agricultural experts in the field of biotechnology in iran were surveyed in order to explore theirperception about factors affecting the partnership between public and private sector indeveloping agricultural biotechnology. the research population included agriculturalbiotechnology experts in the public and private sectors (n=66). a series of in-depth interviewswere conducted with some biotechn...

Democratization, rising literacy, the advent of the information age, and increasing connectedness are resulting in unprecedented opportunities for public participation in public affairs. In addition to promoting transparency and demonstrating inclusiveness, public consultation enhances ownership and resonates with the increasingly common decentralization of responsibility for social services to...

public hospitals can privatize management activities by contracting with a private organization or person to perform the work. management contract is a method which uses private sector for major government projects like hospitals. this review study evaluated management contract conditions in selected countries. we focused on services under contract, different forms of management contract, metho...

Multiple stakeholders need to be taken into consideration when designing and implementing public sector services and processes. It will be asked in this article whether agent-oriented modeling could be beneficial to understand the interactions between these stakeholders and to support the design of proactive, user-friendly, and usable services of e-government. We propose a methodology for servi...

This project examines the impact of IT project alignment mechanisms on the development of computer systems for the delivery of contracted government services in a complex public/private sector inter-organizational environment. Improved theoretical understanding of IT and business alignment in multi-firm environments is essential for the effective delivery of a range of government services. We p...

After the private sector the public sector also tries to benefit from the advantages of electronic service delivery, in particular from lower costs and higher service quality. While more and more services are available electronically, residents‟ usage rates lag behind. But high usage rates and therefore a maximized potential target group, covering major parts of society, are essential prerequis...

High up on the agenda of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is the privatisation of education, health, welfare, social housing and transport. The WTO's aim is to extend the free market in the provision of traditional public services. Governments in Europe and the US link the expansion of trade in public services to economic success, and with the backing of powerful medico-pharmaceutical, insura...

“E-Government” is a mission-critical visionary issue faced by the public sector as it pushed the delivery of public services to a new quality standard through a new set of delivery means. However, many of the stakeholders found it hard to fully embrace this new mode of service delivery. Through the provision of e-services, stakeholders of government services expect that e-services can improve t...

Publicly funded family planning clinics serve millions of low-income women each year, providing a range of critical preventive services and enabling women to avoid unintended pregnancies. It is important to quantify the impact and cost-effectiveness of such services, in addition to these health benefits. Using a methodology similar to prior cost-benefit analyses, we estimated the numbers of uni...

The concept of electronic government has established as an effective mechanism for increasing government productivity and efficiency and a key enabler of citizen-centric services. In Gulf countries, public sector transformation efforts are focused towards increasing accessibility, availability, competitive advantage and enhancing services in civil administration. The Sultanate of Oman is one su...