TY - JOUR
T1 - The role of management in open data initiatives in local governments
T2 - Opening the organizational black box
AU - Gasco-Hernandez, Mila
AU - Gil-Garcia, Jose Ramon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Previous studies have infrequently addressed the dynamic interactions among social, technical, and organizational variables in open government data initiatives. In addition, organization level models have neglected to explain the role of management in decision-making processes about technology and data. This article contributes to addressing this gap in the literature by analyzing the complex relationships between open government data characteristics and the organizations and institutions in which they are embedded. We systematically compare the open data inception and implementation processes, as well as their main results, in three Spanish local governments (Gava and Rubi in Catalonia and Gijon in Asturias) by using a model that combines the technology enactment framework with some specific constructs and relationships from the process model of computing change. Our resulting model is able to identify and explain the significant role of management in shaping and mediating different interactions, but also acknowledges the importance of organizational level variables and the context in which the open data initiative is taking place.
AB - Previous studies have infrequently addressed the dynamic interactions among social, technical, and organizational variables in open government data initiatives. In addition, organization level models have neglected to explain the role of management in decision-making processes about technology and data. This article contributes to addressing this gap in the literature by analyzing the complex relationships between open government data characteristics and the organizations and institutions in which they are embedded. We systematically compare the open data inception and implementation processes, as well as their main results, in three Spanish local governments (Gava and Rubi in Catalonia and Gijon in Asturias) by using a model that combines the technology enactment framework with some specific constructs and relationships from the process model of computing change. Our resulting model is able to identify and explain the significant role of management in shaping and mediating different interactions, but also acknowledges the importance of organizational level variables and the context in which the open data initiative is taking place.
KW - Environment
KW - Institutional arrangements
KW - Open data
KW - Organizational forms
KW - Process model of computing change
KW - Role of management
KW - Technology enactment framework
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85068163824&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.29379/jedem.v10i1.495
DO - 10.29379/jedem.v10i1.495
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068163824
SN - 2075-9517
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 22
JO - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government
JF - eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government
IS - 1
ER -