Socio-Technical Determinants of Information Security Perceptions in US Local Governments

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Eunjung Shin ◽  
Eric W. Welch
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Decentralized Decision Making ◽  
Using Data

Concerns about electronic information security in government have increased alongside increased use of online media. However, to date, few studies have examined the social mechanisms influencing electronic information security. This article applies a socio-technical framework to model how technical, organizational and environmental complexities limit electronic information security perceived by local government managers. Furthermore, it examines to what extent organizational design buffers security risks. Using data from a 2010 national survey of local government managers, this article empirically tests the proposed model in the context of U.S. local government's online media use. Findings show that, in addition to technical complexity, organizational and environmental complexities are negatively associated with local managers' awareness of and confidence in electronic information security. On the other hand, internal security policy and decentralized decision-making appear to buffer security risks and enhance perceived information security.

Socio-Technical Determinants of Information Security Perceptions in US Local Governments

2020 ◽  
pp. 2295-2317
Author(s):  
Eunjung Shin ◽  
Eric W. Welch
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
Using Data

Concerns about electronic information security in government have increased alongside increased use of online media. However, to date, few studies have examined the social mechanisms influencing electronic information security. This article applies a socio-technical framework to model how technical, organizational and environmental complexities limit electronic information security perceived by local government managers. Furthermore, it examines to what extent organizational design buffers security risks. Using data from a 2010 national survey of local government managers, this article empirically tests the proposed model in the context of U.S. local government's online media use. Findings show that, in addition to technical complexity, organizational and environmental complexities are negatively associated with local managers' awareness of and confidence in electronic information security. On the other hand, internal security policy and decentralized decision-making appear to buffer security risks and enhance perceived information security.

State Legislation Restricting and Enabling Local Governments in an Era of Preemption

2021 ◽  
pp. 0160323X2110384
Author(s):  
Keith Boeckelman ◽  
Jonathan Day
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Divided Government ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
State Legislation ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Using Data

This paper assesses state efforts to both restrict and enable local government discretion by using data from Project Vote Smart's “Key Votes” database. The results show that state legislation, both successful and unsuccessful, is more likely to limit local autonomy than to enhance it, although both tendencies occur. Republican legislators are more likely to support efforts to restrict discretion than Democrats are. Further, preemption attempts are particularly evident on “hot button” issues, such as guns, sexuality and gender roles, and immigration, although such initiatives are not necessarily more likely to successfully become law, especially under conditions of divided government.

Assessing information security risks in the cloud: A case study of Australian local government authorities

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 101419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Ali ◽  
Anup Shrestha ◽  
Akemi Chatfield ◽  
Peter Murray
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Security Risks

scholarly journals State Legislative Ideology & the Preemption of City Ordinances: The Case of Worker Rights Laws

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
The State ◽  
Worker Rights ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Legislative Activity ◽  
Using Data ◽  
State Legislative ◽  
Local Government Policy

This article discusses the influence of state legislative ideology on the legislative preemption of local ordinances in the area of worker rights. States define the powers of local governments within their purview and states may use this power to restrict local governments from pursuing certain policies. Using data on state legislative activity and ideology from 1993 to 2016, I find within-state increases in legislative ideology, indicating increased legislative conservatism, associated with an increased risk of preempting local government policy, all else equal. This finding is robust to a number of alternate specifications and hypotheses. Ideology appears to play an important role in the decision to involve the state in the affairs of local governments.

Strategic Knowledge Management in Local Government

2011 ◽  
pp. 268-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Strategic Knowledge ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Knowledge Processes ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Strategic Knowledge Management

The success of public organizations depends increasingly on how efficiently they utilize internal and external knowledge resources in adjusting to contextual changes. This requires a special emphasis on strategic knowledge management. Referring to the theoretical and empirical works of Nonaka, Blackler, Daft and Lengel, this contribution considers how organizational design can be used to facilitate the processes in which knowledge is gathered, created, processed, used and demolished in order to build an enriched knowledge base to deal with adjustment and development issues of strategic importance. This theme is discussed with special reference to local government. The main conclusion is that uncertainty and ambiguity increased in the last decades of the 20th century, and that local governments need new management tools to respond to this change. The challenge of knowledge management in local government is to manage knowledge processes concerning ICT-based information provision, interaction and transactions. They are needed to form an enriched knowledge-intensive orientation base that serves the strategic adjustment and trend-making processes in the context of information society development.

scholarly journals Corporate information security management

1999 ◽  
Vol 100 (5) ◽  
pp. 213-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth C. Mitchell ◽  
Rita Marcella ◽  
Graeme Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Security Management ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Security Risks ◽  
Information Security Management ◽  
Security Breaches ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
It Department ◽  
Corporate Information

To ensure business continuity the security of corporate information is extremely important. Previous studies have shown that corporate information is vulnerable to security attacks. Companies are losing money through security breaches. This paper describes an MSc project that aimed to investigate the issues surrounding corporate information security management. Postal questionnaires and telephone interviews were used. Findings indicate that companies are not proactively tackling information security management and thus are not prepared for security incidents when they occur. Reasons for this lack of action include: awareness of information security threats is restricted; management and awareness of information security is concentrated around the IT department; electronic information is viewed as an intangible business asset; potential security risks of Internet access have not been fully assessed; and surveyed companies have not yet encountered security problems, and therefore are unprepared to invest in security measures. The recommendations include that companies: carry out a formal risk analysis; move information security management from being an IT‐centric function; and alter perceptions towards electronic information so that information is viewed as a valuable corporate asset.

Local government retail incentives for healthier food retailers in the USA, 2014

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (13) ◽  
pp. 2521-2529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha J Lange ◽  
Latetia V Moore ◽  
Deborah A Galuska
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Farmers Markets ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
Food Retail ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data

AbstractObjective:National public health organizations recommend that local governments improve access to healthy foods. One way is by offering incentives for food retailer development and operation, but little is known about incentive use nationwide. We aimed to describe the national prevalence of local government reported incentives to increase access to healthy food options in three major food retail settings (farmers’ markets, supermarkets, and convenience or corner (smaller) stores) overall and by municipality characteristics.Design:Cross-sectional study using data from the 2014 National Survey of Community-Based Policy and Environmental Supports for Healthy Eating and Active Living.Setting:USA, nationally representative survey of 2029 municipalities.Participants:Municipal officials (e.g. city/town managers or planners; n 1853).Results:Overall, 67 % of municipalities reported incentives to support farmers’ markets, 34 % reported incentives to encourage opening new supermarkets, and 14 % reported incentives to help existing convenience or corner stores. Municipality characteristics significantly associated with incentive use were larger population size (all settings), location in Midwest v. West (supermarkets, smaller stores), higher poverty level (farmers’ markets) and ≤50 % of the population non-Hispanic White (supermarkets, smaller stores). The most commonly reported individual incentives were permission of sales on city property for farmers’ markets, tax credits for supermarkets and linkage to revitalization projects for smaller stores.Conclusions:Most municipalities offered food retail incentives for farmers’ markets, but fewer used incentives to open new supermarkets or assist existing smaller stores. National data can set benchmarks, provide relative comparisons for communities and identify areas for improvement.

scholarly journals Causes and Consequences of Local Government Efforts to Reduce Risk and Adapt to Extreme Weather Events: Municipal Organizational Robustness

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7980
Author(s):  
Patricio Valdivieso ◽  
Pablo Neudorfer ◽  
Krister P. Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Government Investment ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
Institutional Relations ◽  
Using Data

This research article investigates the causes and consequences of municipal institutional arrangements for the provision of resilient critical infrastructure in municipalities. The study explains how the municipal organizational robustness and external institutional dynamics moderate the relation between capacities, leadership, and local government investment decisions. We examine hypotheses on moderating effects with regression methods, using data from 345 Chilean municipalities over a nine-year period, and analyzing the evidence with support of qualitative data. Our results reveal that municipal organizational robustness—operational rules, planning, managerial flexibility and integration, and accountability—is the most quantitatively outstanding moderating factor. The evidence leads us to deduce that efforts to support local governments in the emerging policy domain of resilient critical infrastructure require special attention to the robustness of municipal institutional arrangements. The results are valid for countries where the local governments have responsibilities to fulfill and their decisions have consequences for the adaptation. Since one of the objectives of the Special Issue “Bringing Governance Back Home—Lessons for Local Government Regarding Rapid Climate Action” is to explore how action is enabled or constrained by institutional relations in which the actors are embedded, this study contributes to achieving the goal.

scholarly journals Local Government Respond to COVID-19 Pandemics: A Study of South Tangerang City

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-92
Author(s):  
Evi Satispi ◽  
Retnowati Wahyuning DyasTuti ◽  
Aqil Teguh Fathani ◽  
Phimlikid Kaewhanam
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
City Government ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Society ◽  
The Government ◽  
Main Instrument

This study aims to analyze local governments' efforts in promoting and implementing policies issued during COVID-19. It can also be seen what instruments are used by the government in the socialization of the policy, and the communication between local government officials and the media, society, and business can be seen. The method used in this research is descriptive with a qualitative approach to see the stages of communication in their role in socializing the Tangerang City Government's policies. The results showed that a policy's socialization had gone very well through various socialization of communications such as online media, print media, and electronic media. This type of socialization media is the main instrument of the Tangerang local government in disseminating policies. Another type of socialization is direct media or outreach to each village. It is recommended that the Tangerang City Government improve its performance in disseminating policies to achieve the resulting policy objectives to build public order towards the policies taken.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PERBANDINGAN KINERJA KEUANGAN PEMERINTAH PROPINSI SUMATERA BARAT DENGAN PROPINSI RIAU

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Warnida Warnida
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Better Than

This study aims to determine the financial performance of local governments in West Sumatera, Riau Province and to compare the financial performance of local governments in West Sumatra Province of Riau Province. This research was conducted at the local government of West Sumatra and Riau province using data derived from the financial statements of each of the provinces. The data used in this research is secondary data, Budgets and Budget Realization Report (LRA) provincial government West Sumatra and Riau in 2007 until 2009. The results of this study indicate that the degree of independence of the local government of West Sumatra province on average better than the local government of Riau Province. The effectiveness of local governments Riau province on average higher than the regional government of West Sumatra province. Keywords: government financial performance, level of independence, the level of effectiveness, Growth level

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