Whaling in the Antarctic–The ICJ Decision and its Consequences for Future Special Permit Whaling
In: Australian Year Book of International Law, Band 32
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In: Australian Year Book of International Law, Band 32
In: LGBT Youth and Media Cultures, Forthcoming
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In: The Australian yearbook of international law, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 87-96
ISSN: 2666-0229
In: Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, Band 23(1)
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In: Queer South Rising: Voices of a Contested Place, Reta Ugena Whitlock, ed., Information Age Publishing (March 19, 2013)
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In: Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation, Kathleen M. Ryan & Deborah A. Macey, eds., Lexington Books, April 2013
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In: African Americans on Television: Racing for Ratings, D. Leonard & L. Guerrero, Praeger, 2013
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In: Centre for Policy Studies, November 2013
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In: Centre for Policy Studies, 2013
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In: Journal of enterprise information management: an international journal, Band 25, Heft 6, S. 509-536
ISSN: 1758-7409
PurposeRecent changes in the UK political landscape have brought about cuts in public sector spending. Local authorities, in common with other public sector agencies, are required to make significant cost savings over the coming years. Procurement is an area of public sector administration characterised by considerable costs and inefficiency where the adoption of innovative technologies, such as e‐markets, can be deployed to effect significant costs savings. However, there are many barriers to the adoption of such technologies. The purpose of this paper is to explore and expound the factors that impede local authorities from adopting e‐markets and to present a learning opportunity for procurement managers and other stakeholders involved in technology adoption in local government and the wider public sector.Design/methodology/approachA case study based on in depth interviews with 17 senior level executives in e‐markets and local authorities on barriers to e‐market adoption in the local government sector is presented. The interviews were transcribed and subsequently coded and analysed using the qualitative data analysis software QSR N6.FindingsA number of factors (risk perception, knowledge deficits, trust, firm size, and organisational readiness) pertaining to Johnson's framework of e‐market adoption barriers were found to affect e‐market adoption and use in the local government sector. Importantly, the study also found factors that are idiosyncratic to the sector that impinged on e‐market adoption.Research limitations/implicationsThe scope of the study is limited to examining such barriers from a buy‐side local authority perspective, the findings of which may have implications for the adoption of e‐markets and other e‐procurement technologies in the wider public sector and beyond. The paper also makes a contribution to the literature on e‐market adoption by adding to the body of knowledge relating to institutional theory.Practical implicationsThe case study can help local authority and other public sector procurement managers, academic researchers, practitioners, consultants and other professionals involved in technology adoption better understand, and find practical ways to offset, the barriers that impinge on the adoption of e‐markets and other innovative technologies that can reduce costs within public sector organisations.Originality/valueE‐market adoption has the potential to realise a number of significant cost saving benefits within and between organisations. However, such benefits cannot be realised if there are barriers to their adoption and full utilisation. To date, research on the dynamics of e‐market adoption has largely focused on private sector enterprises with few studies examining this phenomenon in public sector environments. Therefore, e‐market adoption in the public sector has received limited attention in the literature over the past decade. This study examines, and provides empirical evidence of, barriers to e‐market uptake and usage in the local government sector in order to act as a starting point to creating better understanding of such barriers among academic and practitioner audiences.
In: Alcoholism treatment quarterly: the practitioner's quarterly for individual, group, and family therapy, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 367-370
ISSN: 1544-4538
In: Centre for Policy Studies, September 2012
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In: Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Band 11, Heft 4
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In: Queer Love in Film and Television, Pamela Demory and Christopher Pullen, eds., Palgave, April 2013
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In: Centre for Policy Studies, 2011
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