy to implement, are usually delayed. This is difficult to reconcile with Schumpeterian notions of public entrepreneurship. In this paper, it is argued that the attempt to transfer a Schumpeterian approach to the public sector is fundamentally flawed. Institutional checks and balances that characterize most modern liberal democracies make the strategy of bold leadership an unlikely choice for an incumbent. If change occurs, it occurs normally as a response to the fact that the status quo has become untenable. From a normative point of view, it is argued that if public entrepreneurship nevertheless occurs, it will often be associated with unwanted consequences. A dismantling of formal institutional checks and balances is therefore not reasonable.

scholarly journals La Administración Pública en la era del cambio exponencial. Hacia una gobernanza exploratoria

2019 ◽  
pp. 52-73
Author(s):  
Francisco LONGO MARTÍNEZ
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Public System ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Basic Features

Laburpena: Globalizazioak eta teknologia bat-batean sartzeak aldaketa azkarrak eragin dituzte, eta horiek jarduera ekonomikoaren sektore guztiei eragiten diete. Horiek horrela, sistema publikoek erronka garrantzitsuei egin beharko diete aurre. Aldaketa horietako batzuek berekin dakartzaten kanpo-efektu negatiboen ondorioz sortzen dira erronketako batzuk, edo, bestela, pertsonen eta gizarteen egonkortasuna, ziurtasuna eta babesa ahal den heinean sustatzeko beharraren ondorioz. Beste erronka batzuek, berriz, egoera berriek berekin dakartzaten aurrera egiteko aukera handiekin dute zerikusia, bai eta horiek baliatze aldera sektore publikoak hartu behar duen lidergo rol ordezkaezinarekin ere. Bi erronka-mota horiek administrazioa behartzen dute muturreko eta anbizio handiko berrikuntza-agenda bere gain hartzera. Agenda horren norainokoaren eraginez, sektore publikoak statu quoaren bereizgarri diren oinarrizko erakunde arteko akordioetako batzuk aztertu eta berriz diseinatu behar ditu. Lan honek aztertzen du zein diren egin beharreko oinarrizko eraldaketak, zer tresna behar diren esku hartzeko, eta zer dilema kudeatu behar diren. Horrez gain, gobernantza-ikuspegi berriaren funtsezko ezaugarriak aurkezten ditu. Eredu horrek aukera emango die gobernuei eta beren erakundeei esplorazioaren eta esperimentazioaren bidean murgiltzeko, eta sistema publikotik at kokatutako eragileekin lankidetzan aritzera irekitzeko, aldi berean gizarteari erantzuteko eta haren aurrean kontu emateko eskakizunen maila handiari eutsiz. Resumen: En el entorno de cambios acelerados que la globalización y la disrupción tecnológica han creado, y que afecta a todos los sectores de actividad económica, los sistemas públicos afrontan desafíos importantes. Una parte de esos desafíos dimanan de las externalidades negativas que algunos de esos cambios llevan consigo, y de la necesidad de proveer en lo posible de estabilidad, certidumbre y protección a las personas y a las sociedades. Otra parte tiene que ver con las enormes oportunidades de progreso que los nuevos escenarios traen consigo, y con el insustituible rol de liderazgo que el sector público está llamado a asumir para aprovecharlas. Ambos tipos de reto obligan a la Administración a asumir una agenda de innovación ambiciosa y radical. El alcance de esa agenda obliga al sector público a reconsiderar y rediseñar algunos de los arreglos institucionales básicos que caracterizan al statu quo actual. Este trabajo analiza las transformaciones básicas que resultan necesarias, el instrumental de intervención que exigen, y los dilemas que necesitarán ser gestionados. También presenta los rasgos básicos de un nuevo enfoque de gobernanza capaz de permitir a los gobiernos y sus organizaciones adentrarse en la vía de la exploración, la experimentación y la apertura a la colaboración con actores situados fuera del sistema público, manteniendo al mismo tiempo alta las exigencias de responder y rendir cuentas ante la sociedad. Abstract: Public administrations are facing major challenges within the milieu of accelerated changes generated by globalisation and technological disruption and that affected all economic sectors. A certain percentage of these challenges arise from the negative externalities of some of these changes, and the need to provide stability, certainty and protection to individuals and societies as much as possible. Another part of these challenges are linked to the huge opportunities for progress that go hand-in-hand with the new scenarios and the irreplaceable role of leadership taken by the public sector to take full advantage of them. Both types of .challenge have forced the Administration to undertake an ambitiously innovative and radical agenda The scope of this agenda has forced the public sector to rethink and redesign some of the basic institutional arrangements that characterise the status quo. This paper analyses the basic transformations necessary, the required instruments of intervention and the dilemmas that need to be managed. It also presents the basic features of a new governance approach capable of enabling governments and their organisations to pursue the path of exploration, experimentation and openness to collaboration with stakeholders outside of the public system, while also upholding the requirements to respond and be accountable to society.

scholarly journals Norms and Creativity: Tensions Between the Status Quo and Innovation in Quality Standards for Public Service Interpreting in the United Kingdom

Linguaculture ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
Brooke Townsley
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Status ◽  
Professional Registration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Assessment Procedures ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This article will examine the validity of existing assessment procedures in the UK and compare and contrast these models with other possible assessment and accreditation models. It will also examine the possibilities for quality assessment (QA) procedures offered by the use of digital technologies. Implicit in this descriptive and analytical process will be an examination of the linkages between these models of assessment and the opportunity for professional registration. Issues addressed in this article will be: the status quo in the assessment and registration of interpreters and translators for the public sector in the UK; the impact of new social, political and economic realities on the existing assessment and registration regime; the opportunities and/or threats to quality norms represented by online digital technologies. The material will be of particular interest to: end users of interpreter and translator services in the public sector; interpreting and translation test developers and QA procedure designers; interpreting and translating practitioners, in-service and aspiring

Otra vez los consorcios administrativos: novedades introducidas por la Ley 40/2015 de régimen jurídico del sector público

2016 ◽  
pp. 473-513
Author(s):  
Francisco TOSCANO GIL
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
State Legislation ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Status

LABURPENA: Sektore publikoaren araubide juridikoari buruzko urriaren 1eko 40/2015 Legea administrazio-partzuergoen lege-araubidearen hirugarren erreforma da urte pare bateko epearen barruan, eta berriro aldatu du erakunde horien status quo delakoa. Azken erreforma hau, neurri handi batean, aurreko bi erreformen bategitea den arren, berritasun nabarmen batzuk ere ekarri ditu eta, horiekin batera, zenbait zuzenketa tekniko ere bai, guztiak ere lan honetan aztertu nahi izan direnak. Estatuko oinarrizko legerian sartu diren berritasunen artean bi behintzat azpimarratzekoak dira: bata da salbuespen bat sartu zaiola partzuergoko langileak berorretan parte hartzen duten Administrazioetatik datozenak soilik izan daitezkeela zioen arauari, eta bestea, partzuergoan sartzea ahalbidetzen zaien erakunde pribatuei jada ez zaiela eskatzen irabazi asmorik gabekoak izatea. RESUMEN: La Ley 40/2015, de 1 de octubre, de régimen jurídico del sector público es la tercera reforma del régimen legal de los consorcios administrativos en un plazo de apenas dos años, volviendo a alterar nuevamente el status quo de estas entidades. Aunque esta última reforma es en gran medida una refundición de las dos reformas anteriores, también introduce algunas novedades significativas, así como algunas correcciones técnicas, que constituyen el objeto de este trabajo. Entre las novedades introducidas por la legislación estatal básica deben destacarse dos: la introducción de una excepción a la regla de que el personal del consorcio proceda exclusivamente de las Administraciones participantes, y la supresión de la exigencia de que las entidades privadas a las que se permite integrarse en el consorcio lo sean sin ánimo de lucro. ABSTRACT : Act 40/2015 of October 1st on the legal regime of the public sector is the third reform to the legal regime of administrative consortiums in no longer than two years, where the status quo of those entities has been changed again. Although this last reform is to a great extent a recast of the two previous reforms, it also introduces substantial novelties, together with some technical amendments and that is this works’ purpose. Outstanding among the novelties introduced by the basic State legislation are two: the introduction of an excepction to the rule that the consortium’s staff belongs only to the participating administrations and the abolition of the requirement that private entities part of a consortium shall be non-profit bodies.

PENGARUH SISTEM INFORMASI AKUNTANSI DAN TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI TERHADAP KINERJA PELAYANAN DI SEKTOR PUBLIK

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hari Wahyudi
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Test Reliability ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Performance Information ◽  
Accounting Information Systems ◽  
The Public

This study aimed to investigate the influence of accounting information systems and technology to service performance information on the public sector. Samples in this study were RS. M. Djamil in Padang, PLN, PDAM in Padang and taken at random (purposive sampling). Of the 122 questionnaires had been distributed only 85 questionnaires could be processed. Test Equipment used to test the validity of this study is the test, Test Reliability, Test for multicollinearity, coefficient Determination Test, and the t test, results of this study are: (a) The first hypothesis tests can be concluded that the accounting information systems has significant influence on performance in service sector public. (2) Information technology does not significantly influence the performance of services in the public sector.

State contestations in constructions of 1Malaysia

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-65
Author(s):  
Mary Varghese ◽  
Kamila Ghazali
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Public ◽  
Malaysian Population ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article seeks to contribute to the existing body of knowledge about the relationship between political discourse and national identity. 1Malaysia, introduced in 2009 by Malaysia’s then newly appointed 6th Prime Minister Najib Razak, was greeted with expectation and concern by various segments of the Malaysian population. For some, it signalled a new inclusiveness that was to change the discourse on belonging. For others, it raised concerns about changes to the status quo of ethnic issues. Given the varying responses of society to the concept of 1Malaysia, an examination of different texts through the critical paradigm of CDA provide useful insights into how the public sphere has attempted to construct this notion. Therefore, this paper critically examines the Prime Minister’s early speeches as well as relevant chapters of the socioeconomic agenda, the 10th Malaysia Plan, to identify the referential and predicational strategies employed in characterising 1Malaysia. The findings suggest a notion of unity that appears to address varying issues.

Marketing and delivering information literacy on the web, yesterday and today, from 2009 to 2012

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Q. Yang
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Status ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
The Web ◽  
Made In

Purpose – This study aims to ascertain the trends and changes of how academic libraries market and deliver information literacy (IL) on the web. Design/methodology/approach – The author compares the findings from two separate studies that scanned the Web sites for IL-related activities in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Findings – Academic libraries intensified their efforts to promote and deliver IL on the web between 2009 and 2012. There was a significant increase in IL-related activities on the web in the three-year period. Practical implications – The findings describe the status quo and changes in IL-related activities on the libraries’ Web sites. This information may help librarians to know what they have been doing and if there is space for improvement. Originality/value – This is the only study that spans three years in measuring the progress librarians made in marketing and delivering IL on the Web.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Statements in the U. S. Creative Sector: Progress, or More Bullshit?

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Antonio C. Cuyler
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Arts Organizations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Organizations ◽  
The Status ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

This article represents a snapshot and analysis of U. S. service arts organizations’ DEI statements and activities in 2018. At that time, many primarily White-serving U. S. cultural organizations responded defensively to accusations of elitism and a harmful rigged funding system that maintained the status quo by awarding most cultural funding to these organizations while undermining the health and vitality of cultural organizations by and for historically oppressed communities (Sidford, 2011). Furthermore, Helicon Collaborative (2017) found that even with a host of cultural equity, “diversity” projects (Tseng 2016), and public-facing DEI statements, little had changed within six years. Therefore, this study uses directed and summative content analysis to investigate the research question “what do cultural equity and diversity statements communicate about cultural organizations’ positions on DEI?” This study also uses Frankfurt’s (2005) essay On Bullshit and Laing’s (2016) two-prong definition of accountability as a theoretical framework to examine if and how cultural organizations hold themselves accountable for achieving DEI in the creative sector. Lastly, readers should keep in mind that the public murder of Geor-ge Floyd in 2020 has hastened all of the service arts organizations’ access, diversity, equity, and inclusion (ADEI) work examined in this study.

scholarly journals Bella Abzug, queer rights, and disrupting the status quo

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trevor G Gates ◽  
Margery C Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Field Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status

Workers who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)-identified have always been a part of the workplace in the United States, yet there has been a lack of awareness about how to advocate for the needs of these people. This lack of awareness was challenged by Congresswoman Bella Abzug. Abzug’s campaign for creating an equal working environment for sexual minorities initiated gradual changes in the public discourse concerning workplace and other broad equality measures for these communities. To frame these gradual transformations within a historical context, we use Lewin’s force field analysis framework to examine the change efforts of Abzug. Abzug had beginning success in thawing the status quo yet her visions for equality for LGBTQ people have yet to be realized. Using Abzug’s social action as an example, this article concludes that allies must continue to challenge societal oppression, power, and privilege and to demand civil rights protections for LGBTQ individuals.

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