Administrative strategies are essential for ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in public institutions, particularly in the context of low- and middle-income countries where governance challenges and resource constraints persist. This study analyzes the relationship between organizational...

The increasing pressure for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) accountability in publicly funded institutions has raised concerns about the authenticity and efficiency of ESG implementation. This study investigates the relationship between public ESG funding, disclosure quality, and...

This report presents the results of our audit of the agencies for the 2024 financial year. For simplification, we refer to the agencies using their acronyms instead of their full names. A list of all agencies and their acronyms is provided at the beginning of the report. The report is structured...

This handbook on crisis communication is primarily for public institutions, such as governments or international organisations, and comes with the recognition that crisis communication is more complex for public institutions than for private companies. Public institutions must balance different...

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT), investigates whether EU institutions implement human rights and sustainability due diligence when they purchase goods and services. Based on documentary analysis and interviews, this study finds that...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on public institutions management system which imposed a digital transformation of all processes. This study explores how integrating digitalization improves management processes within Romanian public organizations. It is based on a survey approach and on...

The governance of any organisation comprises a system of rules, practises, and procedures that guide and control the organisation. The case study examines the processes, procedures, activities, and problems of decision-making at the level of Slovenian ministries in terms of compliance with...

This report presents the results of our annual audit of the EU agencies and other EU bodies (collectively referred to as 'the agencies') for the 2023 financial year. For simplification, we refer to the agencies using their acronyms instead of their full names. A list of all agencies and their...

This report presents the results of our annual audit of the EU agencies and other EU bodies (collectively referred to as 'the agencies') for the 2022 financial year. The report is structured as follows: Chapter 1 describes the agencies and the nature of our audits. Chapter 2 presents the overall...

This study analyzes the determinant factors contributing to the competitiveness of public institutions. To reach the aim of the study, we have identified seven determinant factors: employee development, employee performance, organizational communication, work organization, digitalization of...

This paper proposes a new Green Government IT index to assess the environmentally responsible use of computers and other resources by the information technology departments of government institutions and nonprofit organizations. The methodology used in the paper relies on the established...

The study on how is Internal Control System developed in public institutions is of a special importance for modalities, forms and the manner of the application of relevant strategies for the functioning of internal control environment in public institutions. In this paper, is treated the...

A well-functioning Internal Control System in the Public Institutions should be followed with a particular attention in increasing the performance of managing, executing and financial reporting in the public institutions. The Internal Control System should be correlated to transparency of...

In the face of challenging conditions, governments in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) remain committed to delivering better outcomes for their citizens. Public trust in government is critical to these efforts. This report presents the main findings of the OECD's first Trust Survey in LAC....

This report examines Australians' trust in their public institutions and explores ways to strengthen that trust. Trust in public institutions has become increasingly critical for effective democratic governance, especially when tackling challenges such as digital transformation and climate...

This report presents the results of our annual audit of the EU agencies and other EU bodies (collectively referred to as 'the agencies') for the 2021 financial year, as well as additional agency-related audit results from other tasks such as special audits or opinions. In this report, for...

The study addresses the issue of the management of public institutions in Romania by reviewing the main approaches presented in the specialized literature. The research identifies and describes the characteristics and functions of the management of public institutions as well as the main...

This paper addresses the issue of complexity in the administrative processes in public institutions; in particular, accounting routines and processes are examined. Back-office activities, although having a merely supporting role in the delivery of public services, are often quite complex and use...

Inconvenient information about the performance of public institutions may undermine public trust. In an experiment, I test how information about sentencing disparities among judges in the Czech Republic affects respondents’ perception of the judicial system. I find no effect on respondents’...

Within many large states there are multiple 2-year and 4-year public institutions. Our paper develops a methodology that can be used to help evaluate how well each 2-year public institution in a state is doing in preparing those of its students who transfer to 4-year public institutions to...

This report presents the main findings of the second OECD cross-national Survey on Drivers of Trust in Public Institutions, carried out in late 2023. With nearly 60 000 responses, representative of the adult population in 30 OECD countries, the survey investigated how people's expectations and...

Drivers of Trust in Public Institutions in Chile was undertaken as part of Chile's State Modernisation Agenda 2022-2026. Based on results of the 2023 OECD Trust Survey and over fifty qualitative interviews with key national stakeholders, the study offers in-depth and comparative analysis of...

This paper investigates the relative importance of confidence in public institutions to explain cross-country differences in the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. We extend the related literature by employing regression and machine learning methods to identify the most critical predictors of...

A public option is a government-provided social good that exists alongside a similar privately provided good. While the public option is typically identified with health care policy, public options have been a longstanding feature of American life in a variety of sectors, ranging from libraries...

This report presents the results of our annual audit of the EU agencies and other Union bodies (collectively referred to as 'the agencies') for the financial year 2020, as well as additional agency related audit results from other tasks such as special audits or opinions. The report is...

In this paper, we tackle the issue of locating a public facility which provides a public good in a closed and populated territory. This facility generates differentiated benefits to neighborhoods depending on their distance from it. In the case of a Nimby facility, the smaller is the distance,...

I explore consequences of publishing inconvenient information about the performance of public institutions. To understand how citizens would respond to such information, I conducted a survey experiment in which respondents were informed about sentencing disparity in the Czech Republic caused by...