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Benchmarking and Comparisons of Performance of Local Governments in Germany: Approaches, Advantages and Side Effects
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The article investigates why some German local government make use of performance comparisons to improve their service delivery while others do not. Using ordered logistic regressions the study finds that indebted local governments are more likely to compare their performance against that of others.
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Speyer : German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer, 2016
Jaekel T., Kuhlmann S., der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management 2013 P. 141-160
The way that local authorities in OECD countries compare and benchmark their performance varies widely. This paper explains some of the reasons behind the variations. The current local government benchmarking schemes in Europe? their governance, coverage and impact?largely depend on the institutional characteristics of the respective administrative and local government systems (in other words, the ...
Added: September 28, 2015
L. : Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers (SOLACE) Foundation Imprint, 2014
This SFI pamphlet provides a Policy Briefing on the critical and ubiquitous role being performed by benchmarking in public services both in the UK and internationally. It complements and partly draws on a special issue of Public Money and Management edited by me and Alan Fenna which also addresses these issues, and which includes some ...
Added: March 10, 2017
Bratislava : NISPAcee PREES, 2014
Presented Papers from the 22st NISPAcee Annual Conference. May 22-24, 2014, Budapest, Hungary. Organised in cooperation with Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary and National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary ...
Added: March 29, 2015
Arkatov D., , in : ICEGOV '23: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance. : NY : ACM, 2023. P. 278-285.
How do specific characteristics of public servants impact their attitudes towards e-participation? In the current literature on e-government and e-participation there is surprisingly a little number of articles that cover this issue. Usually, researchers pay their attention to organizational and structural explanations for e-participation adoption and implementation success. This includes economic variables, such as GDP ...
Added: November 6, 2023
Stegailov V., Vecher V., , in : Communications in Computer and Information Science. Book 793: Supercomputing.: Switzerland : Springer, 2017. P. 430-441.
Nowadays, the wide spectrum of Intel Xeon processors is available. The new Zen CPU architecture developed by AMD has extended the number of options for x86_64 HPC hardware. This large number of options makes the optimal CPU choice for HPC systems not a straightforward procedure. Such a co-design procedure should follow the requests from the ...
Added: November 29, 2017
Bratislava : NISPAcee Press, 2017
The book contains selected revised papers from the 25th NISPAcee Annual conference "Innovation Governance in the Public Sector", Kazan, Russia, 18-20 May 2017, organized in cooperation with the Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia. ...
Added: October 11, 2017
Добросоцкий В. И., Левакин И. В., Охотский Е. В., М. : Юрайт, 2023
Перед вами учебник, освещающий все аспекты государственного антикризисного управления. Подробно дана теория: взгляды научного сообщества по этому вопросу. Практическая составляющая: примеры конкретных антикризисных стратегий зарубежных стран, отечественная история антикризисного управления — с начала XX в. по настоящее время.
Рассмотрены трудности, риски и преграды, с которыми сталкивается государство в процессе реализации антикризисной стратегии, в том числе коррупция, бюрократизм, деструктивность внесистемной оппозиции, безответственность.
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Added: October 25, 2022
Kuhlmann S., Jaekel T., , in : Benchmarking for improvement. : L. : Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers (SOLACE) Foundation Imprint, 2014. P. 40-42.
The way performance of local authorities is measured and compared varies widely in the OECD (Kuhlmann, 2004; Kuhlmann, 2010). We refer to ‘benchmarking’ if the objective is to identify best practices in order to draw lessons for one’s own organization (‘learning from the best’); this may also include explaining any performance gaps. If we could ...
Added: March 10, 2017
Jaekel T., Statistics, Politics and Policy 2019 Vol. 10 No. 1 P. 27-53
Centralized inspections face scepticism among local public managers, and voluntary evaluations have become a popular complement. This study uses the Swedish local government benchmarking programme (Kommunens Kvalitet i Korthet) to investigate what correlates with partaking in a benchmarking exercise empirically. This study finds evidence for temporal and spatial clustering: participants cluster geographically at an early ...
Added: April 15, 2019
Dolmatov I. A., Maskaev I. V., Gass T., Journal of Regulatory Economics 2019
In 2015 the Russian energy regulator adopted guidelines to determine the baseline level of operating costs for electricity grid companies based on a combined index model. The regulator intends to use the results directly in the regulatory process for setting tariffs
The main purpose of the study is to analyse the new system of benchmarking, developed ...
Added: October 18, 2018
India : Springer, 2015
The last decade has witnessed significant government focus on service delivery in developing nations like South Africa, Philippines, India and Malaysia. At the forefront of this movement has been the public sector reforms significantly driven by two broad factors: public sector inefficiencies, and liberal economic ideology. This move towards efficient public service delivery in developing ...
Added: October 5, 2014
Dolmatov I. A., Dvorkin V. V., Maskaev I. V., Водное хозяйство России 2015
Deterioration of Russian economic situation affects the economic position of water utilities in Russia. The task to sustain safe and reliable operation and development of the utilities put in focus their efficiency. In order to improve the efficiency of water utilities their management and regulators often adopt performance benchmarking.
This paper investigates the possibility to implement ...
Added: December 3, 2015
Gavrikova E., Volkova I., , in : International Research Conference “GSOM Emerging Markets Conference-2020”. : St. Petersburg State University Graduate School of Management, 2020. P. 322-329.
The goal of this paper is to perform benchmarking of Russian power companies from a strategic asset management point of view. The Russian power industry is undergoing through a transformation that implies introduction of competition and increasing deployment of new technologies which leads to the shrinkage of market opportunities and incumbents have to re- think ...
Added: January 18, 2021
Polat M., Saritas O., Burmaoglu S. et al., Cham : Springer, 2022
This timely book presents a collection of expert insights into the impacts of COVID-19 in a broader socio-economic context. In each chapter, the authors identify the current impact of COVID-19 by demonstrating transformative signals and project these signals to the future by considering their alternative futures and implications.
The book emphasizes that dealing with major global ...
Added: November 21, 2022
Jaekel T., / НИУ ВШЭ. Series WP BRP Series "Public and Social Policy". 2017. No. WP BRP 05/PSP/2017.
In my paper I analyze why some top-level public administrators invite a peer review to learn about the strengths and weaknesses of their agencies while others do not. A peer review is a light-touch voluntary benchmarking exercise conducted by a group of critical friends (peers). I propose a general model from which I derive a ...
Added: March 9, 2017
Jaekel T., / German Research Institute for Public Administration. Series FÖV Discussion Papers "FÖV Discussion Papers". 2013. No. 74.
This articles investigates why some German municipalities compare their performance against each others, while others do not. Using a dataset of 900 German city districts the study finds that indebted municipalities are more likely to use performance benchmarking compared to municipalities with less fiscal stress. ...
Added: March 10, 2017
Rogova E., , in : 8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014". : V : Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2014. P. 164-171.
The purpose of the paper is to reveal factors that may have importance for Russian oil-extracting companies’ sufficiency and investments appeal. At the emerging markets, due to asymmetric information and lack of transparency, investors can make adequate conclusions on their investments in a special company only if they know and understand correctly its business model. ...
Added: July 21, 2014
Rodriges Zalipynis R. A., PROCEEDINGS OF THE VLDB ENDOWMENT 2021 Vol. 14 No. 12 P. 3186-3189
Array DBMSs strive to be the best systems for managing, processing, and even visualizing big N-d arrays. The last decade blossomed with R&D in array DBMS, making it a young and fast-evolving area. We present the first comprehensive tutorial on array DBMS R&D. We start from past impactful results that are still relevant today, then ...
Added: June 4, 2021
Jaekel T., Kuhlmann S., Verwaltung & Management 2012 Vol. 18 No. 3 P. 131-135
The article compares the use of performance benchmarking exercises at the local level of goverment in Germany and Switzerland. ...
Added: September 28, 2015
Черткова А. В., Теория и практика общественного развития 2022 № 5 С. 46-50
The author discusses the vector of reforming accounting and reporting in the state-financed organisations,
including the higher education sector in Russia. The state policy in the field of standardization of the
public sector is mainly considered. Changes in the accounting and reporting of Russian higher education institutions
related to the introduction of federal public finance accounting standards (FSBUGF) ...
Added: January 31, 2024
Bratislava : NISPAcee Press, 2014
The book contains selected revised papers from the 21st NISPAcee Annual conference "Regionalization and Inter-regional Cooperation", Belgrade, Serbia, 16-18 May 2013, organized in cooperation with the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. ...
Added: February 20, 2016
Kergroach S., Meissner D., Vonortas N., Economics of Innovation and New Technology 2018 Vol. 27 No. 5-6 P. 510-530
The article highlights the challenges of benchmarking the science, technology and innovation (STI) policy mix between countries. A benchmarking concept is developed to compare policies across countries, which takes account of country structural features, the way policies are embedded in the national STI policy context and the country’s development stage. We focus on policies aiming ...
Added: December 1, 2017
Brazhnikov F., Макарова О. А., В кн. : ЭФФЕКТИВНОСТЬ ТРУДА И КАЧЕСТВО ТРУДОВОЙ ЖИЗНИ XXI ВЕКА. : Скифия-принт, 2020. С. 44-55.
Using benchmarking could enlarge the information for occupational structure analysis of Saint Petersburg labor market. Based on the example of five largest pharmaceutical resident companies we provide the results of benchmarking analysis, showing occupational structure to the level of a profession, that could be identified in All-Russian Classifier of Occupations. We suggest implementing benchmarking for ...
Added: June 9, 2020
Bratislava : NISPAcee PREES, 2013
Presented Papers from the 21st NISPAcee Annual Conference (from working groups and working sessions) May 16 - 18, 2013, Belgrade, Serbia. Organised in cooperation with the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia ...
Added: March 29, 2015