Part A: Scientific Foundations of Digital Governance -- Chapter 1 - Scientific Foundations of Digital Governance - Why, What and How (Yannis Charalabidis,Zoi Lachana, Charalampos Alexopoulos).-Chapter 2 - Digital governance as a scientific concept (Tove Engvall, Leif Skiftenes Flak) -- Chapter 3...

Chapter 1. Estimating Efficiency in the Presence of Extreme Outliers: A Logistic-Half Normal Stochastic Frontier Model with Application to Highway Maintenance Costs in England -- Chapter 2. Alternative User Costs, Productivity and Inequality in US Business Sectors -- Chapter 3. On the Allocation...

Introduction -- Open Data as an Economic, Political, and Technical Phenomenon -- Linked Data for Enrichment of Data Assets -- Big Data Organization Challenge -- Macroeconomic Aspects of Data Value -- Microeconomic Aspects of Data Value -- Business Models for Data -- Geographical Profiling with...

Chapter 1: Background and Emerging Challenges -- Chapter 2: Theory of Fiscal Federalism and Local Fiscal Domain -- Chapter 3: Fiscal Decentralization and Local Area Corporate Social Responsibility -- Chapter 4: Globalization, Climate Change and Changing Face of Urban Public Finance -- Chapter 5:...

Chapter 1. Leadership and Policy Implementation for Good Governance in Africa -- Chapter 2. Challenges to Building Ethics in Public Service in Africa -- Chapter 3. Corporate governance in Zimbabwe’s local authorities: A void in the devolution path -- Chapter 4. The Role of Ethical Orientation...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- PART I:CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK OF COMPARATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION -- Chapter 2: History Development and Future Prospects of Comparative Public Administration -- Chapter 3: A Framework for Comparative Analysis: Public Administration Across the Globe --...

Part 1: Ethics and Ethical Compliance -- Chapter 1:1 Ethics and Accountable Governance in Africa: An Introduction (Kemi Ogunyemi, Isaiah Adisa, and Robert E. Hinson) -- Chapter 2:Ethical Dilemmas and the Changing Reality in Africa’s Public Sector (Nkemdilim Iheanachor and Emmanuel Etim) --...

Part 1: Editorial -- Towards Service Automation in Public Organizations -- Part 2: Conceptualization of Public Sector Service Automation -- The Subject Matter of Process Automation Practices: Through the Lenses of Research Questions -- Understanding Automated Decision-making in the Public...

1. Introduction: Why Emotional Labor Matters in Public Service -- 2. Thinking Globally About the Public Service Work Experience -- 3: Trending Interconnectedness: The Value of Comparative Analysis -- 4. Understanding Emotional Labor at the Individual Level -- 5. Understanding Emotional Labor at...

Chapter 1. Internet of Things and the Public Sector -- Chapter 2. The Internet of Things in a smart society: how government policy can help seize opportunities and mitigate threats -- Chapter 3. Methodologies for a participatory design of IoT to deliver sustainable public services in 'smart...