Effective government matters, but what is it? Good governance indicators go some way to
provide a definition, but how much do they say about what effectiveness is, why this is so …

Work on good governance implies a one‐best‐way model of effective government. This has
isomorphic influences on development, whereby governments are influenced to adopt a one …

The question of how to measure and improve productivity in services has been a recurrent
topic in political debates and in academic studies for several decades. The concept of …

This article reviews how workers employed by the state are understood by economic and
political geographers. To fully understand the politics of work in this sector, one must …

So-called governance indicators for assessing and comparing institutional quality of
countries are increasingly used in research and in policymaking. Initially, these indicators …

Measuring and comparing the overall performance of countries' public sectors requires
agreement on definitions and objectives of government. I argue that such an agreement is …

Purpose–A number of studies and indicators have ranked European countries in terms of
the performance of their public sectors. This paper aims to demonstrate that there are …

'If we do not cut social spending, we will end up like Greece'. Establishment politicians and
media figures use this new ideological mantra throughout the Western world to frighten …

This article applies FIMIX-PLS segmentation methodology to detect and explore
unanticipated reactions to organisational strategy among stakeholder segments. For many …

During the past two decades a big effort has been made in exploring the complementarities
between information and communications technology (ICT) adoption, investment in human …