Sexual exploitation and trafficking of the young and vulnerable has devastating consequences for their physical and emotional development, health, and well-being. The horrific treatment they suffer bears the hallmarks of evil made manifest. Governments have enacted laws pursuant to international treaties, conventions, and protocols. Nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are working...

Our paper applies new institutional economics theory to a unique data set of the world‘s low-income economies to examine the association between host governments‘ social policies and their ability to attract foreign direct investment. We add to this another new data set to explore the direct and indirect role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the business-society-government interface. ...

To achieve the vision of E-government organizations across the federal, state, and local government are challenged to improve efficiency and effectiveness, and to afford citizens the same access to information and services they have come to expect from E-business. E-government also has the potential to foster participation in governance. To achieve E-government objectives, leaders must collabor...

This study aims to determine how the decision-making style of women leaders in government organizations Manado City. Using a descriptive qualitative approach with type case study. Data collection is done through observation, interviews, and documents triangulation. analysis uses an interactive model from Miles Huberman. The results show that making decisions, female use normative rules as refer...

Local government organizations have recently been attracted to social media applications to improve services to their communities. Yet, limited scholarly attention has been devoted to understanding social media adoption across local government. This study addresses this shortcoming by exploring the factors that drive the adoption of social media within Australian local government. The findings ...

Many people and organizations need government information: the researcher trying to understand trends in education, the local charity documenting the need for senior housing, an engineering firm preparing an environmental impact statement, a sixth-grader writing a term paper about the history of her town. Increasingly, the information they need or prefer is in electronic form. Many different ki...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated framework to evaluate organizational e-government readiness for government organizations. This framework is necessary as current ones ignore challenges that arise due to organizational transformation issues stemming from diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). This study adopts an e-government framework to highlight t...

Electronic government (E-Government) is massive project uses the information and communication technologies (ICTs) to become more efficient and effective of government, facilitate more accessible government services, and make government more accountable to citizens. There are a range of challenges, difficulties, and problems facing the implementation of EGovernment project, and to be optimistic...