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Election watchdogs : transparency, accountability and integrity
\"Recent years have seen resurgent interest in the potential capacity of transparency - the public availability of information - to improve democratic governance. Timely, accurate, granular and freely-available information is generally regarded as intrinsically valuable, as well as having many instrumental benefits. In development, transparency and accountability is generally thought to help plug the leaky pipes of corruption and inefficiency, channel public spending more efficiently, and produce better services. In the field of electoral governance, openness about the rules and procedures, outcomes, and decisions processes used by electoral authorities is widely assumed to build public trust, improve policy-making, and facilitate accountability. In the age of WikiLeaks, Twitter and Google, open governance, expanding information and communication, often seems like an unqualified good. Nevertheless, beyond popular buzzword sloganeering, evidence suggests that the impact of transparency on the quality of governance and elections remains mixed. Transparency also has a dark side, threatening trust, privacy, and security. To understand these issues more fully, this book seeks to assess the contemporary drive towards open electoral governance and to identify several conditions predicted to determine the success of transparency policies in strengthening electoral integrity. Chapters look at transparency in electoral governance at the international and state levels, as well as within civil society\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Trust in the Ride Hailing Service of the Sharing Economy: The Roles of Legitimacy and Process Transparency
This paper examines the factors that influence customers’ trust in the ride hailing service (RHS). RHS faces legal, social, and safety concerns making trust critical in using RHS. Drawing on legitimacy and uncertainty reduction theories, we propose a theoretical framework of the antecedents of trust. We develop a survey instrument and collect data to empirically test the research model. The results reveal an association between the legitimacy of the service and customers’ trust in the service. Nonetheless, the different types of legitimacy vary in their effect on trust levels. We further show that process transparency positively affects trust in RHS. We discuss our findings and offer valuable theoretical and practical implications to the growing literature on trust in the sharing economy.
Journal Article
User Guide and Sensor Selection Guide for Process Transparency
The digital transformation of manufacturing requires an accurate measurement and analysis of process parameters to optimize efficiency, quality and cost control. This paper introduces a structured sensor selection cycle, providing a systematic approach for identifying relevant metrics, evaluating sensor technologies and integrating them into existing production systems. The proposed methodology enables companies to enhance process transparency, leading to data-driven decision-making and more flexible production strategies. Developed within the ZuPro2Flex research project, this framework offers practical guidance for aligning sensor technology with business model requirements.
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Benefits of visual management in construction: cases from the transportation sector in England
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the benefits of visual management (VM) systems in transportation construction projects in England.
Design/methodology/approach
Following a comprehensive literature review, the benefits of VM were investigated through action and case study research executed within two construction projects in England.
Findings
The main findings are: VM can contribute to increased self-management, better team coordination, better promises or an increasing plan percent complete, easier control for the management and improved workplace conditions in the transportation sector. It is important for the management to obtain the engagement of their workforce for VM through increased participation and show the actual benefits. However, managerial monitoring and control on the systems should not be underestimated.
Originality/value
The transportation sector in England has been systematically deploying Lean construction techniques in its operations for a while. One of those Lean techniques is a close-range visual communication strategy called VM. The literature on the VM implementation in construction is scarce and generally limited to the building construction context. This paper documents the benefits of VM systems for the transportation sector by using data captured through both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. The paper also identifies a set of recommendations for similar research efforts in the transportation context in the future.
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Customer Satisfaction in IS Projects: Assessing the Role of Process and Product Performance
Despite extensive research over the past several decades, assessing information system (IS) project success is still a challenging endeavor. While the traditional approach takes process performance (time and budget) and product performance (functional and non-functional requirements) into account, the contemporary perspective acknowledges the more comprehensive character of project success and emphasizes the criticality of stakeholder satisfaction. Continuing previous research, we propose and test a model with customer satisfaction as the uppermost criterion of IS project success and process performance and product performance as its determinants. Following recent calls for researchers to investigate the explicit linkage between success factors and success criteria, we also analyze the influence of process transparency on process and product performance. We conducted a survey via a questionnaire with IS experts in Germany. We contribute to a deeper understanding of IS project success by indicating that customer satisfaction is less a matter of time and budget and that a stronger emphasis should be placed on product performance. Moreover, our results illuminate the role of process transparency in IS projects showing that it contributes to both process and product performance.
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Transparency of law making and fiscal democracy in the Middle East
Fiscal democracy is the capacity of the legislature to make budgetary choices in response to the emerging needs of citizens. This study indicates that, in Middle Eastern countries, there are specific limitations to fiscal democracy in the process of law-making: most notably the lack of attention to financial impact assessments (FIAs). Without systematic FIAs, mandatory out-of-budget allocations are inadvertently included in public spending, as they do not require parliamentary approval within the regular budgeting process. The low level of effective citizens' engagement in the process of law-making worsens the situation. Budgetary decisions are not well informed by national priorities and preferences. This study utilizes the dataset of the Open Budget Index (OBI) to measure the quality of the law-making process of the budget law in a sample of Middle Eastern countries. The study concludes with recommendations on mapping the law-making process to increase budget transparency.
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Public participation in the budgetary process in the Republic of Croatia
The International Monetary Fund S fourth review of the Fiscal Transparency Code from 2014 sets out the principle of participation according to which the government must provide citizens with a brief, simple and easily understandable overview of the implications of all budgetary measures and with an opportunity to participate in the budgetary decision-making process. The Fiscal Transparency Code must be implemented in Croatia, which is an IMF member state, so this paper uses an interdisciplinary approach to point out the importance and economic effects of public participation in the budgetary process, identify the normative mechanisms of public participation in the budgetary process, and look into what they comprise of and whether they can help in achieving \"participation in budgetary decisionmaking\", as provided for by point 2.3.3. of the Code in Croatia. It is assumed that the Croatian legal system provides various normative mechanisms of public participation in the budgetary process, which enables the implementation of the participation principle set out in the Code. These mechanisms are, however, not specific to the budgetary process itself, but rather represent general normative mechanisms of public participation, which apply in the legislative process as well.
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Make Processes Transparent to Expose Waste
Making processes transparent is a prerequisite for sustainable and cost reduction. The purpose of process transparency is to let the processes speak to capture the ‘‘voice of the process.” This chapter discusses what that means, and two steps are recommended for achieving that goal. Company must use a supplier‐input‐process‐output‐customer (SIPOC) map to help scope the effort and create a value stream map (VSM) to capture the workflow in detail, along with relevant process data. The chapter focuses on the use of VSMs in the context of an identified project. Creating a value stream map will allow the company and top managements to understand which activities are happening, in what order, and at what levels of performance from end to end. Data monitoring will help to evaluate process performance in terms of throughput, cycle time, setup time, wait time, WIP waiting to be worked on, process downtime/uptime, defect/rework rates, and so on.
Book Chapter
M2M in Agriculture - Business Models and Security Issues
Machine-to-machine communication (M2M) is one of the major innovations in the ICT sector. Especially in agricultural business with heterogeneous machinery, diverse process partners and high machine operating costs, M2M offers large potential in process optimization. Within this paper, a concept for process optimization in agricultural business using M2M technologies is presented using three application scenarios. Within that concept, standardization and communication as well as security aspects are discussed. Furthermore, corresponding business models building on the presented scenarios are discussed and results from economic analysis are presented.
Machine-to-machine communication (M2M) is one of the major innovations in the ICT sector. Especially in agricultural business with heterogeneous machinery, diverse process partners and high machine operating costs, M2M offers large potential in process optimization. The application of M2M technology in agriculture is targeted by several other research groups. Moummadi et. al. present a model for an agricultural decision support system using both multi-agent-system and constraint programming. The systems purpose is controlling and optimizing water exploitation in greenhouses. The agricultural sector is characterized by heterogeneous machinery and diverse process partners. Problems arise from idle times in agricultural processes, suboptimal machine allocation and improper planning. Sensors in machines record different parameters such as position, moving speed, mass and quality of harvested produce. The data is visualized within the portal and helps the farmer to optimize business processes to meet documentation requirements or to build data-based business models.
Book Chapter
Process transparency for sustainable building delivery
The construction and operation of buildings have considerable impacts, accounting for more than one third of all material and energy flows worldwide. A greater market share of sustainable buildings, which seek to reduce the associated negative impacts, is an essential part of plans to address global problems such as energy and water shortages, and climate change. Proven strategies and technologies exist today for more sustainable buildings, yet a pressing need to improve their implementation remains. The processes for planning, designing, building and operating, or “delivering,” these sustainable buildings are often complex and unfamiliar to the stakeholders (e.g., owners, designers and constructors) whose collaboration is essential to sustainable solutions. In other industries, process transparency helps facilitate complex, unfamiliar processes by making situations; including status, goals and rules; visible to all stakeholders. This research revealed the possibility of cost savings for sustainable buildings through increased process transparency by comparing the delivery of recently completed sustainable building projects to hypothetical, “counterfactual,” delivery of the same projects with complete process transparency. Building on this finding, one strategy for enhancing process transparency was also studied. Process maps, which are visual aids for picturing work processes, were developed. Then, quizzes and surveys were used to study the influence of process mapping on transparency. Primary contributions of this research include a rigorous method for applying counterfactual analyses to project delivery, evidence that reduced costs for sustainable buildings are possible by increasing delivery process transparency, and evidence that process mapping may be considered as a method to enhance process transparency.
Dissertation