Bureaucracy Reformation: Open Government Partnership as a change strategy in Bojonegoro regency

Desperately Avoiding Bureaucracy: Modularity as a Strategy for Organisational Innovation

Back in the 1960s, it was established that bureaucracy and innovation tend to oppose each other. However not many “innovative” organisations have managed to banish bureaucracy altogether. Topicus, a young software house in the Netherlands, has done this. It has developed an organisational strategy that creates a “spin-off” whenever the organisation becomes too large and is in danger of losing i...

Germany’s Local Bureaucracy in the Era of Social Media - From Advanced eGovernment to Affordable Open Government

Germany’s local governments face considerable pressures: Budget restrictions, increasing citizens’ expectations concerning service quality, sociodemographic distractions, and environmental issues – to name just a few. From the beginning of the Internet era, governments have tried to exploit modern ICT. For some time now, the focus has been on a new eGovernment dimension: Open Government. The ba...

Government Value Paradigms - Bureaucracy, New Public Management, and E-Government

E-government and organizational change: Reappraising the role of ICT and bureaucracy in public service delivery

Available online 12 May 2015

Bringing Change in Government Organizations: Evolution Towards Post-Bureaucracy with Web-Based IT Projects

This paper examines the following question: How do government organizations become more “post-bureaucratic” with web-based IT projects? It draws on evolutionary thinking to conceptualize processes of change in government organizations as involving sequences of variation, selection, and retention as well as to identify various sources of change: internal ones (e.g. administrators), as well as ex...