Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy: Volume 14 Issue 3

Government at risk: between distributed risks and threats and effective policy-responses

Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis D. Lytras

The purpose of this paper is to contextualise and examine critically the collection of the papers dealing with the broad and multi-faceted question of risk, threats and challenges…

Multilateralism and international governmental organizations: principles and instruments

Aleksander Surdej

The purpose of this paper is to build a conceptual framework helping to understand the relationship between the principle of multilateralism in global policy relations and the…

Information and telecommunications diplomacy in the context of international security at the United Nations

Christian Pauletto

The development of technologies for the conduct of cyber operations represents an opportunity for states to defend their interests in international relations but also bears risks…

Global e-government development: besides the relative wealth of countries, do policies matter?

Gonçalo Paiva Dias

This study aims to investigate whether, discounting the effect of the relative wealth of countries, it is possible to observe the relevance of policies for e-government…

Roadmap to digitalisation of an emerging economy: a viewpoint

Manas Paul, Parijat Upadhyay, Yogesh K. Dwivedi

This paper posits a critical analysis of digitalisation initiatives of emerging economies with a focus on India. It suggests granular policy measures towards realising the dream…

Optimum spending on cybersecurity measures

Tara Kissoon

This purpose of this paper is to provide insight through analysis of the data collected from a pilot study, into the decision-making process used by organizations in cybersecurity…

Non-kinetic hybrid threats in Europe – the Portuguese case study (2017-18)

Felipe Pathe Duarte

This paper aims to understand whether Portugal, being a relatively peripheral country – in political, economic and military terms – of Southwest Europe, was recently a target of…

The impact of risk management on revenue protection: an empirical evidence from Jordan customs

Tariq Al-Shbail

Customs risk management has been widely recognized as a powerful tool to balance between trade facilitation and revenue maximization. However, most customs administrations…

Looking for a safe-haven in a crisis-driven Venezuela: The Caracas stock exchange vs gold, oil and bitcoin

Ida Musialkowska, Agata Kliber, Katarzyna Świerczyńska, Paweł Marszałek

This paper aims to find, which of the assets: gold, oil or bitcoin can be considered a safe-haven for investors in a crisis-driven Venezuela. The authors look also at the…

Synthesizing e-government maturity model: a public value paradigm towards digital Pakistan

Sohail Raza Chohan, Guangwei Hu, Wenfeng Si, Ahmad Tisman Pasha

This study aims to fulfill the research gap by suggesting an appropriate and adaptable e-government (e-gov) maturity model for Pakistan not just in the abstract pattern relatively…

Predictors for the adoption of e-democracy: an empirical evaluation based on a citizen-centric approach

Omar Hujran, Emad Abu-Shanab, Ali Aljaafreh

This study aims to explore the factors influencing the intention to use e-democracy. The literature depicted conflicting results regarding such domain and especially in the Middle…

The role of e-democracy in Italy and Hungary

Anna Molnár, Anna Urbanovics

This paper aims to investigate the mechanisms behind the development of e-democracy. The contrasting cases of Italy and Hungary are selected as the case studies. With the…

A model for evaluating eHealth preparedness – a case study approach

Salifu Yusif, Abdul Hafeez-Baig, Jeffrey Soar

This paper aims to validate an initially developed e-Health readiness assessment model.